With a background in soap-making, Huynh found it easy to mix the colors into alluring shades that resemble crystals, and found the hands-on carving of the candies to be a fun creative outlet.Īlissa Miky, the founder of Misaky Tokyo, had a much different entrance into crystal candy crafting. Although she could sometimes find it at Vietnamese grocery stores, she decided to try making it herself. Huynh would only get to indulge in the candy once a year, but when she moved to the states in 2016, she found herself fondly remembering-and craving-the treat. “I’m not a very sweets person, but this was the only treat I loved to eat during the new year.” Mứt rau câu is typically served for Têt, or Vietnamese New Year, and Huynh would help her family prepare a tray of treats that included the crystal candy, which was her favorite. “This is something that I used to make with my grandma and mom when I still lived in Vietnam,” explains Gia Huynh, founder of crystal candy company, Silky Gem. Made from a base of agar agar and sugar, crystal candy-known as kohakutou in Japanese and mứt rau câu in Vietnamese-is gaining popularity on TikTok and Etsy. If, like me, you’ve ever had intrusive thoughts about eating crystals, there is no better time than now to try out crystal candy. What I personally can’t stop thinking about, however, is how delicious they look. Their homes are decorated with pointy rose quartz and hexagons of calcite, and they massage their faces with jade gua sha tools.įinding healing through cooled magma is fine by me-I understand the fixation with such beautiful objects in colorful shades of pink, purple, and aquamarine. Suddenly I know people who harness energy from precious gems on chains looped around their necks or placed on top of their foreheads. I’m not sure when exactly crystals became such a huge part of the zeitgeist.
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