Yellow Lump otherwise also known as yellow rock sugar is another important ingredient for the 'Arh Perng' sauce. It is basically a solidified/crystallised mixture of honey, refined and unrefined sugar.
I personally prefer using rock sugar because it has a much more delicate and 'unprocessed' flavour. Rock sugar also adds to the sauce having a sumptuous gloss and 'ooomph'.
Nostalgia might be another reason I love this sugar. As a child, my mum used to put rock sugar into dishes like 'Kong Ba Bao' and birds nest. I would always sneak some little lumps and really enjoy sucking on them while I watched T.V. And then my mum would shout, "Zhe mer fei hai chi tang!" [meaning: So fat still eat sugar!]
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