Blowing sugar is a traditional folk art in China that becomes more and more difficult to find in the city. The artists use a mouth blowing technique to create various kinds of figures out of molten sugar, like animals or flowers. First the artist forms a small tube that is closed on one end. Then he starts to blow into the open end of the tube to get the fudge-like mass of sugar into shape. For this to work, the temperature of the sugar is crucial. If too high, the figure wil