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jmdict 2647860 Active (id: 1098242)
龍須糖
りゅうのひげ
1. [n] {food, cooking}
▶ Dragon's beard candy
▶ Chinese cotton candy
▶ [expl] Chinese pastry, similar to Turkish pishmaniye or Persian pashmak (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside)
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1823720 竜の髭 1. dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus)



History:
4. A 2012-05-25 23:16:12  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2012-05-24 17:48:17  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
en:WP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_beard_candy
  Comments:
* Idiomatic names (as per WP)
* [fld=food], [expl] tags
* better wording on expl
  Diff:
@@ -13,1 +13,4 @@
-<gloss>Chinese pastry, similar to baklava (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside)</gloss>
+<field>&food;</field>
+<gloss>Dragon's beard candy</gloss>
+<gloss>Chinese cotton candy</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">Chinese pastry, similar to Turkish pishmaniye or Persian pashmak (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside)</gloss>
2. A 2011-07-17 06:28:41  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2011-07-16 15:26:56  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
This is a Chinese loan-word, hence the weird characters/readings (more idiomatic would be 竜の髭, which is used for the eponymous grass).

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