A fellow foreign teacher -- who was also an abrasive idiot -- once told me "Chinese people don't like eating sweet things." In his defense, he spent a lot of his overseas teaching career in places like Hunan, and the food is extremely spicy over there. Yet, China is a very large country, and the regional cuisines all differ. The food in Jiangsu is not the same as the food in Hunan. Not all Jiangsu food is alike, either. Changzhou, Wuxi, and Suzhou are all into sweet flavors to varying degrees. Recently, I have trying some of the local specialties, because eating, after all, is a good way to learn both a culture and a language. So, here are two fundamentally similar items. 

This first one is 芝麻糖  Zhīma táng. Let's break down the characters here. . .

芝麻 Zhīma -- Seasame seed 

糖 táng -- candy / sweet / sugar

The product inside the box looks like this.

And when you bite into it, it looks like this. 

It's basically hardened sugar at the center with an outer coating of sesame seeds.  There is a similar variant here locally. 

The actual product as opposed to the picture on the box ...

This one is 寸金糖  Cùn jīn táng. Breaking down the Chinese characters goes like this....

寸Cùn -- very little

金 jīn -- gold

糖 táng -- candy / sweet / sugar

Essentially, it's the same thing as the first product pictured. They taste exactly the same. Only, this one is bite sized. Actually, I prefer the smaller size. It's just a preference. It's easier to controll portions and how much you eat. Both are hard and crunchy, and both have a tendency to stuck in my teeth. I do like how the sweetness is under control. Some foods in this region are too sweet, but zhima tang and cun jin tang do not fall into that category.