1.   Add the spices to the boiling syrup, turn off the heat, and add the vanilla bean, orange zest, lemongrass and ginger.

2.   Combine dumpling ingredients and drop by teaspoon into boiling syrup.

3.   Working quickly, pour boiling syrup over nut-fruit mixture, mixing until thoroughly incorporated and evenly coated.

4.   Young boys drive donkey carts, carry boxes in sweatshops and stir vats of boiling syrup in candy factories.