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 | pashmak (today's sample record)

Language: Persian

Description: One website describes this as Persian fairy floss and, when we ate this at Moro, we were told that it was saffron candyfloss (US: cotton candy). It is spun sugar and may be flavoured in various ways.



| Pashmak as served at wonderful Moro in Clerkenwell in London |
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Pronounced: PASH-mak
Ethnicity: Persian
Most frequent country: Iran |