I am an actual adult woman (debatably mature for 40 years old) and yet I still feel genuinely giddy when I see the light, crispy, gooey, marshmallowy treats on a snack table at a party or bake sale. They’re a treat for all ages, and Katarina Su knows it. She even launched a business around it—Kaisu Bakehouse.
Su previously ran a dumpling pop-up in Atlanta, Georgia, but when it had run its course, she decided to try her hand at something a little sweeter. And who doesn’t like Rice Krispies treats?
“I just thought it was something that was pretty unique,” she explains. In Atlanta, there isn’t as much Asian food or even as many Asian-inspired offerings out there. (Remember we are blessed with Convoy District’s abundance, lest we take it for granted.) So she decided to showcase some of her favorite Taiwanese flavors from her own childhood, plus a few others, onto a familiar canvas—like black sesame, White Rabbit (a chewy milk-based candy popular in China), strawberry Pocky (Japanese snack sticks), and mango sticky rice…