US dazzled by Chinese traditional arts

Sugar drawing, paper cutting and dough modeling are brought across the Pacific

BOCA RATON, Florida - In a booth at Sunset Cove Amphitheater, a huge outdoor venue in Boca Raton, Li Jun, in his traditional Tang suit, was drawing a dragon in caramel on his iron pad.

With a spoon in hand, he swirled his wrist, carefully contouring this auspicious creature, before pressing a bamboo stick on it and shoveling the whole thing off the pad. Complicated as the dragon shape appeared to be, it took Li only about three minutes to finish.