Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Thong yip" in English language version.
Guimard's most famous confections are phoi thong (golden fluff, originally Portuguese de ovos), thong yip (pick-up gold), thong yod (gold droplets), and med khanun, which resembles jackfruit seed.
It is these sweets, created by Christian nuns, that would become the traditional Thai desserts known as tong yip (golden balls), tong yod (golden drops) and foy tong (golden threads). The desserts were brought to Siam courtesy of Maria Guyomar de Pinha, a Bengali-Portuguese-Japanese woman who was eventually enslaved in the kitchens of the usurper king Phetracha following the Siamese Revolution of 1688.
