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Re: OT: Chinese (& the Pearl Drink Invasion)

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Thursday, January 29, 2004, 21:46
>Victor, the radically insane, says:
>I loved the "ais kacang" when I was in Singapore. It had those doughy >green blobs in it. In the Philippines, there is some similar Ice-Dessert- >for-the-Masses called "halo-halo" (literally, "mix-mix"), which has ice, >milk, sweet beans, custard (leche flan), nata de coco (coconut jelly),
Child, you sick.
>ube >(mashed purple yam), among other things.
That'd be "taro". Taro stuff is nasty no matter what medium is involved. Purple yam kinda says it all.
>There is a similar "dezaato" in >Japan too; beautiful plastic look-alike forever-fresh incarnations are >displayed in front of the restaurants.
There *is* hope with "dezaato". Azuki beans are nasty. "Bing" or "koori" are good if you know the toppings to select. "Wu mei" in Taiwan totally rock. Kou

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