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

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:45:01 -0500, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>In Java, at least, there's something called "cendol" with little
>rice-grain-like multicolored thingies, in a base I think of coconut milk,
>water? and LOTS of sugar.  Personal opinion:  icky.

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), ube
(mashed purple yam), among other things.  There is a similar "dezaato" in
Japan too; beautiful plastic look-alike forever-fresh incarnations are
displayed in front of the restaurants.

--Viktor





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