Snack Time?
Jun 16th, 2007 by Alvin Chong
Ahhh, this is the best time to do some food post since I am still quite full. At least the things I post won’t make me salivate that much. Anyway, when you are in Kuching, and you feel a little hungry, and you want some snack. What do you do? Simple, you go for this!
What do you call that? We call it ang tau chendol (Red bean chendol in English). It’s a thirst reliever, so cold and sinfully delicious, yet so refreshing.
I know, I know, you have this anywhere else, but, I’ll still stick to the Sarawak version of this thing.
For those who don’t already know what this is, it’s a drink basically comprising of red beans and the greenish jelly which we call the chendol. Depending on stalls and creativity, it could also feature some other things like chin chao or even other kind of jellies. I’ll stick to the original anyway.
It is important that the red bean is properly prepared or else the drink tastes like crap. One bite into the bean and you don’t feel like eating the beans anymore. Properly prepare the beans like the above and you get a very nice drink.
It is then topped with smoothly blended ice. The ice is then poured with milk or coconut milk, and I’ll go for the former although many would prefer the latter.
Oh, you can even add gula melaka to make it even tastier! Those who haven’t tried, this is a must try.
Of course, you can always order some salad yew char kuey to compliment your already delicious drink. The one by this particular stall I went to is just average in taste. I prefer those made by some other stalls.
A bit of Lok Lok also wouldn’t hurt. Basically it’s a mixture of a variety of sinfully fried fishballs, prawn crackers (heh pia), keladi, ubi and even hotdogs if you would.
Down all of that with the drink and you’d wonder why you didn’t think of having this earlier on for snack. Go on, have a go at it. It’s that nice!
i presume they use white sugar for the chendol? The one in Penang are served with palm sugar/gula melaka + coconut milk
Chen: They don’t use white sugar I think. They normally use milk and some other flavours. They probably use white sugar, which I am unaware of. In Kuching, they do use gula melaka and coconut milk as well.
Wow, my saliva keeps dropping……
MonkeyWong: haha, go eat la if it makes you saliva drip…