The Overshadowed Ais Kacang
Now remember the cendol on the second makan-ing and how we ordered the ais kacang too but didn't feature it ? Well this is for the Ais Kacang. As we were sitting on our bikes devouring the marvelous blue small bowl of sweet cold cendol, the second art piece for out Galleries/stomach was the Ais Kacang. Given unto us was a bowl filled with fairy tales and dreams. It was bowl with the colours you'd get in that expensive colour pencil set you really wanted as a child but was given instead the old unsharpened colour pencils of your siblings. Fairy tales could have been written from its looks and poems could have been written from it.
Red beans are red,
Agar jelly is green,
Will you be my bowl of sweetness ?
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| The Luigi of the shaven ice dessert. |
Let's put looks aside now and focus on the inside, the taste of it. The bowl of Ais Kacang was made with shaven ice topped with red beans, agar jelly, grass jelly, nata de coco and sweet corn. The finishing blow was coconut milk and red syrup was drizzled on it like honey on pancakes. The bowl as you can see is filled to the rim. The texture a mixture of softness from the condiments coupled together with the crunchy ice forming a unity of texture. It had a rather pleasant smell like flowers blooming in spring. What I had gotten was a sugary taste that melts in my mouth but at most it didn't excite me to want more. It was good the first few bites but it felt heavy with every bite. It was like a date with a girl/guy that was fairy tale almost at first but failed to deliver in the end.
Ais Kacang and cendol are brothers to each other but like all families siblings can overshadow each other out of competitiveness. This Ais Kacang happens to be the one being overshadowed. It is the Luigi of the Mario bros. Its taste cannot outshine its brother and it cannot leave a strong mark on its victim. Its presentation however still remain unchallenged by the cendol. There were some positives in it, its presentation and its sweetness if you have a sweet tooth and its portion for it only cost an extra 50 sens more than the cendol.
Makan meter: 5
Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul
George Town
10100 George Town
Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Opens from 11am - 6pm
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