As the temperature gets warmer....eat something cold!
As an Americanized Chinese girl born in the US, I would have chosen frozen yogurt or an ice cream sundae any day/night of the week. Lately, my experience and time spent in asia has made me question my choices for sweets more carefully. After my almost 9 month stint in hong kong, I have grown to really like Cantonese desserts and even crave them at times. This next feature is no exception.
Shaved Ice- The Taiwanese call it 刨冰 in pin yin bao bing, in Korean it is known as 빙수 or bingsu for its phoenetic pronunciation, ais kacang in malay or “abc “ for short.
However, no matter where you find this sweet, it is always created the same way; a large mound of shaved ice filled with toppings like jellies, red bean, tapioca, black pearls, condensed milk, fruit, coconut….etc etc…
This particular establishment in hong kong I visited uses the same concept as the traditional shaved ice in shape but chooses to embark on the new and modern approach for “bean curd textured shaved ice” as can be read about in a previous entry of this blog while mixing and matching western and eastern toppings like lychee jelly and banana or krispy cereal and kiwi.
Here are 3 particular flavors that I have tried:
a) Horlicks- which is a powder that is made into a malt beverage made popular in hong kong and can resemble the taste of ovaltine. – with wheat, strawberries, sweet dumplings, and crystal jelly.
b) Chocolate- with marshmallows, lychee jelly, and banana
c) Peanut- with sweet dumplings, kiwi, and krispy cereal of some form.
Cheers! and happy eating!
2 comments:
That looks really good. Did you order all 3 of those flavors just to take pics of them? LoL...
When I was in HK, I went to this place: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=51998857&l=cf5e6c90ac&id=1905981
It was really good, but my desserts were probably not as sweet as your shaved ice.
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