On a hot day, sometimes I crave for ais kacang , the brightly coloured, sweet Malaysian dessert made of shaved ice, red beans and an assortment of other ingredients. The dessert has been around for a long time. Said to have existed around the time before and after the First World War, it originally contained only shaved ice and red bean: hence its name, ais kacang which mean bean ice. Today. With different ingredients like grass jelly, agar-agar, peanuts etc added, it is conveniently called ABC, acronym for air batu campur, meaning mixed ice. I had this with fried rice for lunch one hot afternoon:
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