Favourite Local Desserts
2011-07-08
With this kind of hot weather in Singapore, how do we cool down? With ice cold desserts, of course! Here are the five of our most favourite ice cold desserts we just love to enjoy:
1. Cheng Tng
This Cantonese dessert is a light and sweet soup, served either hot or cold. It was originally a herbal soup meant to ‘cool’ the body down so you would find barley, lotus seeds, honey dates, dried longan inside the soup. Now as a dessert, you can even find lychee, sago, white fungus or even jelly in it.

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2. Bobo Chacha
This is a Nyonya dessert with many variations but typically it is served with colourful soft cubes of sweet potato or yam in a sweet coconut milk base, sometimes with sago. There is also a tapioca jelly which is chewy to provide some textural contrast in the dessert.

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3. Chendol
This is an Indonesian cold dessert which takes its name from the neon green pandan-flavoured starch strips, also served in coconut milk base, sometimes with gula melaka and red beans, and topped off with shaved ice. There are some local variants that add in ice-cream or even durian.

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4. Ice Kacang
This Malaysian dessert, literally meaning red bean ice, is basically just a towering mound of finely shaved ice, previously shaved by hand using a machine in the olden days but now it is all motorised. Nowadays you will find a lot more than just shaved ice and red beans, hawkers typically add attap chee, multicoloured syrups, and agar-agar to provide more variety to it.

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5. Frozen Yogurt
A recent addition to the dessert scene in Singapore, frozen yogurt, or ‘froyo’ as it is colloquially called, is simply normal yogurt that has been frozen to give it a texture that is similar to ice-cream. Healthier than normal ice-cream because it’s mostly yogurt and milk is used instead of cream, frozen yogurt has fast become a popular hit among the young in Singapore.

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