Gui Ling Gao

Gui Ling Gao was also known as Tortoise Jelly or Turtle Jelly, is a jelly like chinese medicine, also sold as a dessert. It was traditionally made from the powdered plastron (bottom shell) from the turtle cuora trifasciata (commonly known as "three lined box turtle", or "golden coin turtle") and a variety of herbal products, in particular, china roots smilax glabra (tu fu ling). Although the golden coin turtle is commercially farmed in modern china, it is extremely expensive. Therefore even when turtle derived ingredients are used in commercially available Gui Ling Gao, they come from other, more commonly available, turtle species.

If you have never tasted Gui Ling Gao before, it tastes a bit herbal. You can select hot or cold. If you are afraid of herbal taste, then go for the cold one. It basically has a jelly texture. If you like sweet, you can add honey over it. It is nice, lighter and smoother when you are eating it.

Mango Snow Ice

This snow ice dessert that you can find it at Chinatown Mei Heong Yuen Dessert.

Snow ice is made by mixing up ice cream, essentially, then freezing it into very hard cylindrical blocks. These blocks are then loaded into a special machine that spins the cylinder and shaves off the bottom layer of ice cream in tissue paper thin ribbons. A server holds a plate under the machine catching and arranging the folds of ice cream as they fall. Traditional shaved ice is made by grinding ice, then flavoring it with fruit syrups or condensed milk, snow ice starts out closer to ice cream.

Flavorings such as green tea or chocolate are mixed into a base of milk and water, then frozen into cylindrical blocks that look like giant candles. Durian snow ice with durian puree, mocha snow ice paired with red beans and chendol snow ice topped with candied red beans, green jelly and doused in gula melaka sauce.

They have a lot of different snow ice flavors like manga, green tea, durian, soursop, sesame, almond, strawberry, mocha, chocolate, peanut, lime, lychee, watermelon & lychee, almond & sesame, chendol, banana choc, mango & strawberry, sweet corn.

I recommend this mango snow ice is because they slices it off in sheets and thin enough that they melt in your mouth, much like cotton candy and it is very delicious. It cost about $5 to $6.

Ah Balling

Ah Balling is also know as Tang Yuan is a Teochew Chinese Dessert. It comprises glutinous rice balls served in a hot sweet soup, such as peanut soup or even ginger soup. Each rice ball contains a sweet paste made from lotus seed, red bean, black sesame, ground peanuts or yam. They are cooked in hot water for a few minutes. The soup is made from rock suger and pandan leaves. Ah Balling is a sweet dessert, perfect for anyone who has a sweet tooth.

There are 3 type of soup that is served with Ah Balling. They are plain, ginger and peanut soup. All of them are cooked with pandan leaves and rock sugar. The rice balls should be soft and tender with a little bit of bite when you break it open with your teeth.

Ice Kachang

Ice Kachang was a common sight in the 1950s and 1960s. Ice Kachang is deliciously that can be in Singapore at food centres and hawker center. It is good to have Ice Kachang on the hot sunny day when you are at outside work or school and you can go buy Ice Kachang to eat.

I eating the Ice Kachang, I scoop it and put it into my mouth, the shaved ice is watering with the coloured syrups in my mouth. I also scoop and eat the red beans, sweet corn and attap chee into my mouth. It cost about $1.00 to $2.00 for the Ice Kachang.

The ingredients of Ice kachang include comprising jelly, red beans, sweet corn, attap chee as its base and shaved ice, coloured syrups and condensed milk. Other ingredients such as durian might also be included.

Cendol

Cendol is a deliciously and refreshing dessert that can be found in Singapore at restaurants and at most food centers. It is a traditional dessert that was sold on the 60s through the 80s. It is just perfect for hot weather in Singapore because now a days Singapore is so hot and you can go buy cendol to eat or drink.

When I eating the cendol, I scoop it into my mouth and the shaved ice is soft with the grass jelly noodles with pandan flavouring in my mouth. For cendol drink is like normal cendol but when I drink it I also can scoop it up the red beans and green jelly noodles with pandan flavouring to eat. It cost about $1.50 to $2.00 for the cendol.

The ingredients of cendol include coconut milk, green starched jelly noodles with pandan flavouring, shaved ice and palm sugar. Other ingredients such as red beans, glutinous rice, grass jelly, corn and durian might also be included.

Introduction

Hello. My name is Hong Yang this is my blog posts and this is about desserts that can be found in Singapore, I will be posting reviews of some desserts in Singapore. Please feel free to comment on my blog posts or any suggestions of the posts on the desserts.