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.