August 23, 2005
杨枝甘露
To my delight two weekends ago, I discovered that there's a dessert stall in Chinatown that sells my favourite HK dessert.
Located at the New Bridge Road end of Temple Street, 味香园甜品 (Wei Xiang Yuan Desserts) serves all the different cream pastes which I love.
The one featured below is 花生糊 (peanut cream paste). A bowl goes for $2 and $2.50 if you're taking away. This was pretty good. The paste was thick, creamy and smooth. They also sell steamed egg pudding (燉蛋), another typical Cantonese dessert.
But my favourite on a hot day is 杨枝甘露 as shown below. Oh, I first had this in HK and it was so heavenly on a hot summer's day. This cold dessert has mango puree with small cubes of mango and generous bits of pomelo thrown in. In HK, I had one version with cubes of watermelon and shaved ice thrown in as well. That was SO good. I think shaved ice is better than the cubes of ice as shown in the one below.
This one was going for $3 per bowl. The shop's really raking in good money going by the constant stream of customers. I think I should consider setting up one of these HK desserts outlets around in Singapore!
Posted by DSD at August 23, 2005 9:00 AMoh i so definitely have to go try this! The liang seah street one doesnt do many cold desserts...
Posted by: olduvai at August 23, 2005 11:14 AMWow, i know this stall thru' a friends 2 years back and has been a loyal fan since then! I always go with a few friends and we will order everything and share among, imagine our stomachs with hot and cold dessert together, playing rhythmn!
Posted by: Jenny Lim at August 23, 2005 1:57 PMI love 杨枝甘露. I did not know the temple street dessert shop sells it too. Have to give it a try soon. Usually get my fix from Hui Lau Shan.
Posted by: ST at August 23, 2005 2:37 PMIs it as good as HK's? I suspect that for $3, it can't possibly as good as HK's.
Posted by: kuponuts at August 23, 2005 7:32 PMThat is also my fav dessert now.
Posted by: D W at August 26, 2005 2:18 AMDo they have the black sesame seed paste? That's my absolute favourite back in HK. Nice to have it warm on a winter day with small glutinous rice balls floating around. yum!
Posted by: celiaK at August 27, 2005 12:03 AMyes, they have the black sesame seed paste. Yeah, i know what you mean by having it warm on a winter's day! :)
Posted by: dsd at August 27, 2005 10:38 AM