This month has been one of the hottest in Singapore’s weather history, and a bowl of refreshing chendol sounds like just the thing to cool down in this sweltering heat.
One of the little-known spots to get Penang-style cendol is Ye Tang, a stall that is tucked away in an obscure corner at Beauty World Food Centre. It has a signboard boasting “absolutely authentic chendol.”
It serves only this dessert, which has shaved ice drizzled with gula melaka syrup and coconut milk, topped with pandan jelly worms – usually house-made – and kidney beans. But the variations offered here are surprisingly uncommon for a cendol stall.
(Photo: 8Days/Yip Jieying)
UNUSUAL TOPPINGS
On an unbearably hot day recently, 8days.sg ordered a simple bowl of the classic cendol (S$2) with just attap seeds and pandan jelly toppings at Ye Tang. The staff manning the stall skillfully tried to upsell us pricier options like the red bean version (S$2.50), which we initially declined.
“How about adding grass jelly?” she persisted. Now, that piqued our interest, because grass jelly wasn’t on the menu. We typically only get to enjoy this combination in Indonesia, where cendol toppings have more variety and include jackfruit.
So we topped up 60 cents for the grass jelly. Instead of mashed little cubes, our grass jelly came in large sheets like dessert chain Nine Fresh. Interesting.
Our S$2.60 off-menu chendol combo (Photo: 8Days/Yip Jieying)
And it looks like chilled grass jelly was a good choice – its soothing, cooling properties made our bowl of cendol even more refreshing.
The finely-shaved ice, generously draped in thick, fragrant gula melaka syrup and rich coconut milk is also very good with the (two) plump attap seeds and cendol jelly worms, which has a strong pandan flavour and kueh-like texture that gives this dessert a homemade quality.
Funnily enough, we don’t remember Ye Tang, which has been around for a few years, to be this good when we had it a while back. But it looks like they have improved, and are now the MVP of the hawker centre by keeping everyone cool and hydrated in this weather.
DURIAN CENDOL
Other than grass jelly and red bean, the stall also offers reasonably-priced durian cendol (S$3.80), which comes with a scoop of durian pulp. Or you can go for an ice kachang hybrid with the creamy corn cendol (S$2.50).
(Photo: Facebook/Ye Tang Chendol)
Ye Tang is at #04-26 Beauty World Food Centre, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, S588177. Tel: 9099-2289. Open Wed-Sun, 11am-8.45pm. Facebook, Instagram
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One of the little-known spots to get Penang-style cendol is Ye Tang, a stall that is tucked away in an obscure corner at Beauty World Food Centre. It has a signboard boasting “absolutely authentic chendol.”
It serves only this dessert, which has shaved ice drizzled with gula melaka syrup and coconut milk, topped with pandan jelly worms – usually house-made – and kidney beans. But the variations offered here are surprisingly uncommon for a cendol stall.
(Photo: 8Days/Yip Jieying)
UNUSUAL TOPPINGS
On an unbearably hot day recently, 8days.sg ordered a simple bowl of the classic cendol (S$2) with just attap seeds and pandan jelly toppings at Ye Tang. The staff manning the stall skillfully tried to upsell us pricier options like the red bean version (S$2.50), which we initially declined.
“How about adding grass jelly?” she persisted. Now, that piqued our interest, because grass jelly wasn’t on the menu. We typically only get to enjoy this combination in Indonesia, where cendol toppings have more variety and include jackfruit.
So we topped up 60 cents for the grass jelly. Instead of mashed little cubes, our grass jelly came in large sheets like dessert chain Nine Fresh. Interesting.
Our S$2.60 off-menu chendol combo (Photo: 8Days/Yip Jieying)
And it looks like chilled grass jelly was a good choice – its soothing, cooling properties made our bowl of cendol even more refreshing.
The finely-shaved ice, generously draped in thick, fragrant gula melaka syrup and rich coconut milk is also very good with the (two) plump attap seeds and cendol jelly worms, which has a strong pandan flavour and kueh-like texture that gives this dessert a homemade quality.
Funnily enough, we don’t remember Ye Tang, which has been around for a few years, to be this good when we had it a while back. But it looks like they have improved, and are now the MVP of the hawker centre by keeping everyone cool and hydrated in this weather.
DURIAN CENDOL
Other than grass jelly and red bean, the stall also offers reasonably-priced durian cendol (S$3.80), which comes with a scoop of durian pulp. Or you can go for an ice kachang hybrid with the creamy corn cendol (S$2.50).
(Photo: Facebook/Ye Tang Chendol)
Ye Tang is at #04-26 Beauty World Food Centre, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, S588177. Tel: 9099-2289. Open Wed-Sun, 11am-8.45pm. Facebook, Instagram
This story was originally published in 8Days.
For more 8Days stories, visit https://www.8days.sg
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