12 April 2014

Ice kachang (ABC ice)

It is not easy to find a good Malaysian shop selling good authentic Malaysia/Singapore food here in Sydney. While you can get many Hogkong cafe/restaurants trying to mimic or recreate our national dishes, they just turns out not the same. (Some can be really aweful that you wonder if they had ever tried the real thing in the first place)

Our recent favourite place for Malaysia cravings fix is at PappaRich! Thank God there is a shop here at Chatswood. There are always a long queue outside the restaurant at peak times, however, the turnover rate is fast (Malaysian efficiency). We also love the fact that they do not allow hoarding up of table if not more than 3/4 of the people for the table had arrived. In hk culture, they love sending 1-2 'representatives' to hoard tables in restaurants, while the rest of the people take their time to arrive (which may sometimes takes hours). 

Eric and I loved their Char Kuey Tiao, while other dishes of Nasi Lemak, Nasi Briyani, Chicken rice.... Are more of my favourite as Eric did not grow up eating them. (Understandable) 

We ordered ice kachang as our dessert one night, and I was very surprised to find my ice kachang to look like this:


Well, looks can be deceiving, it may still taste great, right? 

But as I look closely, I saw peanuts n Rasins?!!

Oh my, that was the first time I had that combinations in my ice kachang. As I dig deeper to find my treasure (they are normally hidden below the tower of shaved ice), I realised that what was missing was the must have adap chee. >_< WHY?!!

It is very disappointing, but I guess the only consolation is the richly covered syrup that drowns the shaved ice. Sad... No adap chee.

What is your favourite topping on the ice kachang?

Kcan

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