Ice-kachang Quest

Ice-kachang, also known as Air Batu Campur (ABC), is a refreshing Malaysian dessert made of shaved ice with a variety of beans (kachang), slivers of jelly, creamed corn, seeds of attap palms (attap-chi), etc all topped of with various coloured syrups and evaporated milk. Every stall has their own version and no two are exactly alike, even from the same stall, depending on the mix of ingredients used and portions of them.

My grandmother is on a never-ending quest for the perfect Ice-kachang based on her memory of a particularly good one she had about 20 years ago in Kajang. Up and down the Malay Peninsula not one yet has matched that pinnacle. Too sweet, or the beans are a bit hard, or there's too much artificial flavouring in the syrup, or there is not enough corn. And the flaw is revealed.

Another one falls by the wayside... half finished. Too pink I suppose.