Try me…

The people here…

…requested to be added as my friend on Facebook and invited me to drop by and give their cendol a try.

Their stall is located at this food court/hawker centre…

…right across the road from the primary school in the vicinity…

Gee! If my girl could get her transfer here, it certainly would be very convenient for me to come here on a more regular basis.

A friend kept asking me to drop by on weekends for the karaoke…

…sessions but I have yet to do so. I understand that the proceeds will go to charity – in aid of some orphans, if I am not mistaken.

So how was the cendol?…

…I asked for the one with pulut (glutinous rice) and when I shared the photograph on Facebook, a Malay friend of mine commented that she would prefer the Chinese ones. Gee!!! I did not know there would be any difference…but come to think of it, it seems that there is.

I’ve tried the ones at some Malay shops and stalls but none tickled my fancy especially those that added rose syrup to the shaved ice – I cannot stand the smell/taste. Thankfully, they did not do that here but they used evaporated milk and gula apong (our local nipah palm sugar) – I prefer santan (coconut milk) and gula Melaka (palm sugar).

I would say that taken as it was, it was nice and refreshing…

…especially on the very hot days that we are experiencing right now and the pulut was good, something like what you would get in those ketupat lemak,  but they would need to do something about the red beans – they were hard. I did cook some the other day and I had to soak the beans overnight and cook them for some three hours or so…before it was soft enough but still not quite the way I like them, mushy but still whole.

The RAJA CENDOL stall is located at the DEWAN MUC FOOD COURT/HAWKER CENTRE (2.313658, 111.825056) along Jalan Jasmin, off Jalan Bandong, more or less opposite the primary school there, on your left if you turn left into that road from Bandong Walk.