A couple interesting dishes

Yesterday (August 18th), we were kicking around one of the many huge malls here while waiting for our movie to start (Inception, it was awesome) and we decided to try a couple local dessert treats.

First a billboard caught my eye for a drink called chendol, it looked very brightly colored and tasty. The layers of the drink are as follows: shaved ice with molasses, lots of coconut milk, kidney beans, cooked black beans, weird lime green jelly things, followed by lots more shaved ice and more molasses. Needless to say, we were thrown off a bit by the beans being added. Once we tried it though, it turned out to be some what tasty, in a sweet and coconutty sort of way, but mostly just weird. I would probably not get it again.

While I was finishing the chendol, Kaela had had enough and went to try something different. She picked out a fruit sago. This turned out to be a much better choice. It also is based on shaved ice with coconut milk, but had delicious fruit on top instead of kidney beans. We both agree that we would order sago again and possibly try some of the other flavours as well.