Choice Morsel Samples Icy Cold Sweets: Part 3, ABC Ice Kachang

After years of sampling shaved ice treats from all across Asia, I still find ABC Ice Kachang to be thoroughly exotic. 

This Malaysian concoction includes some of the usual suspects I've discussed these passed few weeks, shaved ice and red beans, but features something you won't find in other shaved ice desserts, palm sugar syrup. Palm sugar's distinctive flavor recalls maple syrup, but tastes really nothing like it, though both are technically sap from their respective trees.

At Malay Satay Hut in Seattle's International District ABC Ice Kachang (ABC is an acronym for air batu campur which means mixed ice) is served up in an enormous bowl that's been filled with shaved ice and then topped with red kidney beans, corn kernals, palm seeds and peanuts. Their ABC is finished off with th coconut palm syrup as well as evaporated milk.

What a concoction! Achingly sweet and incredibly refreshing, ABC Ice Kachang is more than treat, it's a trip to the exotic in every spoonful.

Beat the heat with shaved ice treats from all over Asia--but found in and around the Puget Sound. Have you already tried Filipino halo-halo and Korean bingsu? Don't miss a single one of these sweet sensations. Stay tuned for our final installment.