Meaning of ice kachang | Babel Free

Definitions

A dessert made from crushed ice with syrup and jelly poured on top.

Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable

Examples

“ONE ICE KACHANG FIVE SPOONS PLEASE Ice Kachang is something children in Singapore love, especially to cool off in the hot humid weather of Singapore. It is made up of ice shavings and boiled sweetened red beans and green jelly and sweet syrup drips on the mountain of ice shavings.”

“Another favourite is 'Ice Kachang' (a dessert made from ice shavings combined with various syrups and fruits). The ice kachang man would wait outside schools with his push cart and the contraption which could shave the ice blocks.”

“Li-Ching's favourite treats was the ice ball, a predecessor of ice kachang. Made of shaved ice moulded into the shape of a ball and drizzled with syrups of different flavours, children in the 1950s and 1960s loved the ice ball.”

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