Eis Cendol: For your iftar or any time

Pronounced "ess-chen-doll", this is a dessert or aperitif consisting of highly textural "green worm" noodles called cendol that are made of mung bean flour and coloured with pandan essence.

Cendol, popular dessert in Southeast Asia, mixed of pandan flavoured rice flour jelly, shredded ice, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup. Source: Getty Images/Kondoruk

If you can’t find mung bean flour then rice flour will suffice but the cendol will be mildly different in flavour, more like the Malaysian version than the traditional Indonesian recipe.

The noodles are accompanied by a selection of fruit that you can vary as you please (this recipe includes tinned toddy palm seeds and jackfruit) and topped with coconut milk, shaved ice and palm sugar syrup.

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