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Cendol

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Cendol is a traditional Southeast Asian dessert of soft, green, worm-like jelly strands made from rice flour or mung bean starch and flavored with pandan, served over shaved ice with coconut milk and palm sugar syrup. It is widely eaten across Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, commonly sold by street vendors and in hawker centers under regional names such as lot chong, mont let saung and banh lot. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1672 2
Origin Region
Indonesia 3
Origin Region
Java 3
Classification
Course
Dessert 1
Dietary Suitability
Contains Dairy or Egg 1
Connections

Expresses Tradition

Street Food Culture, Food Traditions
Source Cendol (Wikipedia)

In Cuisine

Burmese Cuisine, Cuisines
Source Cendol (Wikipedia)

Uses Ingredient

Coconut Milk, Ingredients
Source Cendol (Wikipedia)
Palm Sugar, Ingredients
Source Cendol (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Indonesia, originated there.
Sources
1. Cendol (Wikipedia)
  • entity description (course)
    Cendol is a traditional Southeast Asian dessert of soft, green, worm-like jelly strands made from rice flour or mung bean starch and flavored with pandan, served over shaved ice with coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cendol (dietary-suitability)
    Cendol, also known as lot chong, mont let saung, nom lut, lod song and bánh lọt, is a traditional Southeast Asian dessert characterised by soft, green, worm-like jelly strands made from rice flour or mung bean starch, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup, typically served over shaved ice.
  • In Cuisine: Burmese Cuisine, Wikipedia category list
  • Uses Ingredient: Palm Sugar, Infobox main_ingredient field: Coconut milk, rice flour jelly with pandan juice, shaved ice, palm sugar
  • Uses Ingredient: Coconut Milk, Infobox main_ingredient field: Coconut milk, rice flour jelly with pandan juice, shaved ice, palm sugar
  • Expresses Tradition: Street Food Culture, Wikipedia category: Category:Street food in Indonesia
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2. Cendol (Wikipedia)
Quote
Historical evidence of Thai nokploi, typically served with coconut milk, dates back to the reign of King Narai (approximately 1672?1688 CE), when a typical household dessert set included four types of sweets, known as the ?four-cup dessert set.
3. Cendol (Wikidata)
  • P495 (country of origin): Indonesia
    Indonesia
  • P495 (country of origin): Java
    Java
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