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  • noun a Southeast Asian dessert consisting of chilled coconut milk, often with other ingredients

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Examples

  • C ordered cendol, which is on the dessert menu rather than the drinks menu, and served in a bowl, looking rather like ice kacang.

    The Food Pornographer 2008

  • (chewy rice noodles in a tart-and-spicy fish broth), the not-too-rich curry laksa, and shaved ice treats such as cendol and ais kacang.

    Stylish Street Food in Kuala Lumpur 2009

  • I've been more verbose about the food over at Confessions of a Food Nazi, so if you'd like to read about the wonders of cendol and laksa or the joys of nibbling our way through the Jonker's night market hop on over there for a read.

    what I did in my holidays Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • I've been more verbose about the food over at Confessions of a Food Nazi, so if you'd like to read about the wonders of cendol and laksa or the joys of nibbling our way through the Jonker's night market hop on over there for a read.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal And to finish things off, Madam Kwan's cendol (shaved ice, pandan leaf-flavored rice-flour noodles, and red beans doused with coconut milk and palm-sugar syrup) and ABC, or ais batur campur ( "mixed ice," which is shaved ice doused with condensed milk, coconut milk and a flavored syrup, in this case pink-flavored).

    Street Food, Smart Setting 2009

  • We had nasi lemak (too little nasi, too much throat-gagging kangkung); chicken mushroom pie (very tasty and filling, maybe a bit too creamy with boring side veggies); tiramisu (a titanic one); cendol (not bad at all) and the usual ice lemon tea and coffee.

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2003

  • Other cendols that use watered down palm sugar just pale in comparison to Jonker88's cendol.

    NARCISSISM IS NECESSARY Kimberlycun 2010

  • Whenever I go to Malacca, there's one place that I definitely won't miss, because it has the most awesomesauce cendol in the whole wide world.

    NARCISSISM IS NECESSARY Kimberlycun 2010

  • # Sticky, gooey gula melaka drizzled all over the coconut-cream soaked ice-shavings with bouncy cendol and red beans buried underneath.

    NARCISSISM IS NECESSARY Kimberlycun 2010

  • It remains to be seen whether I'll find any other cendol that could match the one from Jonker88.

    NARCISSISM IS NECESSARY Kimberlycun 2010

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