ice kachang

English

Etymology

From ice +‎ Malay kacang (“red bean”), the latter spelled in pre-1972 spelling.

Noun

ice kachang (uncountable)

1. (Singapore, Malaysia) A dessert made from crushed ice with syrup and jelly poured on top.
   • 2021 September 20, Suchitthra Shreiyaa Lakshmi Vasu, The Divine Awakening and Miracles, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2007, June Meyer, Memories of Malaya, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 183:

     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.

   • 2012 August 3, Jaime Koh, Singapore Children Society, Singapore Childhood, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 92:

     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.