Several months ago, the Chinese herb seller (I don't know what else to call him) at the market sold me this jelly-like thing. I still haven't figured out exactly what it is, but he told me that it is plant-based, and recently I saw a packet of the same thing with "precious plant tonic" written on it. (The first time he introduced me to it, the packaging only had Chinese words on it.) But I couldn't find anything about it online.
One small packet cost RM12:
A big packet (with actual packaging) was sold at RM50 for five times this amount, if not mistaken.
The seller told me to soak the jelly in water so that it would expand. He said I could just eat it like that, or use it in desserts.
It turned out that I had to soak the jelly a long long time before it would expand properly (and not even fully... there was always still a slightly harder centre, even after soaking it overnight).
After straining the jelly, I got something like this:
It was totally tasteless (the seller did tell me that), so I tried cooking it with some honeycomb sugar that I had on hand. The result is a sweet tasty dessert (though nothing to shout about).
I also put it in a red date and longan dessert soup (I made a little just for the purpose of trying out this jelly). I scooped just a little bit of the soup into a bowl so that we can see the jelly bits better.
I guess it's nice to have some jelly in the dessert soup. But it's not something that I cannot live without! I still have a lot of the jelly cubes left, and I don't know when I will finish using them, but I guess I won't be buying any again.
One small packet cost RM12:
A big packet (with actual packaging) was sold at RM50 for five times this amount, if not mistaken.
The seller told me to soak the jelly in water so that it would expand. He said I could just eat it like that, or use it in desserts.
It turned out that I had to soak the jelly a long long time before it would expand properly (and not even fully... there was always still a slightly harder centre, even after soaking it overnight).
After straining the jelly, I got something like this:
It was totally tasteless (the seller did tell me that), so I tried cooking it with some honeycomb sugar that I had on hand. The result is a sweet tasty dessert (though nothing to shout about).
I also put it in a red date and longan dessert soup (I made a little just for the purpose of trying out this jelly). I scooped just a little bit of the soup into a bowl so that we can see the jelly bits better.
I guess it's nice to have some jelly in the dessert soup. But it's not something that I cannot live without! I still have a lot of the jelly cubes left, and I don't know when I will finish using them, but I guess I won't be buying any again.
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