: : Mooncake Festival ~ Carpenter St. Part II : :
Strolling along Carpenter Street last Sunday, Granny and I found a little stall still making kantong using the traditional method of making shaven ice.
It’s a block of ice on a wooden stand that has a blade with a serrated edge in the middle. Click here to view a video demo of the man at work.
And this is the kantong @ sweeten iced-stick. Nice to eat while weaving through a crowded area. Everyone is making way for you because they do not want their clothes to become sticky. Hee hee!
Granny : Aiya! It’s not a ball! Also, not as good as the one in Penang lah!
Lucia will be most happy at the above statement. As well as Panda. 🙂
Happy Lunar Day everyone!
You have no idea … how long i have been not eating that … sticky innit ? On your teeth as well .
I wonder if we bumped into each other and didn’t know it.
maybe marita. lol! the pictures were taken on sunday and there were loads of ppl there. if u see a chinese lady with a granny speaking in English, that’s us. 🙂
hi Wena
happy lunar day!
i thoroughly enjoy reading your blog. everything looks so yummy! would love to visit kuching one day and try out all the food you wrote about.
i havent seen kantong before. what sort of syrup is that brownish liquid in your pic?
the jelly mooncakes look very inviting too. is the filling jelly too? we dont have jelly mooncake here in sydney. 🙁
cheers,
pinkcocoa
wow…so nice. must show it to mom and dad.
Hey, I did not know Kantong is line a Hawaiian snow cone. I grew up in “10th mile”, so, we “sua teng Ka” have this flavored/colored/who knows what Ice stick in long plastic bag, for 10cent extra you get a seng boi with init . Learn something new everyday.
ya wena, your granny is very wise. 🙂
why the kantong not in ball shaped one?
i remember eating kantong long long ago when i was a child. that time they were using that very old heavy machine (like the one phua chu kang’s grandma use to make her ice kacang), where a block of ice was placed on the machine, then must use hands to turn the handle attached to the wheel (kind of like a sewing machine handle) to ‘shave’ the ice. after shaving, can’t remember how they managed to shape the ice into a ball, but yes, it always came in a ball shape, and we kids enjoy sucking the sweetness out of the kantong. 😉