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Grass jelly Wikipedia

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Grass Jelly is a type of food with a jelly-like consistency that is used in China and South-East Asia in drinks and desserts. It is also known as cincau (Malay language|Malay), leong fun (Cantonese (linguistics)|Cantonese) or liang fen (Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin). It is sold in cans or packets in Asian supermarkets.

Image:Grass Jelly Drink.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Can of grass jelly drink from Taiwan sold in Canada
Grass jelly is made from boiling grasses in the mint family with potassium carbonate, and then cooling the liquid down to a jelly-like consistency. This jelly can then be mixed with syrup to produce a drink thought to have cooling (Yin and yang|yin) properties. This has a slight iodine flavour and looks like a clear, deep brown liquid with strands or cubes of translucent blackish jelly in it. It can also be mixed with soy milk to produce a milky white liquid with black strands in it, a drink known as Michael Jackson in South-East Asia.

Grass jelly is also mixed in various kinds of South-East Asian desserts such as ice kachang and chendol.

Last Modified:   2005-11-07