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Cendol is a signature dish of Malaysia; we have verified places to eat it in Penang. Shaved ice over pandan rice-flour noodles, coconut milk and dark gula melaka, often with red beans, eaten standing in the street heat before it melts. Start with where to eat Cendol in Penang.
Cendol · Penang
Shaved ice over pandan rice-flour noodles, coconut milk and dark gula melaka, often with red beans, eaten standing in the street heat before it melts.
Cendol crossed the strait with Teochew and Peranakan traders and became a Penang street ritual in the 1930s, when Tan Teik Fuang set up on Lebuh Keng Kwee in 1936. The stall, now branded Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul, still shaves ice over the same green pandan noodles, and the standing crowd on the lane is a George Town landmark in itself. The dish is a heat-management device as much as a dessert: coconut fat, palm sugar and ice against a 33-degree afternoon.
Where to eat in Penang:
- Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul
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