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A.B.C. (Air Batu Campur in Malay), is known as ice with mix ingredients, when translated into English. This is a popular dessert (or a substitute for drink), served with shaved ice, syrups, evaporated milk, creamy corns, azuki beans (or red kidney beans), green starch noodles, grass jelly, peanuts etc.

I seized the opportunity to have a bowl of A.B.C. during my visit home in Malaysia last year.

The fancy A.B.C. with ice-cream!

Snow is wonderful for building snowman, making snow angel, and then what? I came up with this idea of preparing A.B.C. from fresh snow! What?? Eating the natural snow?!

Here is my version of eco-friendly “natural” A.B.C.

Disclaimer: Try at your own risk!

It has been more than 24 hours since I had it. No peculiar happenings just yet. I kept thinking: if we can stick out our tongues to taste the snow, what difference does it make to eat snow? I was mentally prepared, if I ever have to make use of my medical insurance coverage… Thank God I survived from that bowl of yummy A.B.C.!

How does snow taste like? Is it different from the regular slush ice you’ve had? You bet! The disparity in taste is comparable to boiled water and mineral/distilled water. That’s the difference I found between slush ice and natural snow. Despite my best of intentions to serve my roommates A.B.C., they opted for just an itty bitty taste of the snow, and had their “A.B.C.” without the “shaved ice”! *faint*

Now that I regain my sanity (too excited over the snow yesterday), I’m carrying out a microbiological test on the natural snow for detection of coliforms, E. coli, and any other “junks” that could be in it.

Do I catch your attention now? I can’t wait to see the results either! Oh well, no matter what the outcome is, I’m willing to accept it. If snow is proven to be clean, maybe I can consider selling A.B.C. in the winter (just kidding); otherwise, I’ll quit making A.B.C., that’s all.

The test results should be out tomorrow! Stay tuned for more updates! ^v^

Tags: Canada, Culture, Experience, Life, Winter

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