sago gula melaka
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gula melaka
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noun
- a sweet dessert soup consisting of boiled sago pearls (soft, chewy balls around 3 - 5 mm in diameter made from sago starch) in chilled coconut milk, sweetened with gula melaka
Particularly enjoyable were the lychee pannacotta (S$8) with tropical fruit coulis and the coconut pudding (S$8) stuffed with sago pearls and drizzled with palm sugar — a modernised sago gula melaka indeed.
— 2011 May 13, Annette Tan. Today (Afternoon Edition), "Plenty of promise". p.5