Fig-seed jelly · Hot-season cooler
O-Aew (Phuket Shaved Ice Jelly)
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The jelly is set from the seeds of a creeping fig mixed with nam wa banana juice. The same fig jelly is known as aiyu in Taiwan.
Clear o-aew jelly served over shaved ice with syrup, usually topped with red kidney beans and grass jelly. Regulars order by colour: white for the jelly, red for beans and black for grass jelly.
Why it's made this way: Hokkien settlers brought it to Phuket during the tin-mining boom of the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, and it remains a Phuket Old Town specialty.
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