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| Ice Sorbet Balls a.k.a Air Batu Kepal.. This is one of the stories derived from a book written for my children and family to read about my childhood memories. PART ONE Ice sorbet balls…. This time of the year seems to be the hottest. With this kind of heat around, every one of us would definitely go out looking for something to cool down our throats such as ice-cream, cendol or what ever with ice in it. I remember a story about cooling down the heat when I was in the primary school.
When I was in the primary school, I lived in Chamang. Usually, everyday my father or Apak we called him would drive us to and fro our school that is Sulaiman Primary School which is situated in Bentong town. Sometimes when Apak couldn’t pick us from school, we had no choice but to walk. Walking home from school in the hot afternoon could sometimes be so exhausting. We took the short cut route from the Sungai Repas bridge through the kampong Cina. The route came out to the Chamang bridge. We would drag our heavy schoolbags wearily. As usual we stopped at the most popular hawker stall selling grated ice balls.
All the time we observed how the ice balls was prepared. Only today the process seemed to lit up in my mind so clearly.Firstly,the hawker a china man, stuck a block of ice to a crampon. The crampon was a dirty worn out piece of wood full of nails. Then he pushed the ice block to and fro on a slimy and mouldy grater. The grated ice fell into an aged plastic basin below. He then scooped the grated ice with his two bare hands..urrgh!.. and patted it into a ball. He poured a little red syrup onto the ice ball and that was it!
We paid and walked off, licking and slurping the ice ball to its last drop never considering how unhygienic the preparation was…but strange enough, we never even once had diarrhea! 
Aha! This is how it looked like..the so called ice sorbet balls..we called it air batu kepal...yummy!
@the cornetto ice cream costs only 40 sen in the 70's... ← Newer Post
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