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As more and more vendors retire their pushcarts, Kafe Betawi has actually become one of the few places in the city to try such classic Jakarta street foods as made-to-order kueh rangi, crispy-chewy sago-flour cakes doused with palm-sugar syrup.

Street Smarts 2009

David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal Kafe Betawi in Jakarta is one of the few places in the city to try such classic local street foods as made-to-order kueh rangi, crispy-chewy sago-flour cakes doused with palm-sugar syrup.

Street Food, Smart Setting 2009

David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal And to finish things off, Madam Kwan's cendol (shaved ice, pandan leaf-flavored rice-flour noodles, and red beans doused with coconut milk and palm-sugar syrup) and ABC, or ais batur campur ( "mixed ice," which is shaved ice doused with condensed milk, coconut milk and a flavored syrup, in this case pink-flavored).

Street Food, Smart Setting 2009

One asks if that whitish powder is “gula passir” (sand-sugar), so called to distinguish it from the coarse lump palm-sugar or molasses of native manufacture; and the biscuit is considered a sort of European sago-cake, which the inhabitants of those remote regions are obliged to use in the absence of the genuine article.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The trees are tapped for a juice, which, boiled when fresh, gives what is called palm-sugar; but when kept, becomes intoxicating.

Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

The honey was palm-sugar, likewise procurable from the sap.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

To this core menu, add just one or two of the rest of Guillen's menu-perhaps smoked milkfish, a local Filipino fish that tastes like a dense lake trout, or perhaps the "Pork Candy," which is palm-sugar candied slices of sausage that prove delicious for a bite, but quickly tire out the palate, just as eating a bag of lollipops would.

Minnesota Monthly Web Edition 2010

"gula passir" (sand-sugar), so called to distinguish it from the coarse lump palm-sugar or molasses of native manufacture; and the biscuit is considered a sort of European sago-cake, which the inhabitants of those remote regions are obliged to use in the absence of the genuine article.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868