We hardly had an opportunity to take Ice Kachang when we were young.

Ice Kachang was one of the luxuries for us more than 50 years ago. The hawker had to manually shave the ice.

First, the hawker added a bit of ingredients in a bowl. The ingredients were as follows:
red beans, cooked till soft
sweet corn kernels
lengkong (jelly) cube
agar-agar strand, cooked
palm seeds (Atap seeds 亚答子)

Then, topped generously with shaved ice in a shape of a steep mountain, forming a mound that was high in the centre. Spooned some red and brown syrup and poured evaporated milk evenly over the ice.

Nowadays, shaving of ice is no more manually. It was done by machine. Fast and easy!

Atap leaves were used to make roof many years ago.

There were Atap seeds inside