Today I managed to steal a few hours in the afternoon on my busiest day of the week to meet a couple of friends. My childhood friend, J has come from Singapore and the last time we met was exactly 13 months ago when I was in Singapore to visit my newborn twin niece and nephew. I cancelled Cass’ Mandarin tuition class and piano class so that I could meet up with J & SP. Thankfully hubs could help to fetch Drama Queen to her taekwondo class.
I could not join my friends when they had lunch in Shah Alam as I had to fetch Drama Queen back from school and settle the girls’ lunch. Took Grab to Happy Mansion @ S17, PJ later to join them for dessert at Kwong Wah for the best cendol in town.
If you’re staying in the Klang Valley, you’d have probably heard of the cendol at Happy Mansion. The very addictive cendol is served in petite bowls piled sky-high with ice so finely shaven, it almost resembles the texture of ice-cream.
Tucked away in a quaint little shoplot in Happy Mansion flats in Section 17, Petaling Jaya this tiny shop is a family business that has been going strong for 60 years now.
It’s currently run by the third generation of the family, with their signature cendol and ice kacang offerings being the main attractions. The waves of customers streaming in and out of the shop all day long is testimony to how much of a delicacy their desserts have come to be.
Hubs brought us to this shop several weeks ago to try Kwong Wah’s cendol but we had to detour when we saw a long beeline outside the shop.
The cendol (RM5.50) is one of the best I have tasted in the Klang Valley thus far. It is a rich and creamy concoction of fresh santan (coconut milk) and Gula Melaka. The pandan-flavoured, green jelly strips that sit atop the mound of ice shavings are firm yet smooth with a hint of pandan aroma.
My first round of cendol with my friends:
The assam laksa is undeniably very toothsome as well.
Later when the hubs came to pick me up, I had another round of cendol, which is really very addictive!
While waiting for the hubs to pick me up, something interesting caught my eyes. Just a few shops away from Kwong Wah, I saw a swarm of people queuing outside the shop; on the floor outside the shop were tubs and tubs of CNY cookies wrapped inside huge red plastic bags, ready to be picked up by customers.
Never have I seen so many types of CNY cookies housed inside a shoplot for sale. The entire shop sells only festive cookies and dried meat. After CNY, the shop would be selling Hari Raya cookies followed by Deepavali and Christmas cookies. I later found out that the shop, Milky Way Cookies is a manufacturer of festive cookies. They supply their cookies to hotels and shops as well. The shop was super crammed with last minute shoppers like me hunting for their favorite cookies. Choosing the cookies can be a headache as there are close to a hundred type of cookies and homemade snacks to choose from!
As there were no more shopping baskets left for me to place my cookies, I could only cope with no more than 3 tubs of cookies with my hands. Everyone was buying at least 5 tubs of cookies and I had to queue up for about 15 minutes just to pay.
Friends since primary school, SP (on my right) used to swoop the top few positions in the entire standard all through her primary school days. The man opposite me is her hubby, who is a doctor. J (on the left) used to be my sidekick and we had a lot of fun making fun of people’s names and just about anything. Yeah I know we were mean and we still are and we can only be this evil when the both of us get together. We’re very good in gossiping too 🤣, right J? I know you’ll be reading this. Can’t wait to meet up with you and everyone else again when Jenn comes back from the US of A in December this year.
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