My mil got 2 boxes of kwai leng goa from Eu Yan Sang the other day. Guess who whacked the 2 boxes of tortoise jelly?
My not so health freak Alycia and moi. I love tortoise jelly, though it tastes a tad bitter and I normaly eat it minus the honey. Yup, I can slurp the smooth jelly down my throat minus any sweet syrup. I polished off the last box last night as I was having a slight sore throat, no thanks to the durians, terrible haze and constant yelling.  My throat really felt better this morning…. though I doubt the herbal jelly actually cured the bad throat.
By the way, it’s called tortoise jelly coz people believe that the herbal jelly is made from ground tortoise shell. Well, I don’t know how true it is but I personally think it’s made purely out of herbs and jelly powder.  What da ya think? You think tortoise jelly really has ground tortoise shell in it?
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I have no idea what they are made of also.
i cant believe Alycia like that….i have always thought kids hates them…my niece does!
I like them only with heaps of honey!! Think it’s herbs as well and nothing tortoise-y about it.
i used to absolutely love this back in KL when my mom made them from the boxed powder ones. So I recently saw them available at the Asian store here and bought a box. On the day I wanted to make it, I read the ingredients (as previously I thought it is just called Kwai Leng Gou for namesake) and it did say powder from tortoise shell. Immediately I felt it was gross and threw the box away. I don’t think I can eat this again unless it is proven that no tortoise whatsoever is used LOL
hmm…i would think it is tortoise-less base jelly (how many tortoise gotto be killed for the jelly rite?)but..mommibee has just found the powder from tortoise shell as part of the ingredient, alamak! even myself find it gross liao >_<
in the past, they used to scrap the back of the tortoise back to make the jelly….. that’s what i hv been told. i absolutely love this cos it does wonder to ur complexion, skin, etc…..
hmm…i also don think got tortise ingredient la…basically only jelly.
alycia so pretty & sweet….., with or without tortoise shell, i still love it :)P
I love mine with lots of honey… and the can ones with flavours of longan/ keiji/ laici, I love those too 🙂