🇲🇾 How to Make Air Mata Kucing

Craving Air Mata Kucing? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Air Mata Kucing at home, in about 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 30g dried longan
• 1 luo han guo (monk fruit), cracked open
• 20g dried winter melon strips
• 1.5L water
• 1 pandan leaf, knotted
• ice

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Rinse the longan and winter melon in cold water.
2. Crack the monk fruit and put the shell in too, not just the flesh — most of the sweetness is in the shell, which is why so many home versions come out thin.
3. Simmer everything with the pandan for 25 min.
4. Taste before adding any sugar. The winter melon and monk fruit usually make it sweet enough on their own.
5. Strain, then chill it hard. Lukewarm, it tastes medicinal; ice cold, it does not.
6. Serve over ice with a spoonful of the softened longan in each glass. Sold from vast steel urns on Petaling Street, which is the correct setting.