RMCO Day 52 ~ Friday, 31 July 2020 (Homemade Sweet Potato Cubes / Balls)

It's Hari Raya Haji and a public holiday today.  Our baking queen decided to play with play dough and doughed out something that she'd wanted to make for a long time - sweet potato cubes / boba balls! And mil decided to make Jiao Zi (dumplings).  Grandma and grand daughter sat alongside each other at the dining table, kneading dough - grandma made savoury delight and grand daughter made dessert delight. It's like a scene from a Chinese restaurant where kitchen staff are hard at work kneading dough to churn out dumplings for hungry customer waiting impatiently outside the kitchen.

Purple, orange and yellow sweet potatoes were steamed, mashed, mixed with tapioca flour and  a sprinkle of sugar and kneaded into  addictive chewy cubes and balls -- cubes for Taiwanese dessert bowl and balls for 'tong sui' and bubble milk tea!

Kids and adults will find it hard to say NO to these colorful chewy cubes that go inside their dessert bowls filled with red bean tong sui, shaved ice cream and grass jelly.

These precious babies are stored in Ziploac bags in the freezer.

Sherilyn's creative ways of savoring the sweet potato cubes and balls:

Added into red bean + lotus seeds + Mandarin peel tong sui with swirls of evaporated milk (to replace fresh santan):

Added into boiled ginger and Gula Melaka water:

Taiwanese sweet potato cubes / Taro balls dessert bowl, composed of red bean tong sui, shaved ice-cream potong (red bean flavor) and sweet potato cubes. Would be good if we had taro/yam too, for the cubes and balls.

This one is without red bean tong sui but with grass jelly:

Sherilyn's homemade sweet potato balls and cubes are so addictively chewy and delightful that I think she should produce them in bulk to sell. It's a way healthier alternative to commercial boba/pearl balls.  This is another item on her 'to sell wishlist' which she can produce to sell during the long school holidays.  This girl is overflowing with creativity and ideas and I'm just so amazed at what she can make and do!