Es Cendol or Dawet

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1. 1Step 1: Have a big pan ready with ice water and a sieve or skimmer with big openings.
2. 2Step 2: Warm up your coconut milk with a little water on low heat. If you have pandan leaves, add that to the milk. Let the coconut milk warm up. Do not bring to the boil. You can also use cold coconut milk without the pandan leaf. Dilute it with some water.
3. 3Step 3: Meanwhile melt your palm sugar with a little bit of water to make it into a thin syrup. It will thicken as it cools.
4. 4Step 4: Have a pan with ice water ready. Throw in two hands full of ice cubes. They will melt while you prepare the cendol and the water will be extra cold by the time you are done.
5. 5Step 5: Mix the salt and sugar with the two types of flour.
6. 6Step 6: Stir a tablespoon of pandan extract into the water. Add it to the flour mix that is in a pan on medium heat.
7. 7Step 7: Keep stirring for a couple of minutes. When the flour substance is quite thick you are almost done.
8. 8Step 8: When it starts to shine and slowly drips off your spoon, it is ready.
9. 9Step 9: Place the sieve over the pan with ice water, and pour the mixture onto the sieve, still warm. Do not let it cool.
10. 10Step 10: Press the jelly through the sieve with a spoon or spatula. The icy water solidifies the worms straight away. They will keep their shape. Make sure you pour all your dough into the sieve. This way your vermicelli will be as long as possible.
11. 11Step 11: You can keep the pandan vermicelli in the fridge to use the next day. Do not leave it in the water, because the green color will go away.
12. 12Step 12: But of course you can't wait to let everything cool down. Make a cendol now, while the ingredients are still lukewarm. It's fantastic too!
13. 13Step 13: Use a spoon to fill up one third of the glass with the cendol. Add some of the cendol water too and a few ice cubes.
14. 14Step 14: Fill up the glass with coconut milk and then pour the palm sugar in the middle of the glass.
15. 15Step 15: Before you eat it mix the layers and use a spoon to fish for green worms at the bottom of your sweet, creamy coconut milk pond.