
Shaved ice desserts and the year-round steaming hot weather of Southeast Asia go together. No further explanation is needed for that statement. Everywhere you look, you see shaved ice dessert stalls. And always sitting gorgeous in the midst of many, many cold dessert components is Tab Tim Grob[1] (ทับทิมกรอบ).
This beautiful dessert stands out. It really does. In fact, if I were to follow the dubious tradition of crowning food items (cf. durian is the king of fruit and mangosteen is the queen of fruit), I'd say this exquisite, refreshing, and fragrant cold dessert more than deserves to be put on the throne.
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