Time : 1.5 hour
Serving : 5 persons

My mother love to eat this sweet cool dessert in Singapore, especially good to eat Ching Ting during hot weather.
It is a common dessert, you can cook it at home or at any dessert stalls to buy.It very hard to find good stall selling Cheng Teng at our nearby. 
You can also eat this hot or cold dessert. This dessert has a lot of ingredients and different booths have different cooking method and choice of ingredients. Most common ingredients are dried longan, barley, ginkgo, lotus seeds,  pang da hai , etc.




Ingredients
5pcs Pang da hai (胖大海) Sterculia seeds/Mollow nuts (I purchased from Chinese medical halls) - About S$1+
50g pearl barley (克薏米) (one which bigger size)
5pcs pitted dried red dates (红枣) (cut into 2)
50g dried longans (龙眼干)
50 grams dried lily bulbs (干百合泡)
60g vacuum pack gingko nuts (克真空包白果)(From supermarket)
60g lotus seeds(莲子),  or dried lotus seeds (Remove pit)
30g dried persimmon(柿饼), sliced thinly
20g dried winter melon strips. (冬瓜条)(Slice small pieces)

Broth Ingredients
2 thin slices ginger (姜)
5 pcs Panda Leave (香兰叶)
2500ml water (水)
90g rock sugar (冰糖)

Method:
1. Washed and soak the Pang da hai , barley,dried lily bulbs, dried lotus seeds separately
   overnight with water and re-use water.
   Pang da hai seed will expanded into a loose jelly.Discard seed and use a pincher to remove the.
   Pang da hai skin / hard stem. 
2. Boiled soaked pearl barley until soft (about 15 ~ 25min).
3. Boil soaked lotus seeds for ½hr until soft.
4. Add in soaked pak hup and gingko nuts until soft and re-use water.
5. Soak the dried longans in water (until about soft) and re-use water.
6. Pour all soak and boiled water and add water until to 2500ml of water for broth . 
7. Boil water with pandan leave tight into a knot, ginger slices and dried date. Remove pandan leave
    and ginger slices.
8. Add the remaining ingredients except pon da hai and cook over low heat until ingredients are soft.
9  Adjust the sweetness by adding rock sugar.
10 Finally, add  Pang da hai   to cheng tng before Serve it hot or cold.

Tip :
You can add large sago (西米), white fungus （白木耳), ,cube of  tapioca / sweet potato, sea-coconut (海椰子) and split mung beans.
If you want clear broth, don't add the soak dried longans water.