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Tua Mun Duey
Tua Mun Duey is a Southern Thai shaved ice dessert with sweet toppings. Its most important ingredient is boiled pearl millet. The dessert is highly popular from Chinese recipe and it became Hatyai local dessert till nowadays.

History
 Tua Mun Duey or local people called Mun Duey. The full name of this dessert comes from its ingredients of its Tua Mun Duey Namklang. It consists of Tua which is shortcut of the word ‘Tau Dang’ means read bean, Mun means sweet potato, Duey means pearl millet, Namklang means ice in Thai. It is a sweet dessert, which is served in the tall cup. It has pearl millet, sweet potato, red bean, pineapple, and coconut milk on top with ice and you also order it by your pleasure. The origin of this dessert based on Hatyai, Songkhla where the famous city of food and dessert is. It can be considered the dessert, which is mixed culture food between Chinese and Thai because the first person who sold it was a Chinese man who escaped the war from China to Hatya. Then he decided to live in Hatyai and started selling this dessert and tried to adapt it by using local ingredients, which can be found in local market. This dessert became famous dish for local people but it does not have the specific name to call so people called it by the ingredients.

Ingredients
All main ingredients of Tua Mun Duey is made of natural grain and fruit. The most important ingredient is pearl millet, which is a rich composition of proteins and minerals. Boil the red bean then blend it and mix it with the herb water. After that, let it cool down and keep into the containers. For the sweet potato and pineapple should boil with syrup and let the sweetness get into them until it is done. Take them up and put into the containers. Thai people used to eat the ice shaved with any other toppings and mixed it together, but for Tua Mun Duey, the way to serve it should be served as layer and put the coconut on top with ice.

Variety
Tua Mun Duey is made to order. You can choose the topping by yourself with your pleasure. You can add more extra ingredients as you please, and also coconut as well. The price depends on the ingredients. It is recommended that you should mix all together in the cup.

Availability
Tua Mun Duey can be found only in Hatyai and mostly in downtown of Hatyai. There are only two shops available to get it. First shop opens from 12 pm until around 3 pm depend on the stuffs to sell and close on the heavy raining day. For the second one, they open all the day until 6 pm and close on Sunday.