1 Small melon
800 ml Water
315 g Glass noodles
55 g Ginger, peeled
100 g Sugar
2 Limes or lemon
2 Ginger cookies

Peel melon, remove seeds, cut into small cubes and puree in a liquidizer or food processor. Keep cool. Slice ginger finely and boil half of it in water with half the sugar until dissolved. Reduce the heat, add noodles, and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove, allow to cool, pour into bowl. Discard ginger and chili pepper. In a saucepan, boil together remaining sugar and ginger and lime or lemon juice. Simmer until thick. Take from stove, cool and discard ginger. Chill. In individual bowls, set in large ice-filled bowls, pour equal quantities of gingered melon puree. Top with noodles then the lime or lemon. Garnish each with a mint leaf. Serve each with two ginger cookies.

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