Weird Drinks: Cucumber Drink
Look! Cucumber flavoured drink (or green pumpkin, according to the ingredients list, the only thing in English). Awesome! I thought this was another exciting gem like the Basil Seed Drink from my local Korean food store (even though this one is made in Taiwan).
Or, at least that’s what I thought until I opened the can and took a sip. First warning that boredom would ensue: it was brown. This is never a good thing. I expected it to be clear or milky, like a cucumber. And maybe have some delicious bits of cucumber. Nope. Second warning: it was sweet! Since when is cucumber sweet? And not gross sweet, just boring plain old sweet. Like sugar mixed with burnt water. How do you burn water? I don’t know, but they figured out a way.
It’s so underwhelming, I can’t even think of a snappy line to end with.
UPDATE: R has kindly informed me that this is in fact winter melon flavour, not cucumber. I guess this could’ve made it even more exciting, since I’ve never tried winter melon, but it doesn’t change the fact that it still takes like burnt!
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Haha! This is actually a winter melon drink. It’s very popular in Asia in drinks, desserts, soups and snacks as it’s meant to have ‘cooling’ properties.
The drinks you get in cans are usually all sugar anyway, so I can understand why you feel underwhelmed!
http://www.evergreenseeds.com/waxgourwinme.html
@R - but the picture shows a cucumber? are winter melons the same? or just look the same?
tell me more about this cooling property! i certainly didn’t experience any of that good times
The winter melon does sort of look cucumber/zucchini like. But bigger.
From what I remember mum telling me, foods are either ‘warm’, ‘cooling’ or neutral’, Chicken for example is ‘neutral’ that’s why they are so good in stocks, besides being so tasty of course
Things like watermelon, wintermelon, tea are considered “cool” and things like ginger, chilli, lamb are considered warm.
So the rule is that if your body is feeling “heaty”, you have to consume more “cool” foods and if you are feeling cool, to have more “warm” foods.
Its almost like why we have ice-teas in summer and hearty stews in winter
I can never remember what foods are warm/cool, but it almost seems it could be intuitive. Especially since it gets complicated by how somefoods could swing either way depending on how long its been cooked for and all that!!
huh, neat!
i’ve updated the post to reflect your update:)
Have you ever had a Cel-Ray? It’s a celery flavored soda from the states that you should be able to find at any respectable Jewish deli. It’s mentioned by name on “Seinfeld”, so it’s gotta be good amirite?
I’ve tried it though, pretty good IMHO.
This is offered at our local Asian store. I’ve not tried it. With the description above, I *shan’t* ever try it.
Basil Seed drink, Grass Jelly, even canned Bubble Tea, those are favorite treats. I can’t imagine this becoming a favorite. Maybe I’ll try just *one* can. *twitch*
LOL! After reading your post, i just realise how shallow your taste buds are. That winter melon drink as previously decribed as ‘burnt’, is however the original taste of a ‘cooling’ drink that is designed/traditionally brought down by the asian ancestors. And to confuse a cucumber with a wintermelon, i find that really funny as both differs in both sizes and appearances. Go do a google search before you actually blog about something.