What to drink in China II

Thanks to local expertise, I have found yet more wonderful drinks to try!


Walnut and peanut flavoured milk was the first new aquaintance--and not a bad one! A rather filling breakfast in itself, it has a fresh nutty quality to it, and a good taste. 4/6

Chocolate milk in a bag is pretty much only chocolate milk, but you get to drink it from a bag.. A little too sweet for my liking, 3/6. Update: The second bag, enjoyed without too sweet pastries to go along with it was in fact much better, and clearly a 4/6.

Black milk turned out to be milk with everything black that is good for you...black rice, black beans and black poppy seeds. Surprisingly this combination was not disgusting, although still an aquired taste; 4/6.

Random Chinese drink in a carton; 发酵的. I presumed it was milk-based because I found it with all the other flavoured milks. However--it tasts a bit like milk with peach (or apricot?), and it is, as the Chinese characers clearly indicate, sour. (Though it is neither drinking youghurt, nor actually soured milk, texture-wise.) A little hard on the sourness, it only receives a 3/6 as a drink. (But it would probably make an excellent popsickle!)

What to drink in China?

China offers a range of more or less new and exciting beverages. So far I have tried every new one I could find, and here are the ratings:

Almond milk was the firs new aquaintance--with a somewhat fake taste it still had the classic "nut milk" feel and went down quite well with noodles; 4/6.

The coconut milk was as delicious as expected, with a good mix of actual coconut stuff and milk, with a lovely nutty flavour--an absolute favourite so far! 5/6.

Walnut milk is a more unusual version, but it had to be tried. After long consideration I realised that it tasts much like the shrimp chips you get in Asian restaurants. The only good quality beeing its nutty milk texture, it gets a 1/6 and is rendered rather undrinkable (although I had to finish the can to be sure of it).

Chinese chocolate milk is not really new, but a local version of a classic, an easy going 4/6, albeit a little sweet and with too much fake vanilla.

Various versions of iced green tea have however made it to an all-time favourite position--particularly the iced green tea with jasmine--and I wish Wetern iced tea producers would learn from the Chinese (although they are a little heavy on the sugar here as well..); 5/6.

Not really a drink, I managed to buy an ice cream made from iced green tea with dates and some sort of frozen nutty-milk cover today, and although it was nothing like ice cream is supposed to be, it was delicious! A good 5/6 for a cooling snack (although this might change if it turns out the water was polluted and I get sick..)