2. Nuoc Yen Sao Khanh Hoa
Beverage: Nuoc Yen Sao Khanh Hoa/Khanh Hoa Salangine's Nest
Ingredients: Salangine's nest, pure sugar
Appearance: A cross between the milky way and frog spawn. Virtually clear, but with pockets of suspended 'fog'. Using my vast knowledge of the softdrink world, I suspect the fog suspension gang are the remnants of a part dissolved salangine's nest. After hours of extensive research I discover a salangine is a swift.
Aroma: Almost imperceptible, but there's a faint sweetness released upon swirling. I'm not getting so much as a whiff of any shit encrusted, stinking Salangine's nest.
Taste: Oooh gercha... that's sacharine sweet again. The fog droppings are surprisingly solid, like they shouldn't really be there at all. There's probably a few salangines in Khanh Hoa province who would chirp in agreement with that observation. Let's give it another shot... Slurp... No, nothing, just sweetness and part solids. In a word. Bollocks.
If this drink were a 1980's pop musician it would be... Howard Jones. Looks awful, sounds awful, just fuckin' awful.
Our survey said... 2.03 out of 10 feathery points. That's 1.02 points for the bonkers wierd bird's nest factor and 1.01 for fog solids appeal.
Cost: 8,500VD roughly 0.2938 Great British Pounds, 238 Armenia Dram or to put it simply 4.29 Macau Pataca.
There is probably only 0.001% bird's nest in that drink because it is darn expensive.
I think bird's nest is gross but it's supposed to good for a lot of maladies. While pregnant, I couldn't eat or drink anything remotely slimy but was told that bird's nest would give my baby beautiful skin. I still refused to drink it and my son's skin is lovely. ;P
Posted by: Lei/cottontimer | June 27, 2005 at 07:59 AM
Bird's nest is flavourless. I think it's the texture people go for plus all the Asian aphrodisiacal nonsense.
Don't know about pre-natal, but post-natal noodlegirl got stuffed with pig's trotter soup, tomato soup and papaya concoctions donated her way. All apparently good for lactation and general well being.
I'll admit to nicking a good proportion of the kindly pig's trotter soup. It rocks. That reason alone makes getting up the duff worthwhile, IMO.
Posted by: pieman | June 27, 2005 at 11:06 AM
Don't go disrespectin' Howard, now.
Posted by: Puma | June 27, 2005 at 06:59 PM
Hahaha. I'm getting more of a Thomson Twins vibe off this one...poor Howard Jones
Posted by: jamie | June 28, 2005 at 05:15 PM