I like the flavor of tea. And I like the consistency of coffee with milk or half-and-half. I got this drink because of the promise of both those things.

I just want to point out something that I think is pretty ingenious about this item—the advertising found on both sides of its neck. Here you see an ad for a Green Tea N’ Cream drink (the other side displayed a picture of Thai Tea Powder).

The advertising doesn’t involve only pictures, though. It also includes the words, “Made from finest ingredients.” (The distributor of this drink is a company called Taste Nirvana.)

So did this drink meet the hype?

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I had been excited to try this Thai Coconut Roll ever since I saw a woman place three boxes of it in her shopping cart. That was all the (silent) recommendation that I needed.

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I know I’ve featured Fresh Longans before, but they bear a second post because while those longans from Thailand were good, these ones from Florida were absolutely great.

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It takes some effort to make a good stir-fry. The vegetables should be cooked just until they’re crisp, and the meat or seafood should be tender. And if you want to make it an interesting stir-fry, the ingredients should be of varying colors and textures.

It’s for those reasons that snow peas are one of my least favorite stir-fry ingredients. I usually have them in stir-fries at restaurants and I’ll eat them if they’re in the dish, but I’ve always found snow peas limp and boring.

So would I like their taste any better if they came in a chip-like form?

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I’m going to assume that some, maybe a lot of you, are unfamilar with the taste of tamarind. The tamarind pods of a large, tropical tree are used as a flavoring in such things as drinks, soups, and candy, lending them a sweet/sour/tart taste.

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