I would have been all over this drink as a kid…

mostly because of its Capri Sun-like pouch…

and screw-top. I wouldn’t have been attracted to its flavor; I probably would have thought, “Coffee? Gross! That’s what adults drink and adults are lame.”

But now, as part of the 18 and older crowd, the coffee flavor most definitely drew me in…and the pouch design.

So, the flavor. I really liked it. I like my coffee with cream or half-and-half, and this Coffee Shake tasted like coffee with either addition. The flavor was smooth and pleasant, and not sickeningly sweet like some milk shakes can be.

To drink this item, you squeeze from the bottom to the top and suck at the same time. The effort and painfully numb fingers afterwards were worth it.

This would be a handy thing to have in the freezer if you wanted to drink a milk shake but didn’t want to make or go out to buy one.

And the Milk Shake flavor? Equally as delicious.

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This Lychee Flavored Sherbet With Coconut Jelly is another recommendation from reader Lian. The girl knows how to eat, and for that I am grateful.

It’s the maeda-en brand, the same one as the yummylicious Strawberry Mochi Ice Cream.

The following photos may be the most unattractive ones I’ve posted so far, but they are probably the most ‘real’ ones.

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Someone wrote me recently saying that she loves Ling Ling Dipping Sauce, yet it’s no longer being sold by the bottle. She asked if I or readers could recommend another similar dipping sauce?

I said fine, I know what it’s like to have a favorite item be discontinued (I’m still upset with you, Sephora!) so let me pick up a bag of dumplings and bottle of dumpling sauce, eat a dozen of the dumplings with the sauce, tell everyone what I thought of the two things, and ask for dumpling sauce recommendations.

This is what I came up with, a bag of Vegetable, Pork, and Leek Dumplings.

And a bottle of Taiwanese dumpling sauce.

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This Red Bean Ice Bar is basically a sweet popsicle filled with red beans. The most awesome thing about it is that there are red beans in every bite. Every. Bite. Yay! (I looked up how to spell ‘popsicle’ because really, it’s been years since I’ve written that word, and learned that it’s called ‘ice lolly’ in England. Cute, huh?)

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