The weather gets pretty intense lately. An Indian summer comes early in the third week of February. Now, the temperature is already baking. The sun is bright; the air is dry and blistering. I just wonder when the middle of the season arrives, what will happen.
The hot weather makes our body crave fluid, the one with the overload of the sweet delight especially. Whether it’s a simple glass of lemonade or a wild herbal ice-tea, it’s time to dust out the clear, tall glasses, make some aromatic, refreshing syrup and pouring it over some ice.
What’s the wildest and most delicious drink you have ever come across? There’re so many unusual cocktails and drinks out there. The flavor and the cooling aroma rising from the glass is so refreshing. I also fancy the colors and style they came in. Whimsical and sparkling.
For me, pumpkin juice is weird, and until these days, I can’t get use to the taste of Salkadi, a spicy, savory drink in India. And what about bird nest drink from China or synthetic blood energy drink from the US? I always want to try new stuffs, but my appetite can only agree on a few strange drinks.
In Thailand, hot summer can never be without a slurp-y, snowy glass of colorful things— dessert, candied fruits, fresh fruits, tapioca pearls… anything, even some peanut or bread cubes will do. The syrup is made from sugar and flavored with some pandan leaves.
It’s tough to decide whether it’s a drink or dessert, but we don’t really care. It’s a summer essential. Without it, I feel like I can’t make it through the heat.
Snow of Sweet
Ingredients:
Pendan leave flavored syrup- boiled 1 cup of sugar with 1 cup water with a few piece of pandan leave.
Coconut milk
Sago pearls
Tapioca Pearl
Tapioca vermicelli
Cantaloupe cubes (or fresh fruit of your choice)
Shaved ice
Preparation
1. Fill half a glass with some shaved ice.
2. Layer sago pearl, tapioca pearl, tapioca vermicelli, and fruits until the glass is filled.
3. Top with some more ice.
4. Add syrup and top with some coconut milk. And serve immediately.
You can create a rainbow in a glass. Add anything you love; it can be jelly, candies or fruits. Now add a straw and a stirrer. Sit back and relax, enjoy this sweetest dessert drink under the hot summer sun.
Have a beautiful day,
Tes
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It looks so pretty Tes.
Mandy
Thanks, Mandy
Summer colours in a glass.. so inviting!
You can actually add anything into it. Anything cool and sweet can definitely beat the summer
My kids call that boba and they love to go to the local Thai restaurant and get a drink like that. Bread cubes? That is really different.
Yes, Tammy. ,Bread cubes, strange right? But it’s so yummy when it soaks up the cool coconut syrup
Hi Tes -
Looks and sounds like a great drink! However, I don’t know what a few of the ingredients are (living in the US). What are Sago pearls, Tapioca Pearl, and
Tapioca vermicelli? I have no idea if those ingredients are available in the US. Do you know what would be a substitute for them? (As well as pandan leaves?)
Hi Lea Ellen,
You can always visit an Asian Grocery Store to find these ingredients. I think they’re easy to find in the US more than in India.Tapioca pearl is an instant dried ball made from tapioca (cassava) flour, it also come in a noodle shape, called Tapioca vermicelli, and sago peal is made from Sago roots. These ingredients come in the packages. They’re very easy to use.
If you can’t find them, I suggest you try it with some broken angle-hair pasta, load it up with some cantaloupe, canned pineapple, some sweet corn, dried fruits and nuts. I can’t really imagine anything to substitute the flavor of the pandan leave. Again, you might be able to find pandan leave essence in the store, but if not, the next best thing might be vanilla or cardamom.
so pretty! i want to be somewhere tropical!
Now that you mention ‘tropical’, another delightful thing to add into this is some cold slices of jackfruit.