Coffee gets hotter in America. Drive-through coffee stands with bikini clad baristas are making waves in some American cities for the past year or two…
The concept is going to get some backslash for sure. Belfare, Washington, is the first township barring these sexpresso’s stands from business… I guess it’s just a matter of time before other places following their suit.
It’s probably not a problem if one or two coffee stands are getting sexier, but it’s obviously inappropriate when it’s becoming a trend. Imagine having a sexpresso stand at every corner of the streets… that would be like heaven kinda disturbing.
I have to be honest though… if I’m in US, I won’t mind at all to visit one of these coffee stands; and I could become a regular customer if their coffee doesn’t sux. Sex sells… and it almost never failed.
Vietnamese have quite a unique way to prepare their coffee. One of the most popular coffees is the ice-milk coffee (cà phê sữa đá) which is also popularly called the ‘drip coffee’ by travellers because of how it was brewed… like this and this.
Didn’t manage to drip the coffee myself when I was in Hanoi in July 2008; the cafe I visited served the well-prepared drink instead (pic).
My sister who tried some coffee in Hanoi prior to my visit told me that Vietnamese coffee was stronger than common espresso… can’t agree on that, at least not with the one I had. A decent glass of coffee though… smooth, thick and rich.
It’s kinda ironic that my first ever meal in Vietnam was not Vietnamese food, but western food instead…
It was at a restaurant called Kangaroo Café, which also runs some short tours around Vietnam. I was there to book a trip to Halong Bay initially, but couldn’t find the right schedule. However, after spending two hours walking under the sun, I kinda need a break… and the air-con and cold beer seemed a bit too hard to resist.
Hence, my first meal in Vietnam… a peppered chicken chop, some chips, salad, and a Bia Hanoi (Hanoi beer). Decent food and reasonably priced.
A Japanese firm is introducing a fizzy (or fishy?) eel-drink this summer.
Japanese love eating eels, I can understand that… as I love their Unagi dish too. But an eel-drink? That’s like… Eerrrwwwwww??
Japanese Tobacco Inc is mass producing the canned drink called Unagi Nobori (surging eel) just ahead of Japan’s annual eel-eating season.
The fizzy, yellow-coloured drink contains extracts from the head and bones of the fish and loaded with vitamins A, B1, B2, D and E. [via Mainichi]
The drink is said to be tasting like boiled eel, and cost 140 yen (~USD1.30) per bottle.
It reminds me of the cucumber drink which Pepsi introduced last summer… but in terms of bizarreness, the eel drink triumph by miles.
Didn’t know that Pepsi is selling purified water until seeing it in Hanoi a week ago… the name of the brand is Aquafina and it’s probably one of the two best selling bottled water brands in Hanoi. Must be the healthiest drink from Pepsi lol…
Aquafina is currently distributed in only a few countries… the USA, Canada, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Vietnam. In case you are wondering… it taste like water, yada.
Wallpapers of Korean pop groups SNSD and Super Junior posing for Sunkist Sweetieade commercial; click image for full size (1024×768) pics…
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Had a drink with a few old buddies at Sky Bar last month. The pub, located at Traders Hotel, is popular in Kuala Lumpur for its pool side setting and its prime location which provides a great view for Petronas Twin Towers, formerly the world’s tallest building.
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Pepsi is planning to release a cucumber-flavoured soda in Japan this summer.
I wonder how it would taste like… a bubbling vegetable juice or Pepsi soda with cucumber flavour? Doubt that I would fancy it either way.
