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The tenth day of the 12 Japanese (department store) beverages of Chrsitmas, 2011

# 2011-12-21 07:41:00, Hong Blog
Pokka Pudding Shake DrinkWell, a new one for this series: the first drink I had to eat with a spoon. That is how much poured out of the can after a half-minute of pouring. I thought it just might be cold, but after warming up for 10 minutes, I got another half teaspoonful to pour out. Most beverages have water near the main list of ingredients. Not this: Milk, sugar, skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder, dextrine, caramel syrup, egg yolk, salt, thickener and flavor. Despite all this, there is very little flavor. Just a little bit of vanilla, a little bit of egg, but not much of either. The texture looks like a pudding that has not cooked fully; it is not fully blended, but a beige-pink cream that has oily globules streaked throughout. It's not horrible - imagine 25 percent putting mixed with 70 percent milk, with 5 percent bad, fake industrial caramel. A little vanilla, too. It's not inedible or atrocious. It's just that there is better pudding out there. Like cups where a) it tastes...