We tried mystery Asian drinks!
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- Tom and I are in the kitchen taste testing some interesting Asian drinks - including a durian fruit drink, fizzy milk and a slightly odd, lumpy chocolate tea. More taste test videos • Taste Testing Playlist
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00:00 Introduction - Asian Drinks Haul
00:57 Grass Jelly Drink
02:34 Digimon Ocean Bomb Banana Drink
04:09 Chocolate Tea
06:24 Durian Fruit Cider Drink
08:37 Bonus Marble Glass Drink
09:57 Milkis - Fizzy Milk
11:51 Basil Seed Drink
14:04 Conclusion
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Which drink was your favourite? We definitely need to get Tom trying a durian fruit! Speaking of which here's a video of me trying Durian fruit in 1954 ;) czcams.com/video/iPk0xoKfrug/video.html
You're the Best Barry! Welcome BACK
I have had alovira drink that had cubed bits in it and it was actually nice.
Whoa it is cool how Phoebe kind of takes a after Mrs Bs side! Both of your faces on the one taste was great for us bad for you hahah!!!😂 this was great!!!
Didn't you and Ashens make your own Milkis-style drink a few years ago by putting milk in a Soda Stream, or did I dream that?
I love Milkis and the Ramune (glass marble drink) the marble is to help preserve the fizx
Tom is a natural - his deadpan is brilliant. Please do more with him!
We Asians tend to like a bit of chewy stuff in our beverages, like boba milk tea (aka bubble tea), nata de coco in drinks of all flavors, and basil/chia seeds. Grass jelly was meant to be like a herbal jelly made using actual herbs, but in most canned stuff it's just made of agar, swirling around in what is basically a dyed simple syrup.
Are you supposed to drink it?! Or leave a little in the bottom of the can?
@@mrbarrylewis Yes, you can choose whether to chew on the bits or just let them slide down your gullet whole. They're small enough that you won't really choke on it. The bits left on the bottom of the tin is unavoidable due to the design of the opening. Or you can play a game with your mates just like when we were kids; whoever manages to get every bit of jelly out of their tin wins. You choose what to wager. We usually played for a packet of crisps.
@@SGLastMileFails But why though
Cause its great. Its a dessert@@rucker69
@@rucker69
probably the same reason american children have a 'game' where they throw knives at each other's feet
Good on Tom for knowing the difference between Pokemon and Digimon. :)
His skills will be useful lol
BiL was great fun to have, he's funny and knows his digital monsters. Please keep him around!
BiL?! I'm confused lol
@@mrbarrylewis Brother in law
@@MyonexisI may have missed something, but I thought it was his brother, not his in-law.
@@Zelmelhe says pretty clearly at the start of the video that it’s his brother in law
@@Craazycool1Fair enough, I obviously mis-heard that then.
I love that" it's illegal to NOT carry a durian on a subway" and having this idea of everyone having their own 'travelling durian' to help them avoid the fines
Its illegal TO carry durian on subways because of the smell.
"A Digimon is not a Pokemon?!" - Barry's realisation is amazing. I love his complete lack of pop culture hahaha. Never change bro!
Barry saying 'carbonated' and then shaking the hell out of the ramune. Resulting in him giving us a British suprized Pikachu face.
See I love banana flavoured stuff. The reason the flavouring tastes unlike bananas we know these days is because flavouring is not based on the banana we know these days.
Generally we eat the “Cavendish” banana which is quite mild. Banana flavouring is based on the “Gros Michel” variety, or “Big Mike” as it’s sometimes known. That is sweeter and more floral in taste, giving rise to the foam banana flavour we associate with.
And the reason why it's a different type of banana is because the Gros Michel went virtually extinct back in the 1950s due to Panama disease (actually a type of fungicide resistant fungus). So banana growers switched to the Cavendish, which is resistant to Panama disease.
HOWEVER, the Cavendish is potentially going to be wiped in the coming years by a similar strain of Panama disease. Meaning the world will either switch en masse to ANOTHER variety of banana, or science will have to find a way to genetically modify the Cavendish to be resistant to it (which is difficult because many countries ban the sale of genetically modified food).
I had no clue and this is an interesting fact..ty :)
@@ivanskorica6979 the reason we don't have the Big Mike 'nanas anymore is because they almost went extinct because of an invasive fungus (I think)
This is a myth, actually. Gros Michels still exist. You can get them. I've had one. They don't taste anything like banana flavouring. They taste almost exactly like a Cavendish but stronger.
The reason banana flavouring doesn't taste like bananas is because it's not meant to. It was invented as a _pear_ flavouring. It's still used for pear flavour things in most of Europe. Try it, bite a pear and see if you don't notice there's a strong "fake banana" flavour in there. But pears were unpopular in the US at the time, and bananas were a hit new foreign treat. So they just marketed it as banana to people who didn't know any better, and it's stayed that way ever since.
@@Chocomint_Queen The myth is a myth - did you have a banana from way back when this all started? No?
The “marble” was usually actually glass. It acted as a stopper in carbonated beverage bottles. The carbonation in the drink created pressure inside the bottle, which held the glass globe against a (usually rubber) seal in the neck.
It's called a codd-neck bottle, and used to be standard for carbonated drinks before bottle caps came along. My grandparents used to have a couple of them on display in their house from around the 1900s.
Also one side of the marble chamber is made to keep the marble from rolling back into the opening if you drink out of it with that side facing down.
I've seen a lot of these in mudlarking videos. They get excited when they find complete ones, because Victorian children would break them to get the marble out to play with so most of the bottles they find are broken, though they also find a lot of the marbles too
The glass marble stopper idea was a Victorian invention. I believe it was a man named Codd. That is where we get the expresion ' Codds walop" from.
Tom should come back mote often. He's a great addition to the channel. More of this entertainment guy please!
My favorite drink, aloe water, is my favorite because it's got aloe chunks in it. Chunky hot chocolate sounds amazing
The hot chocolate was so good!
I think I've tried the aloe one i get mine from the £shop for .75p
@mandyb4140 oh wow! Here in the US, the only ones I've ever found run about $3
It's a really good bargain as it's half a litre, TBH I only bought it originally cause it was cheep, and wanted a drink but glad I did.
PRUNE JUICE?! A WARRIOR’sS DRINK!
The nursing homes superhero fluid
i would worry if i had to go out
No ones deaf
@@CricketEnglandlol. google it. You will understand the caps lock
You are a man of honor!
The banana flavor you get in candies and ice cream is actually what bananas used to taste like, today we eat a variety called the Cavendish but the flavorings were made to emulate the Gros Michel version which was the main version until it was hit with a blight and became unviable in the 1950s.
That is genuinely interesting, thank you.
@@davidf2281 You are very welcome, Sir.
It's so sad that Cavendish is the only banana sold in western countries. Especially as it doesn't really taste that good. In South East Asia, where they're native and grow wild everywhere, there are at least 20 over varieties. They're also more resistant to the blight that unfortunately attacks cloned commercial plants.
This is a myth, actually. Gros Michels still exist. You can get them. I've had one. They don't taste anything like banana flavouring. They taste almost exactly like a Cavendish but stronger.
The reason banana flavouring doesn't taste like bananas is because it's not meant to. It was invented as a _pear_ flavouring. It's still used for pear flavour things in most of Europe. Try it, bite a pear and see if you don't notice there's a strong "fake banana" flavour in there. But pears were unpopular in the US at the time, and bananas were a hit new foreign treat. So they just marketed it as banana to people who didn't know any better, and it's stayed that way ever since.
@@Chocomint_Queen OP didn't say Gros Michel was extinct, they said it was unviable, which is perfectly true.
I'm sure someone already mentioned this, but the banana flavour in sweets is what bananas used to taste like. They changed how they taste because the flavour was developed on a different type of banana which (you should look this up because I'm going from memory and could be talking out my ass) died out due to some plant disease
they died out due to a fungus and it spread SUPER quick because we farm bananas by cloning, not by breeding.
no you are correct but this process is a regular one not just happened once, ie our current banana species will die out and be replaced one day
Man the internet is a funny place
Came to say this. Although funny they've never developed a modern banana flavouring over the decades since that banana variety died out
Came to say the same thing, they were called Gros Michel
I tried a durian flavoured drink while in China and, I must say, "feet in a glass" is such a spot on description of how it smells.
100%
Barry we need more of your Brother in Law! He's great!
The Ramune bottle (the pineapple one) has a marble in it because that's how they traditionally used to close bottles in Asia before the invention of crown caps. The marble is not intended to reseal the bottle again.
Legend! Thanks for the info
@@mrbarrylewis Oh, and please bring on Tom more often, he has a hilarious laughter.
Its not meant to, but people do use it for that purpose
We frequent our Asian market but never tried beverages. Next time we will grab a couple and try them. So much fun. And I really like your brother in law. Seems like a nice guy. It will be great getting to know him. You guys will make a good team.
Thanks a bunch, he'll be in front and behind the camera so I thought it be good to show his face so people get to know him!
@@mrbarrylewis great idea. He is very likable seems very nice. I’m glad you are getting extra help and it will be fun getting to know him.
I'll recommend getting some canned fruit drinks if you want to try something a bit less out there than the durian or grass jelly stuff. This Asian place near me stocks pomegranate and guava juice, which are both amazing and can be hard to find otherwise. I'm also quite partial to the sugar cane juice.
Tom's a great addition. I can see a clear resemblance in him to your daughters, must be some strong genes on Mrs. B's side!
A Barry video in January means only one thing, January is nearly over! The month seems to have been going on forever!
Haha yes indeedy! I wasn't sure how long I would have off January wise, so there may be a little break in the next week or 2 whilst working on a few bits, but back on the horse now!
January has gone by super slow. Odd.
Loving Tom, absolute legend. Love the deadpan deliveries. Right up my alley
Darn it Barry! Now you have to do a follow up video on the “basil” seed planting!!! And you better do so!!!!
I will keep everyone updated lol
I didn't realise Tom was your new camera man. Good shout going for family to be around when filming will keep things more natural! Hopefully we will see more of him featuring too.
Excellent video, so glad you tried Milkis, one of my favorite drinks! Great selection of drinks.
Grass jelly is a chinese herbal jelly that has some medicinal properties against "heaty" conditions.
The nata de coco (fermented coconut chewy fibre jelly) is better served cold.
The strange thing is the fine on durian is in Singapore where durian is popular.
The marble drink is the japanese soft drink ramune.
Basil seed drink was called a tadpole drink in my childhood and has the texture of soaked chia seeds.
It was great to learn more about these drinks, it is always intriguing to see these on the shelves and it makes it so much easier to decide after watching content like this😅
Please keep on with the tasting videos🎉
The marble is in the Ramune bottle to create a seal under pressure. When you drink it from the bottle you need to have the dimpled side of the bottle facing down. The dimples prevent the marble from blocking the mouth piece. 😅
The glass marble thingy was used when they shipped tonic to India back in the day, when India was British. You wouldn't want them to go without their G&T, would you. Brilliant solution!
So other people have almost certainly said, but ramune (the drink with the marble) is a traditional Japanese soda and that was a way that they could seal it via pressure without a bottle cap way back in the day that has carried on partially as a novelty and partially as tradition. I personally find that they tend to fizz up a ton like you saw, but they are quite nice, especially the default flavor, which is just kind of sweet and kind of generically "candy" flavored. They're good fun, especially for kids who aren't familiar with it as a concept, so they make a really good fun treat on occasion if you have an Asian grocery nearby.
Walmart has some in their Asian section.
Love this. Would love to see you try more so fascinating
I know you're not huge on tea, but the range of teas in style and flavor available in an Asian grocery might make a fun tasting video with you and the Mrs. The difference between a plain black tea, a milk tea (generally black tea based), a green tea, and an oolong, plus whatever else catches your eye might be interesting and fun! Personally I love plain unsweetened black tea and oolongs, plus some of the not-technically-tea options like barley or buckwheat tea when I can get them. Roasted barley tea is especially nice iced when it's very hot out in the summer!
That's a great video idea & I'd definitely love to see it.
If you ever get the chance to try Calpis I highly recommend it. Grape Ramune is also a fave and if you ever see any Japanese peach drink always get it. Sesame milk is 10/10 as well. Great video, you should get Tom in more vids 👍
Aahhh the noodle isle... Initially thought you said the nude isle. 😅
That's a completely different video idea lol
I'd love to see you put the cobtainers in best to worst order as you taste them. Helps me conceptualise better. Great video 😊
Please do more things like this, it’s hilarious watching your faces! Especially the last one 😂😂😂
The bottle is like a cod bottle they find the marbles from them all over the Thames foreshore. I love mudlarking videos. Those have been around a long long time
Welcome back Barry! Hope you, Ms B and the girls had a great holiday.
thankyou
Good video and nice to see your brother with you. More of these reviews please. 👍
Love tom he's a great addition 🎉 great work Barry
Whoa, didn't expect a Barry video this week! Nice surprise!
Cheers :)
The Ramune bottles man as teenagers we used to smash them in the parking lot like delinquents, to get the little marbles out 😂😂 also soooo good to see you back Barry we love you, so excited 🥰🥰🥰
This was so funny 🤣🤣🤣Thanks Barry n Tom 😊👍
Barry & Tom should Totally try the jelly belly chocolate sparkling water for a drink tasting video
“Asian thirst nourishment” best line ever 🫢🤣
We used to get milk bottles with marbles in them when my grandparents were little.
That's cool what is the reason for them, is it an air tight seal (bayaya?)
Yaaay my January is considerably brighter now 🙌
I grew up eating grass jelly dessert- like jello with honey syrup on it, but I love the drink for on the go and love getting the jelly as I drink!
When I finished work I still had 5 bowls of noodles in my filing cabinet I gave away. Was a special at a supermarket I went to. There are fancy places in the city now too.
One of my favorite videos you’ve made yet! Made me laugh and sick to my stomach at the same time! LOL no offense of course to those who like those drinks!
I’ve had basil seed with coconut sorbet and lychee spherifications in Malaysia! Gorgeous!
Welcome back barry! Can't wait for another year of amazing content
Cheers mate
@@mrbarrylewis 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Awesome video Barry!
To answer your question about the marble in there, its a stopper!
That specific type of bottle is called a "Codd-neck" and it helps to stop the drink from pouring out.
The carbonation in the drink held the glass sphere against a seal inside the neck of the bottle!
I love that name! Thanks for the info :)
@@mrbarrylewis They are a Victorian invention created by Hiram Codd in the 1870s. You will find loads of old bottles for sale or found on excavations with this design (ones that weren't broken by children for the marbles). In modern times they are mostly used for that brand of drink in Japan and it's just "their" thing.
Fun video. I can see so much of Phoebe in Mrs Barry and uncle Tom 😊
Love seeing you two together, hopefully its not a one time thing! 😄
I like Tom! 🤗 I know (think...?!) he's your new camera guy, but can we get some more videos with him? Myabe trying what you make or something? Love the family vibe you've gone with for the channel!
Hey! Yep, I was gonna call him Cam for fun as Cam wasn't Cam's real name lol! But yeah this is his first video and will likely feature often going forward in some capacity.
He's back ladies and gentlemen!!!.
:) Easing my way back in lol
the marble is there because soda bottles used to be sealed with a marble a long time ago, before bottle caps, and ramune never stopped
I like Tom, he fits right in!
The Japanese ramune are staples when I restock my Japanese snacks XD I personally love melon and lychee flavors. The chewiness of the jellies is definitely something you acclimate to. I personally don’t mind as I like aloe drinks
nice!
I was just thinking I could do with a Barry Lewis whilst eating my tea tonight, but it's January , but whatdaya know! :)
haha yeah I take a week or so off of making videos, but was still a busy bee, hopefully back on the horse now
I have never tried any of these drinks but I have always enjoyed eating grass jelly (basically jelly having a slightly liquorice flavour) often served with ice-cream; and durian fruit (which tastes and smells like very ripe soft Camembert cheese which I also enjoy). Your description of the Milky drink reminds me of a drink popular in Hong Kong eateries serving cafeteria-stye food i.e. "Cream Soda and Milk". A half-glass of fresh milk mixed with a half-glass of Schweppes Cream Soda is a surprisingly pleasant drink.
Well the basil seed wouldn't germinate because they boil it first to get them to that form
I quite like the grass jelly drink. I always buy a can of it whenever I go to an Asian supermarket.
Im from NZ and we often have Ramune and Calpis (similar to milkis) here in sushi shops etc and I love them. I LOVE Calpis but the only one we get here is so high in sugar and that makes me sad, trying to be healthier. Ramune is so fun, I love the candy you can get. I had to show my Korean partner how to open them, it was so sweet he hadn't seen them and was so surprised when it popped!
(I just reread this and it makes me sound so old XD)
Love this video seeing the reactions after lol 😂
The ramune bottle is a codd neck bottle that was an early solution to transporting pressurised water in a glass bottle.
Good video! Next time you should explore and try some of those noodles from all the aisles!
for the ramune the marble is literally what you push the top into to open. Its literally there as the "lid" like a cork. There are actully groves in the side of its chamber so you can rest it in them so you can drink without it blocking it.
The marble soda is like, intended to be resealable while being more recyclable, also like, not requiring you to thread a metal bottle cap to close your drink off
The mabell is how fizzy drinks were sealed a long time ago in the UK
Some parts of the UK (like here in Birmingham) still call fizzy drinks pop because of the pop the marble makes when it's opened
Yay nice to see you back mate
cheers buddy
i liked your special guest, very spectacular explosion with the marble drink
One look at that basil seed drink made me think of Frogspawn 😂
I've had bubble tea before with tapicoa pealrs/fruit pearls, really like the fruit pearls as popping those and getting a fruity hit is great 8D
I'd love an update on the basil seed on whether or not they'll grow! haha
LOVE Basil Seed Drink!
Old timey drink bottles used to have the marble in them too. Kids used to smash them to get the marble out so the bottles are rare now. They use too much glass to make so they stopped making them.
Barry. Soon there will be 1,000,000 million subscribers. it's just great. you will need to prepare a big pie.🎂🖐️
Fun fact! Banana flavouring isn't based on the Cavendish banana we have today, but the Gros Michel banana, that (mostly) went extinct in 1965! People who remember the Gros Michel banana *including my grandparents*, claim banana flavouring tastes EXACTLY like a Gros Michel!
You can still order a small box of Gros Michel bananas online for approx $127 CAN (plus shipping and handling)!
Great video Barry, I think you could send some of those drinks to Ashens for a Christmas Present.
I remember that jelly grass thing from one of EmmyMade's videos, it's fun to see the difference in response to the jelly substances in these drinks though, I think I'd be pretty put off by it too, but some people love the texture of snotty bits in their drinks... :P
Welcome back!!!!!!!!
the drink with the marble is called ramune (rah moo nay) and The marble's function is to keep the carbonation inside the codd-necked bottles. The marble is forced into the bottle's opening by the pressure created by the carbonation, and as a result, the bottle remains sealed until it is opened
Please invite Tom to join you again!
8:26 - You learn something new every day. In some parts of Asia you have to carry a durian with you on the subway :P
I wish I had come across a pineapple ramune before now. My first one from a Japanese food box seemed to be a bit of a joke in their Christmas box. They gave everyone cream stew flavour!
That kind of bottle is called a Cobb Neck and it was common in the 19th century.
Codd...After Hiram Codd of London who designed and patented it.
@@MrPixiepantz Thanks mate! Autocorrect got me 😆
I'll have to try and find some Milkis. Looks and sounds interesting.
I love ramunes of various flavor but the original Ramune flavor is something special.
And Calpis soda which is basically a milk soda
BTW, Barry, if you get a chance to come across a drink called "Bandung" at your local asian market, give it a go if you haven't already. It's a bright pink beverage that's made with rose-flavored syrup and milk. It's not carbonated of course, but I believe it's more agreeable with non-asian tastebuds.
sounds really nice!
Loves your videos barry hope and the family are well
Thanks, how are you?
@@mrbarrylewis I'm good thanks k you
Awesome! There's some drinks i'd like to try myself! :D
That basil seed drink looked like frogspawn 💀
Milkis reminiscent of lemonade or cream soda with a scoop of vanilla ice cream floating on top?
Btw, 'I've got a wet pug' sounds like a new euphemism 😂😂😂😂😂
the marble bottle is a modern Codd bottle a design from the 1800s. it is still popular in japan and india. :)
Sweet soup for dessert is popular in China, I wonder if the drinks with bits in are an extension of that? Personally I enjoy drinks with chewy bits in. Bubble tea with tapioca, popping boba, nata de coco are all good. I've had grass jelly (made from a powder mix from the Chinese supermarket) as well, it's very refreshing cold from the fridge in really hot weather.
I love grass jelly drink so much
aww no Pocari Sweat? Kickapoo Joy Juice? missed opportunity. lol. You could do one with all the coffee/tea.soup/dessert in a can types if your asian store has them.
Woah bil is pheobes double!! Both handsome and pretty. But man they could swap heads! Great video great duo x
Fantastic video! I’ve seen many of those drinks on the shelves at some markets close to me. My questions have been answered and I’ll leave them for someone else to enjoy. The snack aisles, however, are a completely different story.
haha yes! Salt and vinegar pork scratchings for the win!