Tau huay, soya milk and bubble teas
Tau huay or beancurd is a whitish soft tofu usually added with liquid sugar. The sugar can be normal or brown sugar. One can also request for less sugar. Tau huay is a dessert sold at many soya bean chains such as Mr Bean and Jollibean. You can also find them at many drinks stalls in housing estates or at food centres. Tau huay is usually sold and eaten while still warm.
Soya bean milk drink can be either hot or cold depending on preference. Tau huay and soya bean milk are typically sold for around $1.20 to $1.50 at chain soya bean stores. But if you go to hawker centre you can get beancurd for only 60 cents a bowl and soya bean milk for only 50 cents a cup.
You can also find soya milk in packet or can drinks sold in many supermarkets islandwide but it is not the same as buying the original tau huay or a cup of freshly made soya bean milk at a hawker or food centre. Tau huay is delicious, relatively cheap and it's filling too.
Tau huay and soya bean milk from chain stores. There are also soya milk blended with fruits such as watermelon, honeydew and papaya or soya milk combined with almond nuts but that will cost a bit more, $2 upwards. We know fruits and nuts are good for health. There are are also chendol soya milk, a combination of the green chendol jellies and red beans with soya milk and grass jelly (chinchau) soya milk. Both chendol and chinchau are popular local desserts here.
Soya bean has its competitors in the form of bubble teas. Bubble teas or milk tea with round chewy jellies that can get stuck in your throat has many variations and flavours that include ginger, honey, berries, etc., that are supposedly good for health. But the amount of sugar inside the bubble tea is actually detrimental to the health. So many bubble tea shops asked customers what level of sugar that prefer.
Bubble teas originate from Taiwan. My favourite is thirst quencher icy cold honey lemon juice with kumquat that sells for around $2.50 and without any toppings or jellies. That is not exactly bubble teas but lemon juice beats sugary milk tea anytime in this hot and humid weather.
And then there is also the alltime south-east asian favourites, that has Hollywood stars craving for it too, for it's supposedly health benefits. The good old thirst quenching coconut juice. Coconut juice packed some good vitamins like potassium. Some say its better than eating bananas, but bananas are certainly cheaper than coconuts! Slurping and scalping the soft whitish content directly from the coconut fruit is enjoyable. Though you may sometimes get the hard one. It costs about $2 to $4 depending where you get them.
Nowadays most coconuts are imported from neighbouring countries as even though Singapore is a tropocal country it is just too small to produce enough of it. Maybe at Pulau Ubin one may drop in front of you. And I love slurping coconut juice at one of the stalls near the jetty on the island.
Soya bean, gong cha and coconut juice beats drinking coke and sugary sodas even though a can of coke or sodas may cost much less, if you buy them from supermarkets. These days most coconut juice comes from packed carton box and a litre will cost around $3.50 and they come from a variety of brands, mostly from Thailand. So even though Singapore is a tropical country, drinking coconut juice is a luxury.
Soya bean milk drink can be either hot or cold depending on preference. Tau huay and soya bean milk are typically sold for around $1.20 to $1.50 at chain soya bean stores. But if you go to hawker centre you can get beancurd for only 60 cents a bowl and soya bean milk for only 50 cents a cup.
You can also find soya milk in packet or can drinks sold in many supermarkets islandwide but it is not the same as buying the original tau huay or a cup of freshly made soya bean milk at a hawker or food centre. Tau huay is delicious, relatively cheap and it's filling too.
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Soya bean has its competitors in the form of bubble teas. Bubble teas or milk tea with round chewy jellies that can get stuck in your throat has many variations and flavours that include ginger, honey, berries, etc., that are supposedly good for health. But the amount of sugar inside the bubble tea is actually detrimental to the health. So many bubble tea shops asked customers what level of sugar that prefer.
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And then there is also the alltime south-east asian favourites, that has Hollywood stars craving for it too, for it's supposedly health benefits. The good old thirst quenching coconut juice. Coconut juice packed some good vitamins like potassium. Some say its better than eating bananas, but bananas are certainly cheaper than coconuts! Slurping and scalping the soft whitish content directly from the coconut fruit is enjoyable. Though you may sometimes get the hard one. It costs about $2 to $4 depending where you get them.
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Soya bean, gong cha and coconut juice beats drinking coke and sugary sodas even though a can of coke or sodas may cost much less, if you buy them from supermarkets. These days most coconut juice comes from packed carton box and a litre will cost around $3.50 and they come from a variety of brands, mostly from Thailand. So even though Singapore is a tropical country, drinking coconut juice is a luxury.
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