Wong Coco Young Coconut Juice With Pulp
674 days agoYup, it is about time we review something else other than yogurts and what-not. It is time to review coconut juice! No, I am not talking about the coconut milk which you get from squeezing the coconut meat (the milky white stuff used for making curries) but from the water that is in the coconut. Yes, the clear refreshing liquid! You know, when you break open a coconut, the liquid that flows from itself the coconut itself? I remember when I was much younger, we used to get the coconut fresh from the stall and the lady would break open for us and give us a cup of ice……it was extremely refreshing on a warm afternoon. And even till now, nothing beats the cold cooling coconut juice, right? However, nowadays it is rather difficult to find stalls selling coconut anymore.
Anyway, the next best option is to get canned coconut juice. Yes, they don’t taste like the real thing, but then which canned stuff tastes like the real thing? And you don’t have waste time breaking them open, you just flip the lid and you get something which resembles the real thing. I guess life is all about trade-offs. Anyway, I bought this Wong Coco Young Coconut Juice with Pulp from Sheng Siong. Quite cheap, about 70 cents per can.
Wong Coco Young Coconut Juice With Pulp. It means that they add some bits and pieces of coconut pulp to the drink.
There you have it, a clearer picture.
The ingredients are young Coconut juice, pulp and sugar. I guess the canning process does destroy some of the sweetness and flavour of the coconut juice – they have to add some sugar into the mix. Yes, the actual coconut juice is already quite sweet.
Hmmm….good iron content. Oh, the juice has no cholesterol, no colouring and no preservatives. Too bad for the sugar, but other than that, it should be a better option than those sugary soda drinks which we are so used to. But to tell you the truth, I find the taste of the canned drinks incomparable to the real thing. I think I would rather spend a dollar more to get a young coconut and break it open myself.
Hey2. The Wong Coco company actually belongs to my dad, and I was researching around for info on his products because he’s recently deceased, and I was just you know… reminiscing.
I notice that you mentioned it would take an extra dollar for you to get a whole real coconut. Over here, Indonesia, where the company is centered, a coconut costs less than a Singapore dollar.
Anyway, I am sad to say that I did not know that he even manufactured just canned juice, the man was extremely secretive.
Sorry for rambling. =D.
Lingga
Well, went to Singapore last year and had a chance to try out this wong coco coconut and pulp drinks….eventhou the taste is incomparable to the real one but i guess that’s the best of canned coconut drinks I ever taste….am considering to import it to my country but don’t know where shuld I direct my enquiry. Lingga….can you help me out here…