Ginger Drink

It sound ominous, doesn’t it? “Ginger Drink.” Reminds me of drinking Malk, now with Vitamin R! ;)

Let me assure you that this isn’t ominous at all. It’s dehydrated ginger and honey, and that’s it. It is also the second most brilliant thing ever when you are sick.

Feeling nauseous? Drink some of this. Sniffly, throat hurting, feeling achy and generally terrible? Drink some of this. It’ll perk you right up, seriously. Boiling water, maybe a little milk, and you’re good.

I may love it because of family associations, though. Y’see, my aunt had this family remedy for illness. Peel + slice up fresh ginger, then boil in a pot of water until the water gets really, really gingery. Pour it into your mug over crushed red chilli pepper flakes. Add a little honey or sugar if you like to sweeten it up. Milk also acceptable.

She was right, too. I felt better every time. The combination of ginger and chilli peppers can lick just about any feeling of sickness.

This is a lot like that, only with less effort involved. When you’re sick, chances are good you probably don’t feel like peeling ginger. (The slicing’s easy, but peeling ginger sucks out loud.) I’ve got a stockpile of this on hand for anytime I’m feeling at all under the weather. :)

I don’t really know what to say about this tea except that I.Love.it. I love ginger anything so having this drink satiates my ginger lusts. Ginger tea is also good, this is for the ladies, with blood flow and cramps should you not have a heating pack around when in need. I find that this one is much more potent than other ginger packets and teas. It comes in little granules and because of how intense the ginger is, half a packet will do nicely.

This ginger tea is the best instant ginger tea that I have ever had. It is perfect for those days that you have a sore throat as it burns on the way down and leaves your throat feeling minty. It has a strong ginger taste to it that just warms you up and makes you feel better on your sick days. I highly recommend this tea for those that like strong ginger teas and those that have a sore throat.

I find the flavor of this “tea” to not be very enjoyable, which came as a surprise because I am very fond of spicy things. And this drink is definitely spicy to the point where I am sure most people I know couldn’t even handle it. Seems like it’d be good to rid a stuffy nose though, but then again so is our pharmacy’s basic nose spray and that doesn’t make me struggle through a cup of liquid lava.

Right now, I am drinking a big mug of only one full sachet that I’ve dissolved in hot boiled water, to try and calm the burning stomach acid. It feels a little counterproductive to drink something so spicy, however main reason I got this drink is for it’s ailing properties, not per say for it’s taste, though it would’ve been nice had I been able to appreciate the flavor more as well.

I think this will be better enjoyed for it’s flavor when I’d use about a teaspoon from a sachet and put that in a cup of chai latte or something of the sort. To drink this purely though, is too much for me to enjoy. Anyway. It’s now been a while since I’ve finished this drink to try and get my stomach to calm down. It didn’t help at all. So I personally do not recommend this tea, neither for it’s flavor or the medicinal approach. It’s personal though.

I know this is not really tea per se, but it is already in the data base so I thought I would give my review.

I have become addicted to bento. For most of my life I have been addicted to Asian cuisine, very specifically Japanese. And every once in a while I fancy myself an amazing chef and try my hand at making some delicious food. Just a note, Japanese chefs are amazingly skilled, that stuff is hard to pull off and make taste good. But even harder to pull it off and make it look good too. Throughout my bento quest I have been doing a lot of experimenting. So long story, I decided this weekend I was going to go all out and make sushi. I haven’t made sushi in such a long time. I ended up doing maki-sushi, a whole bunch of different onigiri, tamygoyaki, and some lettuce rolls. I wasn’t even hungry by the time I had everything prepared.

So anyway the point of this story is that I had to go shopping for ingredients, and I couldn’t find everything I wanted and I was scouring the shelves and came across this. And of course, I had to buy it.

I was not expecting too much, but if you were sitting in the room with me, this was my review: coughs out loud and then “WOW!”.

Holy spice, Ginger Drink! I actually used more water then recommended too. This comes packaged in individual servings. The granules are actually a fare size, they reminded me of yeasty coloured pellet fish food (gross, I know). The smell was kind of ginger but you could also strongly smell honey. After the tea is dissolved it smells strongly ginger, but it is almost not like real ginger. Is there such a thing as fake ginger? The taste of this is definitely kick you in the face ginger. There is quite a bit of spice too it. There is a very strong honey sweetness. There is more honey then I would have liked but this will work.

Someone in one of the threads was asking about teas for your nose? Well this one would definitely get your nose running and your sinuses clear.

Ugh, PMS of doom, complete with nausea. I figured ginger might help, so my sweetie made me a cup of this. It’s sweet and spicy and incredibly potent – it tastes like pure ginger with sugar, which I think it basically is. Usually the back of the throat heat from it is nice, but last night it was a little too much.