Bael Fruit Iced Tea ( Nam Matoom )

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This is considered a health drink in Thailand, it's supposed to be good for cleansing the stomach and helping digestion. You can see Bael fruit, it's available dried in packets from Asian grocers. Serve warm or cold.

Ingredients
4-6 Dried Matoom Pieces
4-6 Tablespoons Sugar
400 ml Water

Preparation
1. Boil the water in a pan.
2. Add the matoom and continue simmering for 15 minutes.
3. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved, adjust the sweetness to your own tastes.
4. Leave to cool.
5. If you want iced tea, chill it in the fridge and serve over crushed ice. For iced tea, it is better to slightly over-sweeten it, as it won't taste so sweet when it's cold.

Bi Tua Drink ( Nam Bi Tua )

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Bi tua is a Thai green reed that can be purchased in asian grocers. When you pulp it in water, it makes the water green and releases a bubblegum like flavour. This drink is a completely natural taste without any of the artificial flavours of factory made drinks!

Ingredients
20 gms Bi Tua
250 ml Water
120 gms Sugar
50 gms Crushed Ice

Preparation
1. Chop the Bi Tua into 2 cm lengths, put into a food processor together with the water and blend until the fibres are completely broken into the water.
2. Sieve the liquid to remove any pulp, and put into a saucepan.
3. Add the sugar, bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes, then leave to cool.
4. To serve crush the ice, pile the ice in a glass and pour the drink over it.

Young Coconut Juice ( Ma Praw On )

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In Thailand we eat young coconut much more than old coconut. We use it to make desserts, we make drinks from the flesh and use it for many recipes. We also use it like this - we drink the juice from inside. If you have only drank the water from old brown coconut, then you are in for a very pleasant surprise, a young coconut is full of sweet delicious juice. To open, use a machete or Thai cleaver and make a few cuts around the top to open it, as in the photograph.

Creamed Young Coconut ( Nam Maprow Horm )

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This drink is made from the flesh of young coconut. It needs to be young coconut, old coconut (the brown fibrous kind you see in many western supermarkets) doesn't work for this. You can just scoop out the meat from the coconut with a spoon to make it, you can also drink the water inside which is delicious itself. For the photograph I kept some of the flesh to decorate it, you can see the soft coconut flesh in the side of the glass.

Ingredients
30 gms Young Coconut Meat
100 gms Sugar
200 ml Water
50 gms Crushed Ice

Preparation
1. Boil the water with the sugar until it dissolves, leave to cool down to form a syrup.
2. Put the syrup into a blender, add the meat from the young coconut, and the crushed ice.
3. Blend for 30 seconds and serve when it's cold.

Citrus Banana Punch ( Nam Gluay Ban )

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Some echos of Thailand, this punch uses banana and Thai oranges to create a semi-thick non-alcoholic punch suitable for children. If you can find them, use a sour orange, with plenty of vitamin C.

Ingredients for 2 People
3 Bananas
1 Green Orange
100 gms Sugar
300 gms Water
100 gms Crushed Ice

Preparation
1. Boil the water with the sugar until the sugar has dissolved and leave it to cool to form a syrup.
2. Chop the bananas, put into a blender, add the syrup and crushed ice.
3. Blend until smooth.
4. Put into the glass garnished with a slice of orange and slices of banana.

Lemon Soda ( Num Ma Now )

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I was shocked when I first visited Europe and when I asked for a lemon soda, I was given a fizzy clear sickly sweet drink that had never been near a lemon. That was my first brush with bottle lemonade (yuck). Here's how I make lemon soda in Thailand. If you've never made fresh lemonade, you may be suprised at the taste, just as I was suprised at the taste of supermarket bottled lemonade! Imagine a lazy summer day by the pool sipping lemonade when you drink it.

Ingredients for Family
3 Lemons
500 ml Soda Water (Fizzy Mineral Water)
200 ml Water
150 gms Sugar
200 gms Ice

Preparation
1. Boil the water with sugar until it has completely dissolved, then leave it to cool. This is your sweetening syrup.
2. Squeeze the lemons to get juice.
3. Then mix the syrup with lemon juice, soda-water and stir it together. Add the syrup slowly to adjust the sweetness to your own tastes.
4. Put ice it to the glass and pour the lemon soda over it, its nice to present with slices of lemon and orange in it.

Iced Condensed Milk (Num Yen)

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This drink is made in Thailand using 'Hellbruboy' (a contraction of it's full name 'Hale's Blue Boy' Brand Syrup) a brand name sticky sweet red syrup drink that is added to hot water to make a hot drink. It can be bought in Thai supermarkets, look for the Thai name เฮลซ์บลูบอย. You can substitute strawberry milk shake syrup, it has a similar look but a different taste, sorry there really is no suitable substitute.
Ingredients
2 Tablespoons Sweet Red Syrup Thai drink
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Teaspoon Condensed Milk
2 Tablespoons Sugar
150 ml Water
100 gms Crushed Ice

Preparation
1. Boil the water
2. Add the HellbruBoy, milk and sugar into a cup, add the boiling water and mix with spoon.
3. Leave the 'brew' to cool.
4. Put the crushed ice into a serving glass, pour in the 'brew' and pour the condensed milk over the top.
5. Serve immediately.

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