Biscoitos de Polvilho

Review nr. 43!! From the U.S.A to South America, lets go to Brazil! We'll now be tasting "biscoitos de polvilho".
"Biscoitos de polvilho" are made from a simple dough of water, milk, oil and "polvilho azedo" (which is fermented cassada startch). The dough goes into the oven where it expands into a crunchy, airy snack.

Packaging: These come in a red and green plastic bag with the "Vale D'ouro" logo and letters anouncing that these "biscoitos" are pizza flavoured.

The "biscoitos": These are kind of shaped like irregular peanuts. They have a pale yellow color and smells slightly cheesy.

Flavour: These actually taste like pizza! The flavour is a mix of oregano and cheese, maybe a little tomato too. Really good, highly adictive. The texture is also lovely, airy and crunchy. I really like them

 Rating: 8 out of 10
Overall, I really like these, but I pretty much love everything that tastes like pizza, so I'm biased. Still, give them a shot!

Store: Glood

Price: 1,60 euros

Cherry 7Up

Review nr. 42!! 2º review of the 4 review marathon! Now guys, lets go from China to the U.S.A for some Cherry 7Up!!
So, I'm a big fan of regular 7Up, it's nice and refreshing, a total classic. Maybe that's why we only have regular 7Up here in Portugal. But in America they have other flavours such as this lovely looking Cherry 7Up. Let's taste it!

Packaging: Cherry 7Up comes in a pink can with the 7Up logo and a cute, bubble like pattern. The top and bottom of the can are a normal silver color.

The Drink: The drink is carbonated. I imagined it to be a pinkish color, I was wrong. The drink is clear in color, like regular 7Up (even better, less chemicals). It smells like cherries.

The Flavour:  This is pretty nice. It tastes a lot like artificial cherry, like cherry lollipops! It's not real cherry but it's good! I still prefer the regular one but I did enjoy this one too.

Rating: 7,5 out of 10
Overall, pretty nice if you like artificial cherry flavour. I still like the lemon/lime one better.

Store: Glood

Price: 0,80 euros

Moon Cake

Review nr. 41!! Hey guys, I'm back from my vacation so now you can expect daily updates again! Yay! So today I'll review 4 things, the first being this: the Chinese Moon Cake!
I first heard of these cakes when I was younger from a cartoon called "The Jackie Chan Adventures"(have you ever watched that? I used to really like those cartoons!).
These cakes are ususally made for the Mid-Autumn Festival, when people worship and watch the moon, hence the name.

Packaging: These come in a clear plastic tray surounded by clear plastic with some gold designes on the edges.

The Cake: This is a really beautiful cake, you don't see this kind of attention to detail in most pastries! The thin crust is highly decorated with a chinese character and some leaf-like patterns. The inside is traditionally filled with a thick layer of lotus seed or red bean paste and one or two egg yolks. Mine, however, has a red been paste filling and no egg yolks.

The Flavour: The outside is really thin and soft. The inside layer, although it's red bean paste like anpan, has a different flavour. I'll justify that with the amount of paste in these being a lot higher. This red bean paste has a sweet, really nutty flavour, like really sweet peanuts. It's nice but a little overly sweet for me.

Rating: 6,5 out of 10
Overall, too sweet for me but good. The kind of cake that is made to share, I don't believe a person could eat all of it alone.

Store: Supermercado Hua Tai Li

Price: 2,25 euros

Fresh Meat Dumplings

 Review nr. 40!! So guys, one of the asian food stores I shop at, Hua Ta Li, has a fresh food counter. It sells stuff like freshly made anpan and onigiri (japanese rice balls with seaweed). They also sell meat dumplings and when I saw they were still warm, I had to buy them!

Packaging: Since they are freshly made these just came in 3s in a simple plastic bag. (not much to say here)

The Dumplings: these are covered in soft white pasta that has been made slightly brown and crispy at the bottom from toutching the pan. The filling is a combination of meat, soy sauce and vegetables that is similar to the filling of a spring role.

The flavour: This is pretty damn yummy guys. The pasta is nice and soft and the inside is delishious! The mix of meaty, oniony, and soy sauce flavours is absolutely lovely. Will repurchase!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Overall, super yummy, if you can get it please do, it's rare to find them this fresh!

Store: Supermercado Hai Ta Li

Price: 1 euro

Lychee Jellow with "Nata de Coco"

 Review nr. 39!! This time guys, I am bringing you another asian jellow! You know how much I like these, right? So this is lychee jellow with little white cubes inside. At fist I thought the cubes where actual lychee, then I read the lids and found out they are actually "nata de coco". What is nata de coco? Well it is fermented coconut water that turns chewy and really sweet. Interesting...lets try it!

Packaging: These come in a two pack. The jellow cups come in a cardboard tray and are wrapped in clear plastic. The jellow cups have clear plastic bottoms and grean plastic lids with pictures of lychees.

The Jellow: the jellow is clear and contains some big white cubes of nata de coco. Those are a lot firmer and chewier than the jellow.

The Flavour: I really enjoyed this. The jellow has a lovely, sweet canned lychee taste and the nata de coco doesn't actually taste like coconut but it's sweet and chewy, great textural element.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Overall, really nice dessert. If you like lychees and jellow, you will surelly enjoy this!

Store: Supermercado Hua Ta Li

Price: 1,55 euros

Tropical Sunkist

 Review nr. 38!! Final review of the day!
Ok so, a couple of days ago I did a review on the Mango Sunkist (which wasn't very yummy unless you like the aftertaste of medicine...) but I bought another Sunkist flavour to try: Tropical Sunkist!

Packaging: the drink comes in a red can with a green floral design on the backround and the sunkist logo surounded by blue, wave like, lines. The top and bottom of the can are silver.

The Drink: The drink is carbonated. It's a really ligh, almost clear, white colour.

The Flavour: I don't know about you guys, but when I see something that is "tropical flavour" I asume it's a tutti-frutti, tropical fruits kind of flavour. Well I was wrong. As you may have suspected (like I did) from the colour, this does not taste tropical at all. It does, however, taste like sweet lemonade. I personally like it a lot (for those of you who are portuguese, it tastes like lemon Sumol, just a little more artificial) but I was not expecting this. It got me confused.

Rating: 7, 5 out of 10
Overall, really nice and tasty but not tropical at all. If you like lemon sodas, give it a try!

Store: (random 1 euro store I don't remember the name)

Price: 1 euro

Honey Sweetened Milk and Tea Drink

 Review nr. 37!! Second review of the day, alright!
Back to drinks. This is something that really caught my eye, tea with milk, sweetened with honey. I like tea with milk and I like honey so why not?

Packaging: The tea comes in a clear plastic bottle with an orange cap and a white and yellow banner around.

The Tea: The tea looks just like regular tea with milk: light brown, milky and opaque.

The Flavour: This one was a really big letdown for me guys. I'm a really big tea lover and regual black (english breakfast) tea is one of my favourites, and this was suposed to be just that. But, what do you know, this doesn't taste like black tea at all. This just tastes very florally and milky, you can't taste the honey or the regular black tea flavour at all. Plus it was not very sweet at all. I'm not sure if black tea in asia is different, but i defenetly did not like this drink. Sad moment guy :c

Rating: 3 out of 10
Overall, not my thing at all. If you like florally tea flavours, this can work for you.

Store: Supermercado Chen

Price: 0,95 euros