Maxwell House Coffee 맥스웰 하우스 커피

Maxwell House Coffee 맥스웰 하우스 커피... 오리지날 (Original)

Here's the English side of it.

Product Name: Maxwell House 맥스웰 하우스... I'm concluding that "original" in Korean can either be spelled as "오리지널"  or "오리지날" probably depends on how you pronounce it. Could it also be that "original" in Korean may also mean "natural" in flavor? Such as in the case of this coffee drink, original might mean pure black coffee without milk and other artificial flavors (hazelnut, caramel, etc.).

Hole in the Pocket: PhP 30 - 35.00 / can (Mini Stop).


First Impression: "Good to the last drop" eh? Let's see...


Taste buds say: It's plain iced / cold black coffee. It tastes a little better than instant coffee + water + sugar, but only by a few points... kinda "blah".


Reminds me of: Plain iced coffee


K-rating: 2/5 ... I'd only buy it if I were too lazy to make my own coffee.

Milkis 밀키스 Carbonated Milk and Yoghurt Drink

Product Name: Milkis 밀키스, like a “kiss” 키스 from a “milk”..??? 우유키스... breastfeeding...^^;;

Hole in the Pocket: Php 25

First Impression: White, blue, moon and stars make for a good can. “New feeling of soda beverage”? Let’s see...

Taste buds say: Milkis doesn’t only have a “kiss” of milk... it’s probably 50% skim milk (more like a “slobber”), 30%carbon dioxide and 20% artificial sugars/flavors. Did it give me a “new feeling of soda beverage”? Mmm...er... yeah...it did give me a new feeling... a weird feeling... but nonetheless it’s still “new” compared to drinking garden variety carbonated drinks. Kudos to Lotte for thinking outside the box and coming up with this milk soda, which some people compare to vanilla ice cream + Sprite. I read that it comes in other milk fruit flavors as well, so far I haven’t seen them being sold here, but when I do you can bet your behinds that I’ll be posting a review here. Drinking Milkis made me wonder if there’s already carbonated coffee in the market...? *burp*

Reminds me of: Yakult + Sprite... it is made of yoghurt after all. Glad Milkis was able to balance the flavors. By the way, if you’ve tried drinking Magkeolli 막걸리 (Korean rice wine), they look the same. You can troll someone with Milkis, make them think that you’re handing them a bowl of Makgeolli.

K-rating: 3 / 5... unique but not exceptional.