Happy Friday: Red Bean Green Tea Frapp
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Apparently, this is a really popular Starbucks drink over in Singapore during the summer. Red beans floating on top of a drink. Yum!
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I found out about green tea frap about a month ago and I love it!! I am from Japan and it tasts like greentea icecream I ate when I was little. And yes, I did eat it with red beans so I would love to try this.
I miss that icecream too~~ 🙂
If I saw this, I probably wouldn’t have purchased it. But now that I read the post and your comment I am intrigued! I would now try it if I had the chance.
Very interesting combo?! I dont think I would try it though! LOL! 🙂 Frapps are yummy, I wills stick with mocha though! 🙂
Our daughter lived in China fro a year and loved the green pea ice cream.
How interesting! I would love to give this a go… Yummy 🙂
Love this post. Usually your Friday posts are sappy/sentimental. Tooo funny
Agree!!
to each his own. not for me though.
that’s close to MY
MY is Malaysia
I’ve had homemade red bean ice cream and it was surprisingly yummy!
It’s probably one of those things that sound gross, but taste good. I think I’ll pass, though…
This looks too much like guacamole for me to be willing to drink it.
I am pretty sure it is nothing like guacamole….:)
Speaking of guacamole (and avocados), I recently tried some avocado ice cream from a local Asian market. It was SO good! They have sweet bean paste ice cream, too. Yum!
I make avocado chocolate milkshakes for my kids all the time. They love them! I know that in other countries, avocados are treated more as they fruit that they are, than as a vegetable. And chocolate and avocado go surprisingly well together.
Mmmmmm I love green tea ice cream and red bean ice cream so I am sure it is amazing!
I want to try this just to be crazy and I’m sure it will surprise me and taste delicious.
I was born and raised in China, red bean is commonly used in varies desserts including pastries, toppings on shaved ice, filling for buns…. and this red bean and green tea combo is fabulous, I made it at home when I had time, it was always a big hit.
I’m with you on this. It’s very yummy. It’s very common in Asian cafe/tea house. If you are in Sacramento, go to Bambu. They have that and other delicious drinks.
Yum!
I really hope they sell this in the US! I LOVE sweetened red beans, and I even make my own and enjoy. Especially in the summer time, alot of Japanese enjoy to eat shaved ice of green tea syrup with sweetened red beans. Miss them sooo much!!
Ill pass on that one. It would give you Crazy Gas…lol
LOL
usually beans only cause bad gas if mixed with meat, at least in my experience
Looks so yummy!!! I wish the US had this too!!
Oh dear, I LOVE adzuki beans. I’d be more than delighted to try it if they had it here in the US (I wish)! They do have regional flavors that they don’t have in the US. I had an orange brulee latte in Japan and it was DIVINE.
Yum yum yum!!! Red beans with dessert–so good. First had at an Asian cafe in college in a dessert called ‘bing’. Then, got hooked on red bean paste in pastries/desserts/snacks when studying/traveling in Asia. I’m sure the combo with the green tea frap would be very good!!
is this sort of like hiding your vegetables in other foods?
i can’t wrap my head around beans in tea.
i guess they use beans instead of whipped cream.
Be adventerous! You should try anything that’s ethical (ie no human meat, etc) amd that you’re not allergic to!
I love green tea and red beans! It reminds me of desserts from China and Korea. It’s really yummy. Try it, you might like it.
I wonder if Starbucks will try to add boba to their drinks.
That would be amazing!!!
Maybe we could start a petition??
i’m not a coffee drinker, so maybe i’m biased. but I just find starbucks gross. I have tried multiple drinks there…the refreshers, the teas, the lemonade mixes, most recently green tea peach lemonade…the majority of it I find myself unable to get past the first sip…I’m a huge tea drinker, but their tea is bad bad bad. I thought hot chocolate, where can that go wrong? Apparently it can because everytime I order it, even if I say extra extra extra hot and extra chocolate, it tastes like luke warm milk. I think i’m in the minority, especially near Seattle…but give me some swiss miss, or teavana anyday:)
Teavana is owned by Starbucks. =)
Now that’s funny
That’s true, and u can earn stars on ur Starbucks card with any purchase from teavana!:-)
They own it but I highly doubt they use it in the store. Maybe that’s why they sell it with a different brand name… saving the best tea for the tea business. Taste way too different and I agree with tilla maybe its also on the way they serve it.
you can use your starbucks card in teavana. And no problem. We use it. Now teavana single icetea only $1 till tomorrow.(If you have google offer or print the coupon from their facebook.)
You should try Teavana. (This week I drink 3 cups..I drink berry kiwi)
The drink does not look appealing to the eye or to my guts lol. It should be sold with an I pooped today tshirt 😀 Ha!
Drinks like this one is also popular in the Philippines. We have one that is shaved ice, jackfruit, coconut jelly, red beans with evaporated milk and purple yams. Now how is that for a strange combo! But it is the most delicious thing to eat and drink in the hot summers. Before moving to the US, I thought it’s something EVERYONE eats. We also have these mung bean pastries that are so awesome. And you know, I was never that gassy back home!
Bean pie is a southern thing, so using them as a topping isn’t really surprising.
Red Beans (adzuki) are a common dessert staple in Asia; they’re sweetened and are popular toppings for almost anything. Every year Starbucks Singapore and Starbucks Malaysia put on a pair of specialty drinks; these were from last year. This year its Mocha or Green Tea Frapuccino with White Chocolate Pudding.
Hello from Taiwan! I am visiting Taipei right now (actually sitting in a Starbucks lol)! Their special frapp is Green Tea White Chocolate pudding. Yum!
I would love to try the azuki red bean one in Singapore. Like others said, the red bean is an Asian staple. They are half the size of a pea, soft and sweet (after you had enormouse amts of sugar of course).
I was in Japan last month. Forgot to see what kind of green tea frap they had available there!