Another drink on my Christmas list... check! Red Velvet Hot Cocoa by Coffee Bean!
It was a very soothing cherry pastel pink colour. Apologies that the lighting was terrible... it was a difficult place to take a photo showing the actual hue of colour.
There were also these little reddish dots floating in the drink. Usually, I'd take such dots to mean the drink wasn't well mixed or emulsified... but in this case, they were somewhat pretty against the pink, and added to the Christmas feel of it! Like bits of red candy cane huh? Not sure if it was intentional or not. But well, it worked.
As for the taste... it was like a very creamy vanilla flavour, but not the usual vanilla. It's somewhat like those vanilla flavoured soft cream mixes that aren't quite milky in flavour... more like the KFC or Burger King soft cream flavours rather than the McDonald's one, in Singapore that is. Or, if you've had those vanilla-flavoured nutrition milk drinks, it reminds me of the Ensure Liquid vanilla flavour. But basically, it didn't taste like the normal hot cocoa at all, and it didn't have that savoury component at all, which is usually found in normal hot cocoa drinks.
I couldn't taste the cocoa, but I suppose it's supposed to be a mild flavour, and maybe there was some of it in the aftertaste, with some imagination. Or... maybe it had something to do with the interesting vanilla taste, although I could spot any cocoa-related ingredients in the Ensure Liquid ingredients list. Still, I know they didn't lie about using cocoa because I could see the fine cocoa powder deposited at the bottom of the glass... just a light 1-cm diameter patch though.
Also, it wasn't too sweet... a pleasant but rare thing with such coffee places, which tend to be sugar happy.
Overall, a very nice drink! $6.50 for the small size, which was not bad I thought, given that it's a seasonal and unique flavour. Definitely a nice warm drink to sit down and read a book or journal to.
It was a very soothing cherry pastel pink colour. Apologies that the lighting was terrible... it was a difficult place to take a photo showing the actual hue of colour.
I couldn't taste the cocoa, but I suppose it's supposed to be a mild flavour, and maybe there was some of it in the aftertaste, with some imagination. Or... maybe it had something to do with the interesting vanilla taste, although I could spot any cocoa-related ingredients in the Ensure Liquid ingredients list. Still, I know they didn't lie about using cocoa because I could see the fine cocoa powder deposited at the bottom of the glass... just a light 1-cm diameter patch though.
Also, it wasn't too sweet... a pleasant but rare thing with such coffee places, which tend to be sugar happy.
Overall, a very nice drink! $6.50 for the small size, which was not bad I thought, given that it's a seasonal and unique flavour. Definitely a nice warm drink to sit down and read a book or journal to.
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