Battle of the banana milk

Taiwan Banana Milk, RM2.65

Packaging: The attractive 340ml pale yellow can has a half-peeled banana with brown patches on it.
Scent: This Taiwan represent has a faint aura of teh bandung.
Taste: This milky drink had a strange honeydew-like aftertaste. Plus, it’s more diluted than the others.
Banana factor: The consensus: It tasted more like honeydew than bananas.
Verdict: Buy it for the can.



Sahmyook Banana Soy Drink, RM3.15

Packaging: This tiny 140ml tetrapak of banana soy drink is perfect for photogenic kid-sized bento boxes.
Scent: There’s a very, very strong scent of banana in this Horlicks-tinted drink.
Taste: This soy drink veered towards the sweet side, but there was a fine balance of soy milk and punchy banana flavours.
Banana factor: Tasters unanimously voted for Sahmyook’s strong banana taste.
Verdict: Sahmyook may be tiny, but that size is just right for a shot of stronger banana taste.



Binggrae, RM3.48

Packaging: Launched over 40 years ago, this is practically Korea’s national drink. Binggrae’s 200ml pack has an image of its original round plastic Korean pot design.
Scent: We could only get a whiff of milk with the merest suggestion of banana.
Taste: Binggrae is an exceedingly milky beverage that seemed to have a disproportionately more milky taste than banana.
Banana factor: The banana factor seemed mildly artificial to us.
Verdict: If you’re in the camp of more milk, less fruit, Binggrae is for you. We prefer more fruit though.

And the winner is... Sahmyook! Banana wins. Always.