Highly Recommend: Pressed coconut juice to satisfy one editor's cravings.
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For the three most simultaneously interesting and relaxing years of my life, I lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand. A lot of things were great about it, but my favorite thing was the coconuts. Real coconuts, lots of them, everywhere you turned—on the trees and in the markets, and not just the big, green, not-quite-ripe boys but the sweet tiny ones with brown crackable shells, too. Inside is the most delicious-tasting substance natural to this earth, full stop.
Now that I live back in the tropical-fruit-forsaken United States, I miss coconuts more fiercely than I miss. And I tried, for years, to find a replacement. But while pre-packaged coconut waters are trendy and plentiful, none could compare. They were too sour, or too bland, or too saccharine with added sugar, or tasted too much like the vessel they came in , or mixed with some bullshit ingredient like pineapple juice.
My hand shot out before my brain even registered what I was doing and grabbed it. I paid the requisite $2.99, brought it home, poured it in a glass, and lo! It wasn’t clear or slightly yellow as those lesser coconut waters are. It was a beautiful milky white, with tiny particles of coconut flesh evenly distributed throughout so that they melt on your tongue with each sip. The flavor was creamy, subtle, umami-like, as it should be. It was the closest I’d ever come to an actual Thai coconut.
Today, I am a Pressed fiend. I’ll hit up multiple bodegas—my record is five—in search of Pressed. People will say, “The coconut water’s right here!” and I will curse them internally. “No,” I’ll mutter, closing the glass door with a thwack. And I’ll head on down the road, to the next shop, or the next, no matter how hot or cold or late I am. Why? Because the minute I unscrew that white plastic cap, I know I’ll be transported right on back to Thailand. Only Pressed can do that.
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