OREO Twists Lab popup/pop up

Oreos were doing a pop up at Old Compton Road featuring their new Oreo twists at the Oreo Twists Lab so I went along to try their new oreos.
As well as free Oreos up for grabs they had customization booths to get your personalized merch like Tshirts, water bottles etc.

After trying the vanilla caramel and vanilla raspberry, I felt that the vanilla caramel tasted much better while the vanilla raspberry was a little sweet for my liking.

The original oreo is basically like a rich cocoa biscuit or bourbon with vanilla cream in the middle.

Old Compton Street

Fresh Yellow Barhi Dates

Not often you see fresh yellow dates so a really good reason to try them.

Just like the dried version they are physically hard.

The fresh ones taste much better because they are not syrupy like the dried ones.

They were crisp and sweet but don't the skin is super astringent.

Ambrosia Light rice pudding

As I am too lazy to cook rice pudding, I resorted to buying some ready to eat ones.

I was actually looking for some sugar free ones which led me to this because I wanted to add some other stuff to it like chocolate or pandan.

The Ambrosia light version comes in the pots and tins so I got the pot as the tinned version might have a weird tin taste to it.

The light version does not contain as much sugar but it still sweet so it was dreamy and it is not as heavy as the regular version so you can appreciate the taste of the rice as well.

Batchelors Cup a soup - New Thai chicken & lemongrass

I didn't expect myself to like this but it wasn't bad and the lemongrass wasn't too over powering.

The chicken taste in the soup was quite comforting.

Hausa Koko millet porridge by Delight Foods

Spotted this at my local so had to give it a try as it was millet porridge which is quite different to your usual oats and rice.

I loved the fermented sourness just like injera but it was too spicy as there was chilli, cloves, ginger and all that.

spiny gourd / spine gourd vegetable

Picked this up at some Indian grocery shop and found out that it was another variant of bittermelon so I had to try it.

The appearance looked more like a berry or conker so who would have guessed it was a vegetable and its relation to a bittermelon.

These are good stir fried with onions and tomato with some spices just like bittermelon or okra and the seeds inside are crunchy and can be eaten.

7up cherry drink

I love cherry so had to try out this 7up cherry drink.
To my surprise, it is colourless and there was a lovely cherry taste.

As well as cherry, there is 7up but was in harmony with the cherry which was good.

Overall quite a nice drink as the 7up flavours do not grab you more than the cherry.