I finally finished drinking a whole box of Hoogu rice noodles today, and decided to make a brief summary of the various combinations I have tried. Because Hougu rice was bought earlier, there is no way to add tag. If you are interested in trying it, you may search for it yourself.

1. Drink directly

There will be a very light fragrance, and it may be difficult for those who eat more heavily to taste it, like I am used to eating the original flavor of various ingredients (because people are lazy and don't Don't dry all kinds of grains and vegetables, throw them into the pot and steam them and eat them directly), the original flavor of Hougu rice water is not bad for me.

2. Add sugar or various sweeteners

Sugar and several natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners have been tried. Although I like sweetness, I would recommend sugar and sweeteners with low sweetness. The taste of Hougu rice water itself is too light, and the addition of sweeteners with high sweetness will be a bit too much, which simply does not match.

Here is an explanation of the sweetener issue. First of all, sweetness. Generally speaking, sweeteners will be dozens or even hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. For example, Luo Han Guo sweet is the sweetness of sucrose.300 times. In addition to the sweetness, the taste of different sweeteners is also different. Some may be more harmonious with black tea, and some are more suitable with coffee. In addition to the fact that the body does have a problem with the metabolism of a certain sweetener, most people can choose sugar or a certain sweetener according to their personal preferences. Girls who lose weight can consider adding sweeteners instead of sugar.

3. Pair with sweeter, thinner brewed beverages

The old ginger tea in the picture below is an example. Drinking it alone is a slightly ginger-flavored sugar water. When paired with Monkey King Rice, the taste and texture are complete. This type of drink can also be paired with unsweetened black sesame paste, coix seed powder and the like. Before Yamibuy's discount, I stocked up a lot of various cereal powders, and I tried various mixed brewing solutions.

4. Matcha powder

Matcha powder is actually not very soluble, and there will be slag when directly brewing milk. However, the rice water can make the matcha powder more evenly dispersed in it, and there will be no residue left in the bowl after drinking. Whether to add sugar or not depends on personal preference, and I personally feel that each has its own characteristics.

5. Creamer 

I don't have condensed milk at home, I just sawcreamer and tried it, the sweetness Not enough, but you can add a bit of milk to the rice thin, and the overall effect is not bad. Personally, I think Meichao's various creamerincluding coconut milk and almond milk versions can be used with rice water to try.

6. Chia seeds

This picture is not to increase the taste, after all, the chia seeds themselves have no taste. The taste will be better, if you like to drink it and you can chew a little something. The picture below is a package of rice mixed with 3kerchia seeds and about250ml of water.

7. A rant about various salty attempts

①Scallion version

No matter how much I like scallion pancakes, scallion biscuits and other foods, I really don't like the scallion version of Hougu rice water. Probably because I am a northerner who grew up drinking sweet porridge, except for preserved egg and lean meat porridge, salty porridge is usually not on my menu.

②Black pepper+salt

This is my favorite combination for fried chicken batter, but it's kind of weird with rice noodles. It is said that there is also a combination of adding pepper, I thought about it and decided not to torture myself.

③Chicken Essence

I don’t know why I added two tablespoons of chicken essence to the rice on a whim (Totole’s, Yami sells it), but the taste = sticky+Greasy, inexplicably thinking of the unsalted old hen soup I was forced to drink when I was a child.

Write at the end:

Sometimes I just want to add some cold water after brewing, but I also pour a little bit of barley tea, rice cracker, etc. in the cup, but I can't taste it. If you are curious about this, you might as well add a tea bag to it when you boil the water, and try brewing a bag directly with tea.

In fact, there are still many ideas that I haven't tried, such as adding mustard (I ate the mustard dumplings that my classmates spoofed when I was studying, but I actually like it hahahaha), soaked ham or sausage (not Cantonese-style sweet, the sausages that the family fills every year are pure salty, and the millet porridge is especially fragrant).

I hope that this year’s Double Eleven will have Hougu Mixi events, let me grab another box to mess around with😘