Gajah Makan: Green Tea McFlurry @ McDonalds...

As the new movie by Dreamworks premieres, Kung Fu Panda, McDonalds have came up with some special items for the menu. One of those specials happens to be the Green Tea McFlurry. Now, as a green tea lover, I just had to try this special ice-cream. However, it being slapped with a $2.50 price tag, it was kind of a turn off for me at first. Yet, my curiousity still led me to my first ever taste of this new concoction. Having tried the Milo McFlurry, I wasn't really expecting much and once again I was right. I mean, for those who have tried drinking green tea would have know that green tea have a distinct aftertaste and for some it is an added bonus because that aftertaste actually get rid of worse aftertaste. However, in the case of this McFlurry, that aftertaste, to me, is quite bitter. Its not that the green tea powder they use is lousy (or maybe it is) but its because the McFlurry was not stirred properly and I end up eating chunks of the green tea powder. As for the Milo McFlurry, eating the milo powder was like drinking a Milo Dinosaur that is now commonly found at almost any coffeeshop, but to eat the green tea powder. Wow, horri-gible!!

Look at the powder at sides of the cup...

Anyway, I still to carry on eating in some bleak hope that it gets better and it actually did. After I kept stirring and stirring and stirring. I kept stirring til the McFlurry don't look like a McFlurry anymore, it look like a green paste, but it tasted good. Well, there was still the bitter aftertaste but it was not as profound as in the begining. So, I finally realise, that McDonalds should have just made a Green Tea Milkshake rather than a McFlurry. It would taste better as the powder would have been properly mixed and I think it should be worth the price tag.

Milkshake in the making...