Nata de coco
October 31st, 2005 by ktula
I have been eating this stuff for the last few years whenever i get myself a bubble tea. Because i am not really a big fan of the tapioca pearls in the tea, i usually substitute that with nata de coco. I didn’t have any clue about what nata de coco is until now. Gaurang and Meng-Hua got me a jar of nata de coco when they found out that i was trying to make it. I bought a pack of agar agar hoping that i could make that at home. Even though i reduced the amount of water needed by half, the texture of the final product was nowhere near the real thing.
I did a wikipedia search on nata de coco and found that it is actually a by product of coconut. It is made by the bacterial fermentation of coconut water and the process appears to be pretty tedious. It only costs me about a buck for a jar of nata de coco - i ain’t making it at home, that’s for sure.
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