Gingen
Recent Tasting Notes
We bought a warehouse pack of this in Thailand right before a boating expedition. I’m only sorry that I didn’t pack my suitcase full on the way back! It’s pure ginger, aromatic, easy to use and great for cooking or drinking. I’m so sad it’s so horribly expensive here in the USA. It gets top review, sorry I couldn’t continue the additional rating system below as this site is not suited to mobile use.
This is one of those messed up (yet always wonderful) purchases that I made in a Brussels-based Asian grocery store called Tinie’s (tiny’s). I wanted an instant ginger tea/drink but without all the extra crud, and found this. Only ingredient? Ginger. Yes! Tricky to discover though, I had to really scour the packaging (it’s all in Thai) and then the ONLY native part of the packaging in English, other htan “Ginger Extract 100%” and a blurb I’ll share on the tea page, was the URL gingen.com. Excellent!
Anyway, to the tea/drink. It’s spicy, it comes in those cute little individual packages, it’s solid, it’s dependable. Is it amazing? No… but it’s instant ginger granules, and I always want some of those on hand in cold weather.
Flavors: Ginger, Spicy
Preparation
I have a sweet ginger granule from my local Asian place – makes a wicked good hot drink for colds, especially with lemon juice.