[discobay]

Originally Posted by mercury_element

I have never tried it, but a friend of mine told me that "Masters" tastes good. You can buy it from Wellcome.

I find that Masters is as close in taste to the fresh milk I used to drink in the UK as I can remember and I can remember a lot of really useless crap.

[goodkarma]

Originally Posted by Lammarite

You haven't met PDLM have you? He stalks everyone's posts.

And has been for many years as far as I know.

People like that cannot be banned because they just re register.

Going back to to the milk issue - I just made my own hot chocolate by using real dark chocolate powder and adding my own sugar to milk. It is so much better than the powdered mixes I have used.

[lowlight]

When you buy Dairy Farm brand milk, be sure to read the ingredients. They have a milk powder type, and a regular homogenized type, and the labels look almost EXACTLY the same. The prices are almost identical too!

So make sure to get the fresh milk and it tastes just like any other milk of the same type.

[shwetapershad]

Pura is the best tasting milk I can find in HK (on Wellcome's website it is sold under the name 'Masters').

[shilo507]

I used to consume about a pint of milk a day in the UK (semi-skimmed) but found the stuff here so bad I just stopped drinking it. Then I went one step further and cut out most dairy products (yoghurt, cheese, butter/spreads) as I just cannot stomach them now.

I can see that the Western diet is too heavy in dairy products and thus fat intake but the Asian diet lacks calcium hence the reason for added calcium in fruit juices here (yuk!) and the number of older Chinese women with osteoporosis.

Still, I have lost around 8 Kg in weight here in the last 7 months despite drinking more Tsingtao beer than I should and eating heartily and I can only assume it is down to eschewing all dairy products.

If I try to drink milk either here or in Europe it now tastes foul. Occasionally I'll eat breakfast cereal but dry without milk.

[HK_Newbie100]

Osteoporosis is not a disease of insufficient calcium intake, it is a disease of excess calcium losses caused in fact by consuming too much animal and dairy protein. Animal protein, in the process of digestion, creates a number of acidic byproducts which circulate in the bloodstream. Since the body must at every moment preserve the alkalinity of the bloodstream, it pulls calcium out of the bones to neutralize the acidity. It?s why those countries with the highest intake of dairy products (the West) suffer the most from osteoporosis and similar diseases and those with the lowest dairy intake suffer the least. In certain countries that have low protein diets, osteoporosis is virtually unknown.

The whole protein and milk is good for you campaign is a giant myth perpetuated by the meat and dairy industry that since it?s been repeated so often is now taken as fact. It?s weird what they can get you to believe.

Take a read of this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...104740,00.html
Or Google something like milk is bad and make up your own mind.

[lowlight]

Originally Posted by HK_Newbie100

Osteoporosis is not a disease of insufficient calcium intake, it is a disease of excess calcium losses caused in fact by consuming too much animal and dairy protein. Animal protein, in the process of digestion, creates a number of acidic byproducts which circulate in the bloodstream. Since the body must at every moment preserve the alkalinity of the bloodstream, it pulls calcium out of the bones to neutralize the acidity. It?s why those countries with the highest intake of dairy products (the West) suffer the most from osteoporosis and similar diseases and those with the lowest dairy intake suffer the least. In certain countries that have low protein diets, osteoporosis is virtually unknown.

The whole protein and milk is good for you campaign is a giant myth perpetuated by the meat and dairy industry that since it?s been repeated so often is now taken as fact. It?s weird what they can get you to believe.

Take a read of this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...104740,00.html
Or Google something like milk is bad and make up your own mind.

No.

If you think you will learn ANYTHING of use by GOOGLING "milk is bad" you are... well... misguided...

[jenifa]

I just have the Kowloon Dairy "Fresh Milk" - tastes fine to me. I must confess to buying imported eggs though, as I've not seen any local free range eggs, *and* they all have use-by dates MONTHS ahead of time - lord knows what chemicals they're pumped with to keep them ok for that long...

[Monde]

I buy the Red box milk.

[devnagiri]

Monde, Where do you get the Red Box Milk?