The Malaysian restaurant Nyonya down in the Soho/Little Italy/Chinatown area has these coconut drinks as a dessert on their menu:
They stick a straw in the coconut, and poof! Delicious coconut juice/water (on a side note, this is one of my favorite places to eat ... and it's inexpensive!) I was hesitant to try it because I recently tried that Vita Coco coconut water and didn't like it at all. It says it's 100% coconut water, but who knows ... Nyonya's coconut water tasted good to me and theirs didn't.
After this small culinary adventure (for me anyway), Adrian got it into his head to find something comparable in the Greenpoint area and he swore he remembered seeing pre-cut/strawed coconuts in just about every bodega/veggie and fruit shop in the area. He doesn't often get food obsessions, so I went with it. We ended up finding regular old coconuts at C-town.
This How to Open a Coconut site detailed the logistics. Basically, drain the coconut water out by nailing in about 3 nails and pulling them out. We used screws and a screwdriver to make this easier:
Drain out the juice and strain it a bunch of times to get the weird little bits of stuff out. (Ithaca represent):
Then, cover the coconut with a towel on a hard surface and go to town with a hammer:
Carefully use a knife to peel away the "meat" from the shell. A veggie peeler works well for getting rid of any extra shell still hanging on for dear life.
Final tip: Put the coconut pieces in the fridge or your fruit fly roommates will destroy this delicious treat.
They stick a straw in the coconut, and poof! Delicious coconut juice/water (on a side note, this is one of my favorite places to eat ... and it's inexpensive!) I was hesitant to try it because I recently tried that Vita Coco coconut water and didn't like it at all. It says it's 100% coconut water, but who knows ... Nyonya's coconut water tasted good to me and theirs didn't.
After this small culinary adventure (for me anyway), Adrian got it into his head to find something comparable in the Greenpoint area and he swore he remembered seeing pre-cut/strawed coconuts in just about every bodega/veggie and fruit shop in the area. He doesn't often get food obsessions, so I went with it. We ended up finding regular old coconuts at C-town.
This How to Open a Coconut site detailed the logistics. Basically, drain the coconut water out by nailing in about 3 nails and pulling them out. We used screws and a screwdriver to make this easier:
Drain out the juice and strain it a bunch of times to get the weird little bits of stuff out. (Ithaca represent):
Then, cover the coconut with a towel on a hard surface and go to town with a hammer:
Carefully use a knife to peel away the "meat" from the shell. A veggie peeler works well for getting rid of any extra shell still hanging on for dear life.
Final tip: Put the coconut pieces in the fridge or your fruit fly roommates will destroy this delicious treat.
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