Sugar cane drink

Gardener972

Is lime added with every drink? Do you add black salt or any other spices to your drink?

Sadanand Kamath

Lime and ginger are added at the time of crushing sugar cane for making juice.

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Gardener972

Ooooohhh!!! Ginger! Sounds yummy. Around here, I've only seen lime added. I'll ask them next time to add ginger. How much?

Sadanand Kamath

Ginger of about one inch size for a glass of sugar cane juice.

Sadanand

Nick-H

Mmmmmm....

Have to confess that the flies always put me off buying it in the street, but I haven't noticed any lime and ginger being added here. If I did I might get over the flies: it sounds delicious!

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capt_mahajan

It is delicious. Really.

Must be all the dead flies.

Sadanand Kamath

Sugar cane juice mixed with lime juice and ginger is a home remedy for jaundice.

Sadanand

CliveG

Really delicious -had many at a festival this year. While drinking it the local boys steamed through and grabbed sugar canes and disappeared over the horizon - boys having fun!!!!

wonderwomanusa

One place at the New Market in Old Calcutta used to give me "nimbu pani" with sugarcane juice instead of sugar; it was wonderful!

New-South-Welshman

Is it me or are the middle class Indians more scared of trying street food and drinks than tourists?

I tried sugar cane juice, or, rhuse, in a rural village in Uttar Pradesh. It was just the plain sugar cane juice with nothing added. Loved it at the time but may be too sweet for me now.

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machadinha

I suppose you've heard of ginger beer (not beer at all, but yummy and refreshing)?

Getting your personal recipe right is just a matter of trial and error and lots of fun.

I was looking for some recipes but only come across ginger ale/beer, which isn't exactly the same, although I suppose their origins are related. It's a Surinamese drink, see what you can find. (Look for "gemberbier.")

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capt_mahajan

You may be right.

My last trip to Uttaranchal, I ran into an Italian backpacker who needed some help, so we spent two hours together. He ate a few platefuls of samosas and pakoras off a dirty cart near the railway station on the main road with traffic pollution and dust flying around. With relish, I might add.

I did not.

However, I lived on sugarcane juice as a college student in Mumbai. 60 paisa a BIG glass. If that was too expensive, nimbu pani was 25 paisa! Much smaller glass, though.

(for some: 100 paisa make 1 rupee. Present rates about 4100 paisa to a US dollar, but those days it was about 780)

munda_kamaal

I come from chandigarh.. as far as I rememebr they only add black salt there no lime ..

jyotirmoy

It depends on the place. In Delhi it is quite common to add ginger & lime. We have these neighbourhood vendors who visit homes with his crushing gadget on wheels. You give them some water to wash & clean the canes and then they crush the canes & fill your jug. Very refreshing indeed.

Prashant.M

It's not only the lack of hygiene but usually it's not good too. Not good as in not tasty and low quality ingredients. I would say that locals will know where to get the good stuff and simply go there.

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