I was wandering around Central Market in Mill Creek this evening to grab a few things and try to cook something new tonight (miso chicken) and I saw this on the shelf.
The reasion it stands out is that I first saw Pocari Sweat (yes that’s the spelling) in a vending machine on Japan last month. Drink vending machines are a big deal in Japan and are found everywhere, even standing alone on the side of the road with nothing else around.
This is a picture I took in Japan at Nagoya Station, Pocari Sweat is there in the middle of the top row. Interestingly the machines give out both hot and cold drinks. The ones with a red label under them come out of the machine hot, the one in blue cold.
None of us tired it when we were in Japan, we assume it’s sports type drink, but there is no clue on the package in Central Market either and once again I left it on the shelf today. However, I did get something of a taste for the hot lemon drink that the machines sell.
And the miso chicken and spicy green beans was rather good this evening.