Milk & Yogurt Drinks

🇯🇲Jamaica

Irish Moss

Sea moss boiled down with milk, condensed milk, nutmeg, vanilla and sometimes stout into a thick tonic drink.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Jurgot

Ҷурғот

Thick sour milk thinned with water and salted into a drink taken with meals in hot weather.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Kefir

Kefyras

A cultured milk drink with a clean lactic tang, lightly thick body, and refreshing acidity.

🇭🇹Haiti

Kremas

Condensed and evaporated milk, cream of coconut, lime zest, vanilla and nutmeg blended with rum into a thick sweet cream, chilled and poured in small glasses.

🇨🇴Colombia

Kumis

Antioquia's fermented cow-milk drink — tangy, lightly fizzy, sometimes spiked with aguardiente — bottled and sold chilled across Colombia. A paisa breakfast marker alongside arepa and hogao.

🇸🇴Somalia

Laas

A Somali fermented milk drink served cool with meals and breakfast.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Lassi

Mango Lassi

A thick, chilled yogurt drink, sweet or salted, sometimes flavoured with mango.

🇦🇴Angola

Leite Azedo com Pirão

Leite azedo com pirão de milho

Soured milk poured over stiff maize porridge, the everyday meal of the southern cattle-herding provinces.

🇦🇺Australia

Milo

Malted chocolate drink, Malaysian style with condensed milk, rich chocolate flavor with creamy texture and not too sweet, a Malaysian national drink

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Milo Dinosaur

Iced Milo topped with extra Milo powder, Malaysian creation, generous Milo powder topping with cold drink and not diluted, a mamak stall icon, and decadent

🇪🇨Ecuador

Morocho

Morocho is a thick Ecuadorian drink of cracked morocho corn simmered with milk, sugar, and cinnamon until creamy.

🇰🇪Kenya

Mursik

A Kalenjin sour milk curdled with wood ashes, a traditional and athletic classic

🇨🇭Switzerland

Ovaltine

Ovomaltine

A malt, milk and cocoa powder stirred into hot or cold milk, and also sprinkled dry on bread with butter.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Papaya Milk

木瓜牛奶

Ripe papaya blended with fresh milk and ice into a thick orange shake, sold at juice stands and night markets.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Peanut Punch

Peanut butter blended with milk, condensed milk, nutmeg and bitters into a thick, sweet drink.

🇵🇪Peru

Ponche de Maca

A warm Peruvian maca drink enriched with milk and spices.

🇨🇷Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Resbaladera

Barley and rice drink with milk, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla, creamy texture from Guanacaste, a traditional Costa Rican beverage.

🇷🇺Russia

Ryazhenka

Ряженка

Ryazhenka is a fermented baked milk product, thick, creamy, sweet, caramel-colored, rich caramel flavor with creamy texture and fermentation.

🇪🇬Egypt

Salep

Салеп

A warm, creamy winter drink made from the powdered tubers of wild orchids, mixed with hot milk, sugar, and topped with cinnamon. Salep has been consumed since Ottoman times and is sold by street vendors during the cold months. The same orchid root powder is a key ingredient in Turkish dondurma ice cream.

🇬🇾Guyana

Sawine

Fine vermicelli toasted and simmered in sweet spiced milk with raisins and almonds, made for Eid.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Sea Moss

Dried sea moss soaked, boiled to a gel and blended with milk, spice and sweetener into a thick drink.

🇧🇿Belize

Seaweed Shake

Dried Eucheuma seaweed soaked and boiled until it gels, then blended with condensed milk, nutmeg and cinnamon into a thick cold drink.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Shalap

Шалап

A Kazakh cold yogurt drink with water, salt, and herbs, a summer and daily classic

🇯🇴Jordan

Shaneeneh

شنينة

Goat or sheep yoghurt whisked with cold water and salt, drunk through the summer and served alongside mansaf.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Shubat

Шұбат

Fermented camel's milk, thick and white with a clean sourness and a faint natural fizz.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Fresh Milk

Fresh Milk

Fresh milk central to the cattle-herding cultures of South Sudan; the Mundari and Dinka peoples center their lives around cattle; milk drunk fresh, soured, or mixed with blood; a symbol of wealth and status; the original South Sudanese beverage.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Soured Milk

Soured Milk

Milk left to sour naturally in gourds or calabashes; tart and thick; a traditional way of preserving milk without refrigeration; drunk by cattle-herding tribes; the probiotic beverage of rural South Sudan; sometimes mixed with blood for extra nutrition.

🇪🇸Spain

Spanish Hot Chocolate

Chocolate a la taza

A thick, creamy hot chocolate made with dark chocolate or cocoa, milk, sugar, and cornstarch, traditionally served with churros for dipping.

🇦🇷Argentina

Submarino

An Argentine hot drink of a bar of chocolate submerged in a tall glass of hot milk, stirred until melted. A childhood and winter classic, served in cafés and homes.

🇮🇸Iceland

Súrmjólk

Traditional Icelandic cultured milk, thinner and tangier than skyr.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Süütei Tsai

Сүүтэй цай

Brick tea boiled with milk, water and salt, sometimes with butter or a spoonful of millet or fat stirred in.

🇦🇲Armenia

Tan

Թան

Matsun whisked with cold water and salt, sometimes with herbs, drunk cold with grilled meat and in summer heat.

🇵🇰Sindh, Pakistan

Thadal

ٺاڍل

Almond, poppy seed, fennel and melon seed ground to a paste and mixed with cold milk, sugar and rose water.

🇮🇳India

Thandai

थंडाई

A cooling milk drink with almonds, saffron, cardamom, and rose, traditionally served during Holi. It is rich and fragrant.

🇪🇸Valencia, Spain

Tiger Nut Milk

Horchata de chufa

A refreshing, creamy non-alcoholic drink from Valencia, made from soaked, ground, and sweetened tiger nuts (chufas), served ice cold with fartons.

🇧🇷Brazil

Umbuzada

A thick sertão drink of umbu fruit and milk, tangy and creamy, from Brazil's dry northeast.