Beer is sometimes a good choice to drink with food but hard liquor like baijiu usually deadens your taste buds to all other flavours and is generally best to drink with a bad meal, Andrew Sun says. Photo: AFP Beer is sometimes a good choice to drink with food but hard liquor like baijiu usually deadens your taste buds to all other flavours and is generally best to drink with a bad meal, Andrew Sun says. Photo: AFP
Beer is sometimes a good choice to drink with food but hard liquor like baijiu usually deadens your taste buds to all other flavours and is generally best to drink with a bad meal, Andrew Sun says. Photo: AFP
Andrew Sun
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Mouthing Off by Andrew Sun

What to drink with a meal? Wine, beer, soft drinks, juice, milk tea, nut milk – why I can never decide, unless there’s kombucha on the menu

  • Wine makes Andrew Sun flush, beer makes him bloat, soft drinks and fruit juices are too sugary, bubble tea’s a choking hazard, water looks cheap…
  • Lately he’s been ordering kombucha when it’s on a drinks menu – it’s supposedly good for his gut and light on calories

Andrew Sun
Andrew Sun

Updated: 6:52pm, 12 Dec, 2019

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Beer is sometimes a good choice to drink with food but hard liquor like baijiu usually deadens your taste buds to all other flavours and is generally best to drink with a bad meal, Andrew Sun says. Photo: AFP Beer is sometimes a good choice to drink with food but hard liquor like baijiu usually deadens your taste buds to all other flavours and is generally best to drink with a bad meal, Andrew Sun says. Photo: AFP
Beer is sometimes a good choice to drink with food but hard liquor like baijiu usually deadens your taste buds to all other flavours and is generally best to drink with a bad meal, Andrew Sun says. Photo: AFP
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Andrew Sun

Andrew Sun

Andrew Sun has dabbled in many shades of the media spectrum for 25 years, from college radio, TV, print and online columnist to starting film festivals, managing music labels and authoring food books. Someday he will figure what he wants to be when he grows up.