Sam Bat Mai Kudzu

I can’t remember when was this store started at this location. Seems like they were there since I have memories. 三不賣野葛菜水, the only thing they are selling. A taste you will never forget, a little sweet,甘甘甜甜 and add a little salt with it. I used to have a bowl everyday after school in my childhood. Really good, healthy drink to have in such a hot weather in Hong Kong. A place that I must go every time when I am back to Hong Kong. I always buy a bowl to enjoy it there, then, a bottle to bring back to the hotel.

I remember drinking 三不賣野葛菜水 since I was a kid.
My parents someday just get jars of takeout for us to drink when they were too busy to make us homemade soup or they thought we needed some herbal remedies.
As a child, I hated the taste because my mother never let me put in any salt as seasoning. But last time when I was back in town, I could not resist getting a bowl for myself just for childhood memories!
I guess 野葛菜水 must be good stuff since I grow up to be healthy and fully of Unilocalpy energy!

People who knows me will know that I am totally a soup junky; better put, I will gladly consume anything that is drinkable. I am more than happy to visit this hop every now and them for it serves some of the best herbal tea you can find around.
Rather than tea, I would say it is more like a soup brewed with several hebal ingredients. It is said that this drink will cool you down and reduce the heat within you; it suits the people who often stay up late (i.e. me) and is suffering from cold sores and pimples (i.e. also me). Now you know why i like this joint so much. To make it more effective a cure, salt is added into the drink, so to me it is very much like a taste bowl soup; it is so good that I can have two bowls in one go!
This store has been serving the life enhancing elixirs since the 70’s; not only that, this shop serves one thing and one thing only. A lot of attitude and style I have to say, but actually, why would they have to sell other things, they specialize in one thing, perfecting it, people love it, and have been supporting them for over 40 years; the perfect example of less is more.
Life enhancing, health benefiting bowl of drink which tastes wonderful as well; what in life could be as perfect as this?