Woman Uses Pei Pa Koa as ‘Jam’ to Spread on Her Toast Before Eating it

Some people have arguably weird tastes sometimes.

From pizza with bubble tea pearls to salted egg yolk and mala everything, there’s a plethora of odd food combinations everywhere you go.

But using medicine as an ingredient? That’s a whole new low.

And this news is made 10 times worse when you realise it’s Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa.

Lady Uses Chinese Herbal Medicine As Jam

Obviously having sunk to a terrible mental state because of the pandemic, one woman on Facebook asked if anyone had tried spreading Pei Pa Koa on bread.

“I swear it’s really good—slightly sweet and comfortable over the throat,” she wrote.

Poor lady, she’s too far gone.

In her Facebook post, she had uploaded a screenshot of one of her followers reacting to her Instagram story of her breakfast item of choice.

“Whaaaaaaaaat,” they said.

Same.

Again, she swore that “it’s real good ok”.

Looking at the picture of the bread and spread, it really looks like the Pei Pa Koa could be the Asian cousin to its other equally disgusting spreads—Marmite and Vegemite.

The user also urged her to post her unique breakfast to Subtle Asian Traits, a Facebook community of Asians that celebrates all kinds of Asian culture. Very fitting.

It seems that her post had been a hit with the community, garnering nearly 4,000 likes and thousands of comments that either shared her taste or were very disturbed by it.

Some users apparently liked the taste of Pei Pa Koa, saying that the medicine “tastes so good” or that it was “the one medicine [they] always looked forward to eating”. Someone even called it a “snack” if it wasn’t herbal cough syrup.

However, others had the exact opposite reaction and you could absolutely hear their agony in the comments. One user even called it “dangerously lethal”, feeling sick from looking at the post.

Oh, the irony.

Pei Pa Koa Bubble Tea

As if cough syrup jam couldn’t get any worse, there is cough syrup bubble tea in Singapore.

Bubble tea shop Woobbee has the HerbalMint Milk Tea for S$4.10, with black pearls, grass jelly, pudding, or nata de coco as the topping.

You can find them at their physical outlets located at Chinatown Point, Tanjong Pagar Plaza, Fusionopolis, Tampines and Singapore Expo, or order through a delivery app or their website.

So if you’re curious about what pi pa gao bubble tea tastes like, well, just make your way to one of the shops and check them out!

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