Drinks vendor

When I bought this "Chinese herbal" beverage (20 baht), as the stall-owner described it, I expected that after-hours web research would pin down the main ingredient. I'll bet that's it, to the left of the only label, but I don't have a substantially clearer photo, and as of this writing the only English-language web mentions of "jub-lieng" are my own. Do any Eating In Translation readers have a clue?

Drinks vendor
Aw Taw Gaw market, stall 12/1, Bangkok

Comments

[nodeli.com]

I don't know... That shape doesn't bode well for 'juice' in my Occidental mind.

That said - and to muddy the waters somewhat - I found this probably misleading text:

...เพราะฝรั่งนี่ขาควบกล้ำเลยอย่างคำว่า JUBLIANG ฝรั่งจะออกเสียงเป็น จับ-เบลียง (หรือ จุ-เบลียง) ถ้าไม่ขีดขั้นแบบนี้ JUB-LIANG ให้เขารู้ว่าต้องอ่านแยกกันมีหวังคนฟัง งง (เคยเจอกะตัวมาแล้ว)...

[Dave Cook]

Thanks, any little hint can help. In various pharmaceutical studies published online, "jub-liang" (spelled with an "a," not an "e" as on my label) refers to a blend of 10-12 ingredients, though none of the studies I examined identifies them by name.

Neither does my copy of Thai Hawker Food (Lee and Gordon, 1993; out of print), but it does elaborate that "jub liang" may be literally translated from Chinese as "ten coolness."

[nodeli.com]

I've got this weird suspicion that, in practice, the number of ingredients may be more important than the nature of them.

[tanitra]

Jubliang (a mixture of eight herbs namely,
Bombax ceiba L., Chrysanthemum morifolium, Imperata
cylindrical (L.) P. Beauv., Lophatherum gracile Brogn.,
Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn, Oroxylum indicum L., Pragmites
communis Trin and Prunella vulgaris)

http://www.pharm.chula.ac.th/tjps/ContentVol30No1_2/4V30_12P28_35.pdf

[nodeli.com]

^That's an amazing find.

[Dave Cook]

Thanks for digging up the details, Tanitra!

[peter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Lo_Kat