One of the best places to go for banana milk is your neighborhood Korean grocery, but if you're lucky, you can also get this in the international section of your go-to supermarket. Binggrae is a popular banana-milk brand in South Korea, and it's available in most stores in Manila. Fun fact: Around 800,000 bottles of the drink are reportedly sold daily in Korea, with around six billion bottles sold since its launch in 1974.
For those who are fans of Binggrae's banana-flavored milk or those who frequently watch Korean dramas, you've probably noticed that this banana-milk brand comes in a bulky hexagon-shaped plastic bottle in South Korea, a bit similar to the hangari, a type of earthenware jar traditionally used there. This jar-like packaging is not commonly imported to the Philippines. Instead, Binggrae's banana milk is sold in a small, bright-yellow box. Don't worry: Regardless of the packaging, it tastes the same, and the same thing goes for the other existing Binggrae flavored-milk drinks in the market.
Binggrae's banana milk needs no introduction. This is the first flavored milk that Binggrae produced back in 1974. The drink is sweet, milky, and tastes just like it has bananas.
Thirty-nine years after Binggrae came out with the banana milk, the brand released its second flavored milk: strawberry. For those who are fans of the strawberry-and-evaporated milk combination, you should definitely check this out.
Binggrae also has melon-flavored milk, which highlights the honeydew melon and not the common cantaloupe. This drink tastes like a melted version of the ice-cream bar Melona, which makes perfect sense because Binggrae is also the brand behind the popular frozen treat.
A Binggrae milk flavor that not a lot of people know about is the lychee and peach-flavored milk. It's a bit harder to find unlike the aforementioned variants: You can find this flavor sold in Korean groceries more than the international section of the supermarket.
Binggrae's coffee-flavored milk tastes like a latte, if not more milk than coffee. If you're a fan of extra milky coffee, this coffee-flavored milk is right up your alley. This is also pretty hard to find in Manila; in Korean convenience stores, this flavor is less common than the strawberry and melon drinks.
One of the flavors that you can't find in the Philippines but is currently available in South Korea is the lighter version of the banana-flavored milk. For those who are watching their calorie intake, this drink has fewer calories and isn't as sweet!
Are you a fan of vanilla ice cream? This variant might be to your liking. Binggrae's vanilla-flavored milk tastes just like a melted version of sweet vanilla-flavored soft serve.
The most recent flavored milk Binggrae came out with is the candy bar-flavored milk. According to Creatrip, it tastes just like a melted version of an ice cream float but without the fizz. This is not available yet in the Philippines, but we're keeping our fingers crossed!
Binggrae also launched other flavors that were only released for a limited time. In 2018, they released two flavors: The mulberry-flavored milk and the tangerine-flavored milk. In 2019, they released the classic banana-flavored milk in festive-looking packaging for the holidays.
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