This week we said farewell to two lovely interns at work, and so the team trooped down the road to Thai @ Home in Glebe for a final farewell lunch. On a whim I ordered coconut juice and almost fell off my chair when they presented it in an actual coconut!

I have since learnt that the type of coconut presented this way is a young coconut. A young coconut (bottom left photo - sourced from youngcoconuts.com ) is green and still full of clear coconut water, or coconut juice. As the coconut ages (bottom right photo - sourced from howtoopenacoconut.com), the liquid hardens into the white fleshy stuff, which we more commonly know in its grated and strained form of coconut milk. Also rather delicious. But I  digress. 

For my surprise treat, the rough green outer edge had been cut off, and the top sliced to form a lid. The whole thing had been sitting in a fridge to chill, because it was cold, sweet, and fabulously refreshing on a sultry 40 degree celcius (around 104 farenheit for all you American kids) summer day in Sydney. Just heaven in a coconut cup!