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\nZest-o. Heh. So you can guess why I picked these up no? Also, I have no idea what a dalandan is other than some sort of fruit I expect. Probably something citrus-y judging from the looks of the sectional citrus-y looking thing on the can and the vague general citrus smell of the soda.<\/p>\n
These sodas come from the Philippines but ‘Zest-o’ was funny enough to honorary them in. Also, I might have a thing with foreign sodas now thanks to Ramune. Zest-o’s dalandan soda fizzed up nicely when I poured it into a glass and that bodes well if Ramune is the Asian norm of soda. Zest-o also packs their soda very snuggly into the can so despite my wanting to show Sean Whose Name is Nate up and do another liquid I was wise and opened the can well away from both the laptop and the camera. Consequently my couch got splurted with dalandan soda spray so maybe I wasn’t as smart as I could have been if I had thought to open things up at the kitchen sink. So beware of the soda because they don’t leave a lot of head room at all in the can.<\/p>\n
Along with the vague citrus scent, dalandan has another background scent that I couldn’t rightly place. I called in my favorite Guinea Pig to help with the review and he decided that the other scent was “Slightly fishy Mountain Dew”. I don’t know about ‘fishy’ but I can see perhaps the fragrance of vague citrus and a touch of pond. Not bad scummy pond but pond that has fish and plants and clean but natural pond stuff in it.<\/p>\n
As to taste, dalandan soda is very reminiscent of Mountain Dew crossed with tart Squirt and a titch of pond. Not as much pond as the smell might lead you to believe but there is a weird background flavor that matches the weird background smell. There is also a bit of an afterlinger taste that isn’t the Mountain Dew or Squirt flavor. Meh.<\/p>\n
Lastly, I am sad to say that dalandan soda has the same small carbonation problem that plagues Ramune. It is perhaps a touch zestier (Zest-oier?) in the bubble department but it still tastes a little flat. And of pond, which is not the carbonation’s fault but I had to mention it because the more I taste of the soda, the more I am aware of the pond water factor.<\/p>\n
I can’t say that I’m behind this soda 100%. I’m not sure I can even go 75% since I am not impressed by the itty bitty bubble carbonation. Tiny bubbles dissipate to quickly and leave the soda tasting flat which costs pea points. I’m OK with the sweet Mountain Dew-y type flavor and I kinda like the tart citrus Squirt like flavor but I could really do without the background pond water flavor. If the carbonation had been a little more robust and the pond water factor non-existent, then I could give this soda at least a 3.5 pea rating. But I am going to have to knock half a pea off for disappointing carbonation and another half pea for weird reminiscent pond water for a total disappointing<\/p>\n