ASIA must be the best place for non-drinkers to holiday.
Sure, there are lots of intoxicating options when it comes to quenching one's thirst, but the alternatives are endless and delicious when it comes to ordering a drink without an alcoholic kick.
The fruit is magnificent in this part of the world – the pineapple is unbelievably sweet, every piece of watermelon explodes with abundant pink flavour, and the mango tastes exactly like its colour suggests – which means the fruit juice is just divine.
I order a watermelon juice with every meal with a splash of "syrup" just adding to the sweetness, and a tall glass of mango juice tastes more like a dessert than a beverage.
I've also come across some other delicious drinks including a combination of pineapple and ginger that was served before lunch yesterday and a sweet lemongrass beverage that I savoured before my cooking class with Tam earlier in the week.
We had lunch yesterday at a trendy new hotel in Hua Hin called Let's Sea – an unfortunate name for a sophisticated property that has villas built around a pool designed to look like a Thai canal – and dessert featured the most delectable scoop of sorbet I've ever sampled.
It was young coconut sorbet and was just yum.
Fortunately one member of my group doesn't eat sweets, so I took one for the team and ate her scoop as well, only because we didn't want to seem ungrateful to our hosts.
Let's Sea, Hua Hin