Off the Beaten Plate: The Pop-Top Coconut

Drinking fresh coconut: Easy. Puncturing the shell of one with a power drill: Hard. 

Fortunately, the days of getting your coconut drilled at a roadside stand (or in Wangfujing) may now be over. Enter the pop-top coconut. It's as if a Coke can and a coconut had a baby. All you need to get deez nuts is pull the tab. When you do, you punch through a pre-drilled hole, and the remaining layer of flesh can be easily punctured with your straw. 

Granted, this isn’t the freshest of coconut milks – and its incredible sweetness has us thinking there must be sugar added. Nonetheless, it’s worth a try – especially if you're thinking of adding rum to it. Just say yezi. (That means ‘coconut.’)

RMB19.90, Ole Supermarkets