Lately, there’s an awareness of the use of plastic straw that could harm our environment. Cities and restaurant franchises around the world have started to ban it. Since then, many alternatives for plastic straw have come out. Some are made of organic materials, making these straw edibles. So do you ever wonder, what happens when you cook these edible straws?

Say no more fam.

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A food blogger from Hong Kong has taken this curiosity into reality. She said, someone brought back home a pack of edible straw and nobody from her family has used it. At that moment, she decided to cook the edible straw just for experimenting. The result, a bowl of noodles that’s thick and white, has a slippery texture and she said, the taste is quite bland. To take things further, she then added dumplings and fishballs into the cooked straw and it does indeed look like your typical noodle meal.

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After the experiment, she posted it on Facebook and it got viral with 3.7k likes. There are lots of funny and supporting comments. One comment was saying that’s a very expensive bowl of noodles, with a packet of edible straw cost HKD180.00 (RM333.11) each. Some comments suggesting that the noodles would taste nicer if it was cooked with soup.

The edible straws, one of the selling items from Keenly Green, an online shop based in Hong Kong that specialized in eco-friendly products. The company claimed its products are edible and are a good substitute for single-use plastic products.

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We all have our shares on non-plastic straws. But when the next time you come across an edible straw, would you too experiment by cooking it or came out with other creative methods? Human curiosity can sometimes be a playful thing.