The current Mrs Keelbolt (who is also English) and I were lunching in a lovely restaurant near our flat, and the waiter offered us a wonderful, cool, blackcurrent type drink. It wasn't quite blackcurrent - it had something bitter in the background and lacked that cloying sweetness that blackcurrent often has. When I asked him what it was, he repeated several times, slowly and carefully so I could get the tones I guess, G'tiap (or, how I remember it, G'tea app).

Can anyone please (a) enlighten me on what this drink actually contains, and ( the thai spelling? Thanks very much in advance.

KB

It's กระเจี๊ยบ or roselle in English. My wife makes some juice from the fruits we have in the garden, it's delicious.

Thank you. Thats brilliant. Now I know not only what it is, but how to spell it and therefore how to say it properly. Brilliant!

If you paste กระเจี๊ยบ into the dictionary at thai-language.com, you'll be able to hear how it's pronounced. Failing that, ask for gra-jiep