Strongish malt flavor and more noticeable sweetness and salt than the other Ovaltine versions. I was expecting this to taste identical to the Cocoa (labeled) version, but it had a bit more punch to it.
Ovaltine Malt Milk (China)
Watery, wheaty (much more so than malty), and vitamin-y tasting— all three of which are not positive characteristics.
Fine Life Chocolate Flavored Milk
Has a sourish cocoa taste (similar to Mullermilch, perhaps) and it's hard to find something to like aside from the smoothness. Despite the smoothness, however, it dries the mouth out a little post-swallow. No salt or cream to be found, this is an unfortunate combination of ingredients.
Plum Park Chocolate Milk Drink
Tastes like weak watered-down coffee mixed with mild children’s cough medicine. Unpleasant regardless of anyone’s taste preferences. Its only strength is that it’s very low-calorie; no wonder chocolate milk is not popular in China— if this is what they think it is.
Taiwan Nature Chocolate Milk (Kunming)
Thin, smooth, opaque brown, mildly sketchy taste— you’d almost think it was water out of the Tamsui River if it weren’t labelled otherwise. Has more of a banana flavor than chocolate.
Mengniu Chocolate Milk
Viscosity and texture are its best attributes— the flavor categories are remarkably unfulfilled. I will concede that the 5th sip tastes better than the first few, though I doubt most people would desire to go that far.
Incolac Chocolate Drink
While it's not difficult to stand out among the extremely bland Chinese chocolate milk field thus far, this stuff is quite flavorful. There are grainy particulates to be found, but don’t let this deter you from downing all 500mL.
New Hope Chocolate Milk
Exceedingly bland, though has a little bit of creamy taste that manages to poke through. Neither offensive, nor recommended.
Yili Chocolate Milk
Flat chocolate taste with an aftertaste that borders on metallic. No hint of salt whatsoever, ultimately a very bland experience and blah texture.
Foremost Omega Gold Chocolate
There's a washed-out feel to the taste that leaves you wanting a bit more of a bite. It’s not offensive, but relatively uninteresting.
Enfagrow A-Plus 4 Chocolate Flavored
Salt and cream are very strong and overpower the sweetness and whatever cocoa flavor there is. Call me crazy, but it stands out from the over-sweetened and under-salted field of chocolate milk, and doesn’t have the dreaded ‘fortified’ mineral-y taste that you might expect.
NP Fresh Tofu Milk
Big chunks of gelatinous material suspended throughout this drink, which I think is milk-based (will have to wait for the translation). The chocolate flavor is there, and it’s plenty sweet, but it’s just weird having jelly-like chunks throughout.
Chabakao
As it turns out, it’s soy milk, but pretty flavorful. Nice deep chocolate flavor, lots of graininess to achieve it, but a nicely strong and sweet chocolate soy milk.
Meiji Choco Malt
Sweetness dominates the experience, and the malt flavor certainly stands out above the chocolate. Nicely thin and very smooth, it was enjoyable but far from transcendent.
Foremost Chocolate Omega
The nasty gray color is reminiscent of a highly polluted river, and the taste might be worse. I would describe it as sweet and ferrous. Please avoid.
Dmalt Low Sugar Chocolate Malt Flavoured Milk
Definitely less sweet than the regular version, but the same taste is prevalent. Watery texture doesn’t add to the experience, it only further highlights the lack of flavor.
Chokchai Farm Choc Malt
Stronger supporting cast than its UHT counterpart, the added creaminess delivers the malt taste more effectively.
Dairy Home Organic Chocolate Flavoured Milk
Coolest packaging I’ve yet to see— a thick plastic antifreeze-like container with a lot of heft. The taste was more toward the malty/rum-like end of the spectrum, but the great creamy quotient (without added thickness) made up for the lack of chocolate.
Chokchai Farm Choc Malt (UHT)
A tad much on the watery side for the malt flavor to seem realistic. It comes on a bit too strong and doesn’t have enough cream or saltiness to carry it through.
Nongpho Hi-Kids Chocolate Flavoured Milk
Nice creamy flavor in a thin and smooth texture. It slightly coats the back of your throat and you will wish that it hung on for longer.