'My parents smuggled Milo all the way from Malaysia so we could drink it every morning.'
I grew up drinking an unlikely beverage called Milo for breakfast. I say unlikely because my childhood was spent mostly in suburban Arizona and Southern California, and Milo is an Australian chocolate-and-malt powder made by the Swiss brand Nestle. Milo is bizarrely ubiquitous in Malaysia, where I was born and lived until I was two, and where my parents were raised.
Milo came in a ridged sporty green canister with the image of a young boy in high white kneesocks dramatically kicking a soccer ball . The can had a lid like a paint can’s, which my dad would open with a spoon handle. He would then use the spoon to convey Milo powder into our mugs and add hot water, followed by the smallest splash of milk.
As a kid, I resigned myself to the fact that the Milo at home would always be just okay. Milo tasted best ordered from a Malaysian, or coffee shop, where it would be luxuriously mixed with condensed milk and where you could order it myriad ways: iced, in a bag with a straw to go; hot and frothy;a cup of iced milo with some of the powder sprinkled festively over the top.My parents pronounced Milo “Mee-lo,” making it sound sort of Chinese, even though it’s anything but.
I wonder now if—subconsciously at least—Milo was a way for our parents to keep one foot in the past. Over the years, as my parents got better jobs, our family moved closer and closer to Los Angeles, where ethnic grocery stores actually stocked Milo. But my parents refused to buy it in those American stores—They’d wait years for their next trip to Malaysia to buy Milo. Then they’d pack the cans into our luggage to be transported lovingly home.
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