weird drink: mangosteen juice

i'm a sucker for, among other things, exotic juice drinks. today's impulse purchase, at the lao market, was a can of "ice cool" brand mangosteen beverage. for those of you not immediately familiar with the mangosteen, they are one of any number of southeast asian fruits currently illegal for import into the US - worries about various insect pests, apparently. i wasn't expecting much out of this can, to tell the truth - my thai cookbook guy finds mangosteens "insipid", and he has access to the real thing. but remarkably, it was very tasty - sort of a peach-grape-apple thing, very floral. and not too cloying. i'd drink it again, and it beats the hell out of a $3.50 juice from whofo.