Bird's Nest Drink

Every bit as strange it sounds, the White Fungus Bird's Nest Drink is, in fact, made from bird's nests.  We found it in a minibar in a hotel in Vietnam, and I didn't believe what I saw until I checked the ingredient list and found that the first one was indeed "bird nests."  I suspect that the drink is made of the same thing as the delicacy bird's nest soup, which is cooked up from swiftlet nests.  But it gets weirder.  Swiftlets build their nests with their own saliva, which hardens in the open air. Mmmm...bird spit.

Thirsty?