Surgery has generally been recommended for all inguinal hernias to avoid complications such as strangulation, in which a loop of intestine becomes tightly trapped in a hernia, cutting off the blood supply to that part of the intestine.
BOBO Drinks has okay boba -- it's good, but it's not the best boba in Berkeley. I ordered the passion fruit green tea with boba, and the drink had a slight sweetness and tanginess from the passion fruit and I could taste the green tea in the drink as well as small pieces of passion fruit dispersed in the drink.
The other stumps me more. It's a Spanish anise-flavored liquor called Anis del Mono with a scary-looking monkey on the label. I have never heard of this before and am at a loss as to what to do with it. The only anise liquor I've had before is pastis, but this doesn't seem to be so pastis-y.amara writes in with a good problem-unidentified (but interesting-looking!) liquor. She says: My sister just moved and I inherited some odd liquors from her that she didn't feel like trucking across the country. One is a bottle of Palinka (Hungarian fruit brandy, this one is cherry).