How to make milk tea the New York City style?
Thomsa
tea with milk in it. It tastes really good. In a windy and
cold winter day, it can really warm you up. I tried to make
it at home. With the obvious ingredients: tea bags(red
tea) and milk and sugar. However, it just doesn't taste as
good as the ones from the stores. Anyone knows what's
missing? Now I'm in LA, the Chinese bakery stores here
don't make that kind of tea, but I really miss it and wish I
can make it myself.
Tony Lew
Use sweetened, condensed milk instead of milk and sugar.
Thomas
Lew) wrote:
Hmmm, I guess it's not so. Maybe some kind of cream?
Tho...@system.com
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That sounds a good idea. Where can I get this sweetened, condensed milk? And
what brand?
Jean B.
> cans at any supermarket. Try the baking section.
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> -sw
Nah. Here it's with the dried and evaporated milks. Generally the
same aisle as the coffee and cocoa. Borden is another big name in
sweetened condensed milk.
Jean B.
Tony Lew
This is a standard product carried by any supermarket. It's not a
specifically Asian product. You should be able to find it at
any large store like Safeway, Kroger, Raley's, etc, and most
smaller stores as well. It's usually stocked with the canned foods
and not in the dairy refrigerator.
> And
> what brand?
The most popular brands are Eagle and Borden.
Buy the regular, not the low or nonfat. It wouldn't taste the same.
DC
> tea)
The original item is called "Tea Dust". This is the stuff you find at the
bottom of the crate or sacks of tea or whatever's left after export. It is
coloured with some kind of red dye? & used locally in SE Asian
countries(Malaysia&Singapore). It's often the poor man's tea after the good
stuff have all been sold & exported to the West. But over the years.. (w/o
going into a social & economic dialogue) things have changed & it is now
more popular to find English brands of tea etc. However, you can still find
small coffee shops/stalls selling tea brewed from red tea dust in
Malaysia&Singapore. You start by pouring in your red tea dust into a enamel
tea pot, add water & bring it to boil. You would then let it sit/brew if you
like it strong. Use a muslin cloth styled tea strainer when you pour your
tea into your mug or glass. Before that, you pour thick condense milk into
your glass/mug then pour your tea in. Now stir to achieve required
sweetness. If you don't like it very sweet, stir up & mix 1/2 the condense
milk at the bottom of the glass. The rest will remain at the bottom of the
mug/glass. You don't really have sugar with it as it's sweet enough unless
you are a sugar junky or just like having bad teeth.
Train Brand Best Tea Dust (flavoured) produced by Koh Kian Huat (Malaysia).
Ingredients : Tea Dust & Vanillin (1%)
This gives a vanilla flavoured kick, perhaps this is why yours doesn't taste
the same.
The habit of drinking tea with condense milk is derived from the lack of
fresh cow's milk in old colonial countries like India, Kenya & Malaysia &
Singapore where the English once ruled. Condense milk or evaporated milk in
tins were the only option of having tea with milk. I think you'll find it
pretty much a norm in most ex-colonial countries once ruled by the English.
DC.
arby
the less expensive evaporated milk is often substituted in restaurants
but it is not as rich...
as for milk tea...ive seen both canned milk and fresh half and half used
in new york in different restaurants
arby
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Tippi
> tea with milk in it.
perhaps it's what we call "Hong Kong style tea". Tea made by boiling
(not steeping) ground tea leaves, with evaporated milk (from a can)
added before serving. There are packages of instant tea with tea, milk
and sugar all in one to which you just add hot water, should be
available in Chinese grocery stores (as are the ground tea leaves).
daki...@gmail.com
I need to buy some of this tea, I hope you can help me locate this brand Red Train Tea - I'm in USA, Thanks.
Alonso2233
many euopeion country of people likes the tea in cold winter season.it
makes very easy.tea bags milk and suger are use in it.i really very
tasty.mostly people likes them.
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