Tea with milk please (BUT IT'S OOLONG TEA)
Jan 11, 2020, 5:32 am
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Bubble tea shops (which are Taiwanese in origin) often have oolong milk tea as a menu option. I've never tried it, but I'd imagine that most if not all teas (with tea leaves, not teas like rooibos or yerba mate) will taste fine with milk.
Jan 13, 2020, 7:47 am
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All I do know, having absent mindedly poured milk into green (Japanese sencha) tea when making it alongside English style black tea, is that not all teas taste fine with milk
Jan 13, 2020, 4:03 pm
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Just to be clear, oolong tea is not a black tea. The species Camellia sinensis and its variants are used for many teas, including black, green, and oolong, but these are all different teas and with widely varying levels of oxidation.
Jan 13, 2020, 11:03 pm
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Jan 19, 2020, 2:13 am
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When I was young, I would drink Lipton Tea with Milk. As I grew older and wiser, I now drink tea with just some sugar. This thread made me try tea with milk last week, and I ended up pouring it out after a few sips. I guess drinking fresh brewed ice tea as well as hot tea has changed my tastes over the years.
Jan 19, 2020, 3:07 am
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Jan 19, 2020, 10:57 pm
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Then you'd get the response that they don't have/can't make it on board because HK milk tea is made with a special steeping process and involves adding different forms of dairy.