The origin of Old Taipei Milk Tea consists of three main parts: the beginning origin of Old Taipei Milk Tea, the history and culture of Old Taipei Milk Tea, and the types of Old Taipei Milk Tea.
I. The beginning of the origin of the old Taipei milk tea
The origin of the old Taipei milk tea in the end when it began, now it is very difficult to accurately prove, but when it began to spread and become a real sense of commodity is a historical evidence.
A.D. 1600 and later in 1602, Britain and Holland have set up the East India Company in India, which is the continuation of the large-scale colonization of Asia by Western powers after Portugal and Spain, and France later also participated in; it is precisely because of the two East India Company with a national background, in the plunder of the material resources of Asia at the same time, but also to the rich and diversified culture and cuisine in the ancient Asia to the West and the world. cuisine to the West and the world, and milk tea is one of them.
II. The history and culture of the old Taipei milk tea
Since the British and Dutch will be milk tea into their own countries, due to the different climate and eating habits, the British and Dutch people are not accustomed to drinking spicy and strong Indian-style milk tea, are taken to remove the spices, and then mixed with different varieties of tea to replace the spices to make milk tea and add maple sugar as a flavoring agent, which is the prototype of the modern milk tea and the basic recipe.
Based on this foundation, the Dutch have high quality cows and milk resources, and love dairy products and milk flavors, so in the Dutch milk tea, the flavor of milk is stronger and more prominent, which has the advantage of boiling too strong and bitter tea flavor to the strong milk to dilute the flavor of the tea to slow down the taste of tea, into a tea flavor mellow and milky milk tea drinks.
This Dutch-style milk tea was soon accepted by most of the countries in Europe, and was combined with the food customs of these countries to form a continental flavor. Now all over mainland China, Taiwan milk tea its roots is the originator of the Dutch brought the continental milk tea.
Three. Old Taipei milk tea varieties
There are many varieties of milk tea, specifically how many kinds of hard to say, many countries in the world have their own milk tea, but from the flavor points up, the main British flavor, continental flavor, Arabian flavor, South Asian flavor, South American flavor, African flavor, Japanese flavor of these major flavor types, especially the British and continental these two major flavor types.
They can be found around the world, China also has milk tea, but mainly ethnic minorities, such as Tibetan ghee milk tea and Mongolian milk tea, these milk tea is characterized by nutritious calories, but the flavor and palatability is difficult to be accepted by consumers of other nationalities in the country, and has become a regional self-produced and self-service local specialty products.
While there are many varieties of milk tea, but the market or the range of origins can be popular varieties of Taiwan milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea, Hong Kong-style mandarin ducks milk tea, American chocolate milk tea, Nanyang Coconut Curry milk tea, Taiwan Aiyu Milk Tea, Taiwan Jasmine Green Milk Tea, China's Tibetan Ghee Milk Tea, Chinese Neimenggu Salted Milk Tea, English Almond Milk Tea, British Lavender Milk Tea, British Osmanthus Milk Tea, English Safflower Milk Tea, English Flower and Herb Milk Tea, English Earl Grey Milk Tea and so on.