Milk tea, also called Mongolian tea, is an indispensable drink in the daily life of Mongolian herders. The tea used for milk tea is green brick tea. Brick tea is rich in vitamin C, tannins, proteins, acids, aromatic oils and other essential nutrients. Milk tea includes the most popular Hong Kong-style milk tea / stocking milk tea / mandarin ducks milk tea, fruit juice, snow bubble, iced black tea / green tea, bubble black tea / green tea, flavored tea drinks, Kool-Aid jelly, Yogurt eight series of 200 varieties.

The general practice of milk tea

First, the tea is mashed and put into a pot of white water to boil. After the tea boils, when the tea is thicker, use a leaky spoon to fish out the tea leaves, and then continue to burn for a few moments, and cook while using a spoon to raise the tea, to be condensed, and then add an appropriate amount of fresh milk or milk powder, with a spoon to raise to the tea and milk melting, and then open the pot to become a rich and fragrant milk tea.

Tasting milk tea

Tasting milk tea is also the advantages and disadvantages of tea color, aroma, form and flavor four aspects, and need to taste, to be able to appreciate the beauty of its flavor. To simmer a pot of mellow and refreshing milk tea, in addition to the quality of the tea itself, the quality of water, fire, and tea milk is not also very important. Generally speaking, the delicious milk tea is not the more milk the better, should be the proportion of tea and milk is quite, both the tea fragrance, but also the milk of the sweet and crispy, both partial more or less flavor are not good. Also, after the milk tea is cooked, it should be instantly drinkable or sheng in a kettle for drinking, because in the pot for a long time, pot rust affects the color, aroma and taste of milk tea.

In most places to drink milk tea to add a little salt, but there are places do not add salt, just put the salt dish on the table, like to drink salt flavor on the addition of salt, do not like the salt flavor of the salt is not added salt.

Milk tea is generally eaten in a variety of dry food when drinking water, sometimes alone, it is both thirst and hunger, than a variety of modern beverages. Herdsmen drink milk tea, but also soaked with some fried rice, butter, milk tofu and hand-meat, so that both warm belly, against the cold, but also to help digest meat, but also to supplement the lack of vitamins due to eat vegetables. Therefore, there is a saying in the pastoral area: "It is better to have no food than no tea for a day". Indeed, the day of Mongolian herders starts with drinking milk tea. This hobby in Mongolia is as a historical and cultural manifestation that continues to this day. When you eat breakfast every morning, old and new friends sitting with the pot, one side carefully taste the syrupy feelings of the heart of the milk tea, taste rich Mongolian national characteristics of fried rice, cream and pastries, one side of the heart, on the world, drink the tip of the nose sweating, which is the embodiment of the proverbial: "Tea home how beautiful" the scene. If you have the opportunity to come to Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as a guest, you will be able to enjoy this historical culture in the town guest house or hotel tea in the cafeteria, bring people the fun. Of course, in the yurt is even more interesting.

The effect of milk tea

Milk tea can go greasy, digestive, benefit from the thought of refreshing, diuretic detoxification, elimination of fatigue, but also suitable for acute and chronic enteritis, gastritis and duodenal ulcers, and other patients to drink. For alcohol and narcotic drug poisoning, it can also play a detoxification role.

Milk tea around the world

Hong Kong's milk tea, also known as "stocking milk tea", in mainland China, more known as "Hong Kong-style milk tea", to black tea mixed with thick fresh milk and sugar made under the milk and sugar or more, the volume of the cup is larger, hot or frozen drinks can be, but the frozen drinks are generally added two dollars. Unlike English milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea is a popular drink among the general public and the lower class, and is usually consumed at breakfast or afternoon tea, and even at lunch or dinner if you go out for a meal. It is served in cafes, fast food stores or stalls, and can be served with Chinese or Western food. Hong Kong Milk Tea is called "silk-stocking milk tea" because it is said that milk tea filtered through silk stockings has a particularly smooth texture. Many Hong Kong style cafes have their own secret recipe for preparing milk tea with tea leaves as a selling point to attract customers. In Hong Kong, there is another drink called "yuanyang", which is a mixture of milk tea and coffee.

You can get Hong Kong-style milk tea in Shenzhen or Guangzhou, and there's also the less-sweet Guangzhou milk tea, which caters to local tastes.

Malaysia and Singapore have "La Cha", which is made in much the same way as Hong Kong's milk tea, but with an additional "La Cha" process in the middle, which is a very skillful craft. The so-called "pulling tea" is to have been boiled milk tea from a vessel into another vessel in the air, this process will be repeated several times, the height of the impulse is believed to increase the richness of the milk tea and make it more smooth and uniform. But some say the process is unhygienic and can have a negative impact on the quality of the milk tea.

Pearl milk tea, which is popular in Taiwan, is made by adding powdered rice balls to iced milk tea. The boiled rice balls are black and crystal clear, hence the name "pearl", and a variety of ingredients can be added to create different flavors.

Traditional English Milk Tea is a tea-based tea with a small amount of strong milk and a small cup size, and is usually served at breakfast, afternoon tea, or after dinner for conversation.

How to make various kinds of milk tea

Banana milk tea

How to do: Slice the banana, about 4mm wide, and put the Uni Chocolate Milk Tea and one person's portion of two or three slices of banana slices into a pot of brewing.

Note:

Excessive boiling can cause the flavor to be lost. Add a little sugar to taste, then pour on the cream and add the bananas for decoration. The trick to keep the bananas from sinking right into the tea is to cut them into thin slices so that they float.

Warm Ginger Milk Tea

How to make this tea:

1. Put the tea leaves and grated ginger into a pot of water and steep. After the tea leaves have steeped, add the same amount of milk as the water and warm it up.

2. Pour the tea into a teapot and fill the pre-warmed teacups with ginger slices about 1~2mm wide and decorate the teacups.

Rose Milk Tea

Rosehip is the fruit of the wild rose. It contains 20 times more vitamin C than orange and 60 times more than lemon. This rosehip milk tea has the effect of improving liver function. The moderate tartness combined with the sweetness of honey makes it very tasty.

Practice:

Brew tea with rosehip tea bags; warm 200cc milk in a pot, pour the tea in and reheat. Remove from heat before the milk tea comes to a boil. Add honey according to personal preference.

Pearl Milk Tea

1. Ingredients: black tea, creamer, syrup (honey) pearls, ice.

2. Tools: mixing stick (or chopsticks and spoons) SK cups (or can cover the tightly sealed cups, bottles).

1/1. Choose common red (green) tea bags in the market, brew with 350mL~500mL hot water and set aside.

1/2. 30g of creamer (or coffee confidant) per 350mL~500mL of water.

1/3. Boil 500g of water and add 750g of sugar, stirring as you add, to get 22oz (638mL) of syrup (or you can just replace it with honey).

1/4. Boil the Ajinomoto Pearl Powder Dumplings (about 30g per cup) on medium heat for 30 minutes, remove from the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, then remove from the heat and drain under cold water and add to the syrup or honey (for a better flavor) to store.

1/5. Make ice cubes.

3. Put 3~4 ice cubes, 30g of creamer, one tablespoon of syrup in a shaker, add 300mL~400mL of black tea, tighten the lid of the cup, shake until all the ice cubes in the cup are melted, and then add the burnt pearls to make a cup of perfect pearl milk tea!