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Better "dai pai dong" places in Hong Kong making authentic HK-style milk tea use their own blend of black teas, definitely not Liptons. They over-extract the tea leaves using a filter bag shaped like a pantyhose-fishnet setup (thereby also colloquailly known as "pantyhose tea"). They use unsweetened condensed milk and you add in your sugar to taste.

THe best ones are very tannic-ky but is rounded out by the condensed milk. The Cafe de Coral chain in HK makes a decent cup usually.

In terms of finding a good cup here in Toronto, Richmond Court used to make a fairly decent one but I've found it really depends on the skill of the cashier pouring the tea as the proportion of milk to tea is crucial. It also depends on how long the tea has been sitting around percolating with the tea leaves.

A good cup of HK milk tea is in a way a contradiction of good tea making principles, as you let the tea leaves sit in the hot water for an extended time and really over-extract the tea, making for a very strong dark drink.

The majority of places in Toronto claiming to have "authentic" HK-style milk tea serves grossly diluted dish liquid which is pretty much undrinkable and disapointing each time.

I think it also has to do with the water source, as I've never tasted one here that comes close to a generic cup from any Dai Pai Dong in HK.

I haven't been to all of the above mentioned places, but look for that pantyhose-fishnet contraption with a cheap aluminum tea flask. If it ain't there, it ain't authentic.

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My husband makes strong HK style milk tea by perculating a special blend of milk tea leaves in a coffee perculator for about an hour. You can also add some egg shells to the leaves to neutralize the acidity (optional). Some people like condense milk with their milk tea. My husband likes to use evaporated milk and sugar. We are trying to stay away from hydrogenated fats..but I am pretty sure that adding a little coffee mate, along with the milk, makes the tea smoother.

We have a friend who brings us the special tea blend from a Hong Kong Tea shop. I would think that a good strong black tea will do. Please do not use tea bags, since you will never get the right strength in the tea to stand up to the milk. Perhaps in a pinch, you can perculate the tea bags. By the way, lipton tea in Hong Kong, even the ones in tea bags, is celon tea. The lipton tea in the US is orange pekoe. There is quite a bit of difference between the two.

Finally, if one must use the 3-1 instant milk tea mix, the lipton brand is much better than the Owl brand. Also, the instant Lipton milk tea from HK, also available in Vancouver, is slightly different than the ones you can get from 99 Ranch. We did an blind taste test among Owl, HK Lipton and US Lipton and HK Lipton instant 3 in 1 won hands down for smoothness, concentration and sweet to tea ratio.

There is one other technique that the pro's use to make the milk tea smooth...they pour the tea back and forth between containers. We can't do that...but perculating the tea for a long time is pretty good...it takes the "greenness" out of the tea. I hope this helps.

Margret

Badger of Basra posted:

michelle is so pretty

Badger of Basra posted:

i love michelle. michelle 2024

that was a great speech

nutranurse posted:

i thought all the kennedys were dead

nutranurse posted:

i thought all the kennedys were dead

Badger of Basra posted:

i love michelle. michelle 2024

that was a great speech

Badger of Basra posted:

i love michelle. michelle 2024

that was a great speech

PupsOfWar posted:

How many hours per week do you think trunp spends doing anything that could be described as work

I was just thinking how obama is a very nose-to-grindstone style of executive and regardless of ideology it'd be viscerally weird going from that to a guy who probably doesnt know how to put in 40 hours in a week, much less the hundred plus required of the presidency

Wonder how much that changes the routine for the secret service or the White House menial staff

oswald ownenstein posted:

Holy poo poo lol warren says "the system is rigged"

I wonder if the irony is lost on her. I'm not sure native americans have a word for irony.

Aeryk posted:

welp just used my knowledge of python to implement my own pokemon tracking map, guess it was good for something

Aeryk posted:

next up, aggregating the data and determining if there is a consistent spawning algorithm

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

there are a lot of packages but if you want to try something cool, give tensorflow a shot

Gravel Gravy posted:

Bernout friend saying that she heard from another friend that they took away Bernie signs when people entered the convention.

And then they show bunches of Bernie signs on the convention floor

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

ok, this is getting a bit self indulgent

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

ok, this is getting a bit self indulgent

8-Bit Scholar posted:

This election wasn't about the candidates, true, it was about corruption in politics. Sanders is going to willingly endorse that corruption. It only serves to illustrate that Gary Johnson is the last rational choice remaining.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

ok, this is getting a bit self indulgent

Rollofthedice posted:

nutranurse posted:

give the guy his time in the spotlight

also bernie isnt wrong

it just sucks that some of his supporters are so loathsome