Milk Tea Bubble Tea at Home DIY
Requesting recommendations on brands & type of proper Taiwanese loose-leaf tea for making BBT-shop Pearl Milk Tea at home.
Typically I enjoy pearl milk tea from Chatime, Coco's, or The Alley, and I particularly like the Roasted Milk Tea flavour with tapioca pearls. Since the pandemic lockdown, I've tried brewing tea at home and although it's not difficult the challenge is also finding the right flavour of tea. At T&T I've purchased TenRen Taiwanese ti-kuan-yin tea and although that tasted pretty good, it was not close to the typical Milk Tea BBT flavour. I've also tried some random Taiwanese Oolong tea that had very little English on the package and it wasn't good.
I understand that a good Taiwanese wholesale store is kuohua.ca Trading Company in Markham. I'd appreciate advice on which brand and type of tea leaves for making a close approximation of a good Chatime Pearl Milk Tea from this store or elsewhere.
For those who'd like to try making pearl milk tea at home search YouTube, it's not too hard. Essentially, it consists of boiling the pearls and letting them cool in sugar water, brewing the tea-leaves, mixing sugar and milk (cream or CoffeeMate) to taste, and chilling it with ice before serving.
Typically I enjoy pearl milk tea from Chatime, Coco's, or The Alley, and I particularly like the Roasted Milk Tea flavour with tapioca pearls. Since the pandemic lockdown, I've tried brewing tea at home and although it's not difficult the challenge is also finding the right flavour of tea. At T&T I've purchased TenRen Taiwanese ti-kuan-yin tea and although that tasted pretty good, it was not close to the typical Milk Tea BBT flavour. I've also tried some random Taiwanese Oolong tea that had very little English on the package and it wasn't good.
I understand that a good Taiwanese wholesale store is kuohua.ca Trading Company in Markham. I'd appreciate advice on which brand and type of tea leaves for making a close approximation of a good Chatime Pearl Milk Tea from this store or elsewhere.
For those who'd like to try making pearl milk tea at home search YouTube, it's not too hard. Essentially, it consists of boiling the pearls and letting them cool in sugar water, brewing the tea-leaves, mixing sugar and milk (cream or CoffeeMate) to taste, and chilling it with ice before serving.
