Best Tea for Milk Tea?

Discussion in 'The Food Section' started by sean222, Jun 18, 2007.

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Best tea for milk tea

  1. Green

    6 vote(s)
    28.6%
  2. Yellow

    1 vote(s)
    4.8%
  3. Orange

    3 vote(s)
    14.3%
  4. Red

    11 vote(s)
    52.4%
  1. sean222

    sean222 Well-Known Member

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    whats the best type of bagged tea to make milk tea?....of the choices of course....unless you can suggest something else
     
  2. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    Orange Pekoe is the type I use...

    But I've heard people who use Orange Pekoe with some "Pu'er" (普洱) loose leaves...
     
  3. dreyvii

    dreyvii Well-Known Member

    I didn't know there was yellow and orange tea...haha
    But I definitely know you don't drink green tea with milk
     
  4. 無得頂

    無得頂 Well-Known Member

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    Either orange or red tea will make the best milk tea. I don't think anyone really uses green tea to make milk tea though.
     
  5. aishiteru4

    aishiteru4 Well-Known Member

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    hmmm sorry... enlighten me here... what are orang n yellow tea?? well.. i guess i need lessons with tea drinking.. i only know there was.. green... red.. and black....

    oh.. i think earl grey would be nice for milk tea.. hehehe n plus a little lavender... yumm
     
  6. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    I don't think orange tea exist... although yellow tea is a type of specialty tea, And junshan Yinzhen (君山银针) is one such tea...

    If one categorize tea by colour, there are quite a few: Red tea, Green tea, Black tea, White tea, Yellow tea and Oolong tea (qingcha 青茶) which are semi-oxidized tea...

    Never heard of orange tea though... Seriously. Would it be like the colour of the package from Twining??? -lol
     
  7. 無得頂

    無得頂 Well-Known Member

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    Orange tea is just a lighter version of red tea.
     
  8. aishiteru4

    aishiteru4 Well-Known Member

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    hmmm correct me if i m wrong... red tea's are english tea rite? my mum calls english (western) tea.. hung cha.. (english like-->english morning breakfast...irish breakfast...ceylon...earl grey...) yes ? no?
     
  9. sean222

    sean222 Well-Known Member

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    ahh no way....lol i just bought a box of 100 green tea....cuz i thought that was it......dam
     
  10. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    LOL, you can have honey green tea instead :) It make a great summer drink when chilled...
     
  11. dreyvii

    dreyvii Well-Known Member

    ^Yeah yeah...it's good!
     
  12. aishiteru4

    aishiteru4 Well-Known Member

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    oh besides that.. green tea's good for anti oxidant... hehe
     
  13. tonkachi

    tonkachi Well-Known Member

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    a dark dark red tea with some milk makes the best milk tea imho...or if u don't have good red tea using 3 lipton tea bags works pretty good too hehe

    green tea with honey tastes good also
     
  14. 無得頂

    無得頂 Well-Known Member

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    Are you sure lipton tea bags make good milk tea? I tried it with 1 and 2 tea bags and it's awful.
     
  15. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    I use Tetley ones, 3x orange pekoe for a cup of nice tea...
     
  16. sean222

    sean222 Well-Known Member

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    cool, i'll try it.....the green tea is lipton is was on sale lol....2$ for 100......so i'll play around with that for awhile lol
     
  17. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    ^LOL! well, you can try to add milk to it and tell us what it taste like. -lol

    In my opinion, the best tea to make milk tea would be the 'English Tea' (Twinnings or similar brands) :)
     
  18. dreyvii

    dreyvii Well-Known Member

    Whoa...3 bags? Wouldn't that keep you awake for a couple of days? -sweat Haha...but some would claim no effect, I guess
     
  19. sean222

    sean222 Well-Known Member

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    i actually have no effect from tea, i feel more sleepy after tea...lol
     
  20. 無得頂

    無得頂 Well-Known Member

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    That's the whole point. When you can't sleep, you drink tea to help you sleep.