Hong Kong’s traditional milk tea goes upmarket
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Hong Kong-style milk tea, a distinctive mix of Chinese as well as British colonial influences, is consumed on average 2.5 million times a day across the city. Some milk tea makers even train for years to take part in special competitions. For decades, people have savoured it in local cafes, but increasingly the drink has gone upmarket. New brands have been introduced and milk tea can be found in bottles on supermarket shelves, often at a higher price than found in local restaurants. As manufacturers gear up to compete with upscale coffee beverages, we look at the future of the traditional beverage in the latest episode of #852stories
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The milk tea in Hong Kong is the most desirable milk tea I have tried
That’s such a weird way of describing milk tea
@@FC-eh7llisn't it some direct translation from foreign language? have seen that before, nothing weird
You need to try the middle eastern milk tea.
Just make it at home..
Translation: pay more for basically the same thing 😅
I really love what is called ( in English) milk oolong tea. The delicate taste has a kind of milky flavour. Really refreshing!
Buono il tè con latte!
Da noi in Italia beviamo a colazione anche il caffè latte (simile al cappuccino ma senza schiuma o crema di latte, con una tazza più grande).
HK:...milk tea
Mongolians:laughing hysterically
Wow Id love to go to HongKong and try it 😊
Glass bottle is the only way I would drink milk tea. Plastic bottles is a no go.
the best tea
Hong Kong, Malaysian and Thai milk teas are quite similar with localization that makes it different.
A rich bitter dark tea mix cut with milk or cream to dull the intensity, mixed with sugar. Some don't get it but some love it.
Asian tea are the best
They use fresh milk right???
Chai masala 😋😍👌
cool---HK🇭🇰～～～🇨🇳！Hong Kong is great👍🏻🇭🇰
more complex than italian sorts, i lived in HK 2020 & ate out every day
Many don't like it. For me, I would get one every time I see it.
Those who don't like it are not my friends.
@@letsgowalkwhat if they say they prefer Taiwanese milk tea instead? 😂
@@letsgowalk Hi, friend.
@@alhkcblack9617 Hey, one can like both! 😂
@@japjungho4645 Hi friend! Let's go grab an HK milk tea sometime! 🍻
Do they put hor milk tea in the plastic bottle?
I hope not because it will taste badly. I am huge fan of milk tea.
Can make different flavours with less degrees of sugar and even without sugar. Must try HK milk tea!! ☕
come to Malaysia try our 'Teh Tarik" is more tasty than Hk milk tea
And probably wayyyy cheaper
I rather go enjoy it cheaply and made fresh in a cafe. Think they are just commercialising it and wasting bottles. Leave it be
Why is HK Milk Tea described as a working-class drink? It's a drink for all classes everyone drinks it. Beer is drank by everyone too. Do we call beer a working class beverage too?
I think it's using historical context given how they contrast it with the way it is being made and marketed today.
No thanks I will prefer to drink fresh………😂
I love HK's milk tea.
Since when is milk tea traditional in Asia ????? I was born in 1958 in HK, and made tea with milk at home.
Milk tea master. Tell me how to get the credential? 🤣🤣
Lol, your obsession with HK is real. Is teh tarik Malaysia or Singapore then? Lol
@@adolphsow607 lol, I live in Hong Kong, what is your point?
@@Hkchinese888 oh really? We should meet up then, I live in HK as well.
@@adolphsow607
深水埗站C出口不見不散
🤣🤣🤣
Lactose intolerance is most common in people of East Asian descent, so how milk tea is so popular in East Asia countries?
British colonization influence👍
Asians who consume dairy on a regular basis can build a tolerance.
Asians have less cases of lactose intolerance compared to caucasians
Malaysia milk tea is the best! It suits the American in me
Wrong saar chai masala Is the best😂
I only liked HK Roast Goose and Po Lo Bao ya! 🙂🤷🏻♂️
Overpriced
Martinez Mark Clark Laura Jones Melissa
Same reporter again.
Sell it at Starbucks
كرك
In Pakistan india it's very common
All that condensed milk is a sure fire way to get diabetes. Not to mention all the rice Asians eat
It's doesn't always contain condensed milk that's just one version. Many cafe's have the sugar on the side you can add as much as you want.
@@alhkcblack9617 In hong kong there is only one version and theyy always use condensed milk which already has lots of sugar and lactose in it regardless of whether you add any extra or not. It's a highly unhealthy drink
@@fizzyfish-k4q wrong only some people add condensed milk not all. Most use evaporated milk.
@@alhkcblack9617 that's worse
@@fizzyfish-k4q it's no health drink for sure 😂 just saying it's not all condensed milk it's evaporated milk that's used more.
Don't follow your friend.🙏
burger
Very mediocre drink..
Habibi Come to India ❤❤❤
wow a new innovation black tea milk tea in China 🇨🇳 😋 💸 💰 🤑 💲 💵 💡 💡
It's called HK milk tea, comrade
@@Hkchinese888 HK is China province now
HK’s milk tea just tastes wrong to me, over brewed, it’s bitter and lack refinement; and evaporated milk is just awful, we don’t live in the 1950s any more…
You can blame the British for butchering the delicacy of true pure tea. Still I love HK milk tea for what it is. Kind of like a dessert drink
you brew coffee, you don't brew tea. the Brits bastardized tea by adding sugar and milk/cream from the very beginning. the Brits smuggled tea plants from China and setup plantations in India and Ceylon/Sri Lanka, then elsewhere.
@@alhkcblack9617
What did the Brits do to the hk milk tea? Please elaborate
@@Hkchinese888 the Brits introduced the concept of drinking tea with sugar and milk to HK. Coffee style. HK milk tea is kind of like a HK version of British milk tea. Chinese traditionally only drank tea itself no cream milk or sugar.
@@alhkcblack9617
No one force you to drink tea with milk and sugar, anyway Chinese tea is different from the tea making hk milk tea.
Came from Taiwan with Boba. Hot and cold milk tea. No mention of Boba ?
It's different than TW. HK milk tea is extremely strong with evaporated milk
Absolutely WILD thinking that Taiwan invented milk tea
Since when did Chinese drink black tea?
My guess is since at least when HK was colonized by Britain. But wouldn't be surprised if they had black tea well before then too. Global trade and all
for thousands of years lol
Brush up your history, mate. They have been drinking black tea longer than the west have.
@@Lee-tj8km thousands of years being british's bjtch xD
This is version of indian milk tea
It's just an Indian Chai (Tea)