"You know what? A cup of Indian milk tea is only a dollar! ”
"What? Really fake? ”
Looking at the shocked look of my friend who was still complaining about the increase in the price of milk tea, I took a deep breath of Nai Xue in my hand contentedly. This is a small purchase for about twenty years.
Speaking of Indian milk tea, cheap is cheap, but whether you dare to drink it or not is still a problem. Xiao Yue mentioned in a previous article that this is a modified civilian English milk tea with Indian characteristics.
So, what are Indian specialties? It is well known that China is rich in tea, while India is rich in spices. Therefore, when it comes to Indian cuisine, it is estimated that many people's first impression is curry, and curry is made from many spices, what kind of cumin, pepper, cumin, pepper and the like. Indians' lives are inseparable from spices, just as our lives are always indispensable to tea.
Therefore, when tea was brought to India by the British, not only did it have the characteristics of the British, but also added milk and sugar, which was widely spread in India, and naturally brought Indian characteristics, which became a spiced milk tea.
India's spiced milk tea also has its own name, called Masala Chai, the average Chinese people like to call it "la tea", or simply called the name with Chinese characteristics - "five-spice tea". As the name suggests, this milk tea incorporates many local spices such as cardamom, fennel, cinnamon, pepper, ginger slices and more. With the number of spices listed by Xiao Yue, are tea lovers more and more like dark dishes?
Before the Tang Dynasty, Chinese tea drinking actually had a period of dark cuisine. Fortunately, after experiencing the extravagance and refinement of the Song Dynasty, tea began to become grounded in the hands of Ming Taizu.
The Indians' lacha is a grounded, dark dish that has been turned into after sending away the British, and they have used their imagination in this milk tea. In India, the streets are full of small tea stalls, whether it is open shops, pontane, or pushing carts all over the streets to sell, walking on the streets of India, you will always encounter milk tea. Xiao Yue believes that for tea lovers who have a strong stomach and do not mind the dark culinary taste of Indian milk tea, this is indeed a paradise for milk tea lovers.
When you drink a few more cups of Indian milk tea, you will find that it seems that every milk tea tastes different: sweet, salty, spicy... The taste is only what you can't imagine, and there is absolutely nothing you can't drink!
This phenomenon is not difficult to explain. There are many varieties of Indian spices, and there are naturally many recipes for people to choose from. The taste varies from person to person, and the recipe naturally varies. In India, almost every family that sells milk tea has its own unique recipe, and housewives will also adapt their own home formula to their own tastes. In addition, there are regional differences in the tastes of Indians, the taste of the north is relatively normal, and the south is spicy, so it has also created this phenomenon of thousands of tastes.
In China, maybe you can drink a cup of "Grandpa's Tea" and taste the taste of home in a light and mellow taste. In India, you may wish to drink a cup of "mother's tea" to experience what is called "cultural differences".