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Milk tea refers to several forms of beverage found in many cultures, containing some combination of tea and milk. Beverages vary based on the amount of each of these key ingredients, the method of preparation, and the inclusion of other ingredients (varying from sugar or honey to salt or cardamom). Instant milk tea powder is a mass-produced product.

Variations

Local variations include:

• Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea or boba milk tea, a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Taichung in the 1980s
• Cambric tea, a sweetened hot-milk beverage, often made with a small amount of tea
• Hong Kong-style milk tea, black tea sweetened with evaporated milk originating from the days of British colonial rule in Hong Kong
• Doodh pati chai, literally 'milk and tea leaves', a tea beverage drunk in Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh
• Teh tarik, a kind of milk tea popular in Malaysia and Singapore
• Suutei tsai, a salty Mongolian milk tea
• Shahi haleeb, a Yemeni milk tea served after chewing qat
• Masala chai, also known as masala tea, is a spiced milk tea drunk in the Indian subcontinent
• Irani chai, a type of milk tea made with pure milk mixed with mawa, prepared in Iranian-style cafes in Hyderabad, India
• Thai tea, a sweet tea-based drink popular in Southeast Asia
• Royal milk tea, a Japanese preparation that involves decocting tea in milk
• Dalgona milk tea, milk tea sweetened with traditional Korean dalgona, a honeycomb-like toffee

In Britain, when hot tea and cold milk are drunk together, the drink is simply known as tea due to the vast majority of tea being consumed in such a way. The term milk tea is unused, although one may specify tea with milk if context requires it. This may cause confusion for people from cultures that traditionally drink tea without milk.

Popular culture

The Milk Tea Alliance is a term used to describe an online democratic solidarity movement made up of netizens from Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The Milk Tea Alliance arose in response to the increased presence of Chinese trolls and nationalist commentators on social media. Australia has also been suggested to be a member of the Milk Tea Alliance, however the relation to actual milk tea is tenuous with the milk product Aptamil standing in for an actual variety of milk tea in imagery.

References

1. "Franchise battle stirring up Vietnamese milk tea market". VietNamNet. September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
2. Zeng, Z.; Wang, J. (2010). Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 894. ISBN 978-3-642-12990-2. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
3. "Definition of CAMBRIC TEA". www.merriam-webster.com.
4. "밀크티" [Milk]. 시사상식사전, 박문각 (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
5. "The real Dalgona coffee, in Korea | Eat Your World". eatyourworld.com. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
6. Tanakasempipat, Patpicha. "Young Thais join 'Milk Tea Alliance' in online backlash that angers Beijing". mobile.reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
7. McDevitt, Dan. "'In Milk Tea We Trust': How a Thai-Chinese Meme War Led to a New (Online) Pan-Asia Alliance". thediplomat.com. The Diplomat. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
8. Everington, Keoni. "Photo of the Day: Australia joins Milk Tea Alliance with Taiwan". www.taiwannews.com.tw. Taiwan News. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

Further reading

• "Milk-tea-flavored bottled water". Japan Today. Retrieved September 22, 2017.

External link

Media related to Milk tea at Wikimedia Commons

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