What’s in Singapore Breakfast tea?

This Singapore breakfast tea comes from T2, a tea company with a whole range of unique and flavourful blends. This blend is one of rare blends that contain pandan flavour. It’s made with pu’erh black tea, genmaicha green tea, coconut chips, pandan and other flavourings. This tea contains approximately the same amounts of pu’erh and genmaicha tea, which is quite an unusual combination. Pu’erh is strong, bold, and earthy, but it’s not bitter. Genmaicha is not a bitter tea either. It’s toasty and nutty, with lighter fresh green tea notes.

This tea smells nothing short of intriguing. It’s a mix of intense creamy coconut and sweet and distinct pandan, blended into a toasty and earthy tea base. There’s a light ripe pu’erh, toasty genmaicha and creamy coconut and pandan scents. It smells deep and warming.

What does Singapore Breakfast taste like?

To make a cup of T2 Singapore Breakfast tea, bring fresh water to a boil, let it cool down to 90 degrees Celsius and steep one heaped teaspoon of tea leaves for 3 minutes. Both pu’erh and genmaicha can be re-steeped, so keep the infusion time at 3 minutes if you want to use the same tea leaves twice.

Brewed tea smells exactly like dry leaves, only a bit softer. Flavour is different from any other breakfast tea out there. All ingredients add to the flavour and create a very unique experience. At the same time, you can taste them all separately. There’s a toasty genmaicha green tea flavour, unique pandan flavour, creamy coconut and deep and earthy pu’erh. Singapore Breakfast tastes more like genmaicha than pu’erh, so this tea may appeal even to tea drinkers that don’t like the earthy ripe dark teas. It’s slightly sweet and doesn’t need any sweeteners. However, if you always add a sweetener to your breakfast tea, brown sugar would be a brilliant choice.

Just like any proper breakfast blend, you can add milk to this tea, too. Rather than adding regular milk, try it with a splash of condensed milk. Condensed milk will enhance the coconut flavour and creaminess.

Who will like this tea?

Although it contains pu’erh tea, this is not a pu’reh tea. It’s a very unique blend that can’t really be compared to any other breakfast tea. Perhaps, the most prominent flavour is pandan, and although it’s far from dominating, it does give a unique character to this tea. You will like this tea if you like toasty notes, black teas with honey, nuts or coconut, even if you don’t like genmaicha or pu’erh. It’s lighter than pu’erh, but stronger than genmaicha. This is a medium bodied tea, lighter than regular breakfast blends or pu’erh teas but strong enough to be served with milk. 

Singapore Breakfast is one of the most interesting breakfast blends we’ve ever tried. However, if you are looking for a traditional cup of breakfast tea, this is not a tea for you. You may not enjoy it if you don’t like strong flavours or intensely flavoured teas. But if you like unusual flavours, enjoy genmaicha and pandan flavour, you may like this tea too.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water or milk

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot.

Sweetened or pure? Pure or with a teaspoon of brown sugar.

Caffeine? Yes.

What’s the price? Starting from 18.00 AUD.

Where to buy? Get it from T2 website.

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What is Pineapple Green with Matcha Tea?

Pineapple green matcha is a truly unique blend from Tea People tea company based in the UK, made with simple ingredients that are not commonly blended together. It contains a classic gunpowder green tea, candied pineapple bits, roasted and popped rice, Japanese matcha tea and flavouring. At the first sight, it may seem like a regular blend. In fact, all these ingredients are pretty common in the world of tea. But matching them all together is a quite unusual thing to do.

Gunpowder green tea is mostly used for green tea blends, but it’s rarely (if ever) blended with matcha. Then, there’s popped and roasted rice, and ingredient that makes genmaicha. Until recently, roasted and popped rice was never used in any other tea besides genmaicha.

There are pineapple bits too. Pineapple is a common ingredient as well, but pure pineapple blends are not that common. To round it all up, this blend was coated in Japanese matcha powder.

Tea People are a UK based tea company that gives 50% of its profits for funding education and social projects in poor tea growing regions.   

Pineapple Green with Matcha smells DELICIOUS. It’s as close to a real pineapple as it can get. There’s just a light smoky undertone and a layer of green freshness. The scent is so intense you can smell it even before opening the pouch.

How to brew this tea?

We brewed this tea following instructions on the packaging – 1 teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water for 3 minutes at 80 degrees Celsius.

Pineapple Green Matcha tea brews into a pale-yellow liquor with light pineapple scent. Because it’s coated in matcha powder, it will be slightly murky. Don’t expect the same green colour as you would get from sencha coated in matcha or even genmaicha coated in matcha – gunpowder will never be as green. Don’t over brew it though, as the colour will get much darker.

Flavour of this tea is not as intense as the scent. In fact, it’s quite light, with deep but very light smokiness, light toasty notes, green vegetal heart, and a light pineapple aftertaste.

Gunpowder teas are not everyone’s cup of tea. They can be strong, bitter, and murky even without matcha. They are commonly used for making mint tea that’s served with a lot of sugar. However, this blend is so cleverly blended that it may appeal to tea drinkers that don’t like gunpowder at all. It doesn’t need any sweetener and would make a great daily tea for tea drinkers that want to move away from strong green tea blends but are not ready to give up on flavoured blends completely.

It’s a fun and cheerful blend that is quite forgiving to brewing mistakes.

You can use it for making an iced tea too – just use double the amount of tea leaves and steep it together with some fresh pineapple.

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