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 Coffee Lover tea?

Coffee Lover is a quite unique blend, not only because it contains tea and coffee. This blend contains two types of tea – black tea and pu’erh tea, two types of coffee – green coffee beans and ground coffee – cocoa beans and chamomile petals. Leaves are long and twisted, blended with whole green coffee beans. These ingredients are sweet, strong, calming, bitter and earthy, almost all of which can be attributed to a good cup of coffee.

What’s super interesting about this tea it contains green coffee, rather than roasted coffee. Green coffee beans are nothing more than regular coffee beans that haven’t been roasted yet. Green coffee is not uncommon at all, as all coffee starts from “green” coffee, but it’s rarely sold. Which makes it rare. Green coffee contains much more chlorogenic acid than roasted coffee, a polyphenol responsible for providing antioxidant properties in coffee (1).

Another interesting ingredient in a Coffee Lover tea blend are chamomile petals. Chamomile tea may provide soothing and calming benefits, and it’s often a tea of choice for tea drinkers that want to avoid caffeine. With these interesting ingredients, the Coffee Lover tea blend smells delicious. This tea smells like sweet, dusted chocolate pralines with a creamy coffee filling. Or imagine a rich, dark hot chocolate blended with roasted coffee and malty, earthy black tea. It’s one of those teas that will fill the air with scent and make you want to brew it immediately.

How to brew this tea?

Coffee Lover tea is a black and pu’erh tea blend, which means it’s OK to brew it with nearly boiling water. Bring water to a boil and let it cool down for a minute. Then steep 1 or 2 teaspoons of tea leaves per cup of water for 3-4 minutes. 2 teaspoons will give a stronger flavour and more caffeine. When brewed, this tea has exactly the same scent as dry leaves. It brews into an incredibly light tea with coffee and chocolate notes blended into a well-balanced flavour and a strong and long aftertaste. Although this is a pu’erh tea and a black tea, none of them are dominating this blend.

Coffee Lover tea is perfect for afternoon tea breaks when you want to awake all your senses. It’s not a typical black tea or a typical pu’erh tea. It’s not a cup of coffee either. If you love dark chocolate cocoa dusted coffee pralines, this tea is a tea for you. It’s incredibly light too, with no bitterness, only a perfectly balanced flavour. It doesn’t need any condiments, but you can add a splash of milk and a sweetener too.

Sources:

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8705492/

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What is chocolate milk tea?

If you ever made hot chocolate at home, you probably know that you can make it using different techniques. Once of them is melting milk or white chocolate in milk. And that’s what chocolate milk tea is really about – adding a bit of hot chocolate taste to a regular cup of tea. Many pre-made chocolate blends contain chocolate drops for the same reason – to add creaminess and delicious chocolate flavour. That’s what this recipe is all about – to make a true chocolate in milk tea feast.

Which tea should I choose?

You can choose different types of tea for making chocolate tea, but pure teas or tea blends with a similar flavour profile will work the best.

Try it with:

• English Breakfast tea
• pure Assam tea
• broken leaf Ceylon tea
• ripe pu’erh
• dark, heavily roasted oolong teas

You can also try:

• Mint flavoured black teas
• Orange flavoured black teas
• Strawberry flavoured black teas

This recipe is made with Chinese Dian Hong tea.

Why Dian Hong?

Dian Hong tea is a Chinese black tea with a flavour profile unlike any other teas. It has natural but light maltiness and smokiness and chocolaty notes. This tea is usually drank pure, rather than with condiments. If you are looking for a tea base with natural chocolate notes rather than flavoured blends, this tea is a perfect choice. Of course, there are many Dian Hong teas out there, and each of them will have a slightly different flavour. Choose teas with beautiful leaves and lots of golden buds.

Another excellent alternative for making this tea is Assam tea, which may sometimes have dark chocolate notes too.

How to make Chocolate Milk Tea?

This tea is super easy to make – you can make it within 10 minutes. Any dairy milk will work great with this recipe – even a skimmed milk as chocolate will add texture to tea. You don’t need extra sweeteners for this tea unless you are using dark chocolate.

Can you just melt chocolate in brewed tea?

Absolutely. You can make a cup of tea, strain it, add hot milk and shredded chocolate. However, either simmered or steamed and frothed milk will give a much nicer texture and flavour. This is actually great for sweetening your tea with something unique, rather than using regular sugar or honey. When making milk teas, simmering is the best method, although the best doesn’t mean you have to use it, especially if you are short on time.

Explore more:

• 12 Milk Teas You Can Make at Home
• Charlie’s Dream Chocolate Tea
• The Heroine – chocolate and caramel matcha latte

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Chocolate Milk Tea

Simple milk tea with white chocolate

Course Drinks

Keyword Black Tea, Chocolate, Milk Tea

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• saucepan
• Kitchen strainer

Ingredients

• 150 ml of water
• 150 ml of milk
• 2 teaspoons of Dian Hong tea leaves
• 20 grams of while chocolate, cut into small chunks

Instructions

• Add water and tea leaves into a small saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and continue simmering for 3 minutes.
• Add milk, bring to a boil again, reduce and simmer for 2 minutes.
• Remove from the heat, add chocolate and stir until fully melted.
• Strain into a cup or glass.

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