We booked a last minute flight out to Lisbon last week for a quick four-day holiday, and I certainly hope that the flight and holiday will be really relaxed and without issue. Speaking of flights and thus going abroad today I am sharing with you an exotic import that is making massive waves in London: Bubble Tea.
I know if you're an urban-dweller like me you're probably very familiar with this Taiwanese delight, however for those of you who haven't tried bubble tea before you're in for a treat. Last week Alex, May from Red Velvet London and I visited the new Chatime outlet on Rivington Street in Shoreditch. Chatime is one of the world's best known bubble tea cafes with stores across London, Leeds, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and of course Taiwan
According to their website, Chatime is a fresh tea specialist focussing on modernised Taiwanese tea culture. I think we Brits can agree that nothing beats freshly brewed tea, and this modern take on the classic cuppa is a great treat. Chatime brews their tea fresh in store using high quality tea leaves and natural ingredients.
You can also fully customised your drink using Chatime's step by step guide:
- Chose your drink from the extensive menu: for example Chatime Milk Tea
- Select your size. A regular is 500ml, a large 700ml
- Add your toppings! These are what are commonly referred to as the 'bubbles' but it's not true! You can chose from pearls, coffee jelly, red beans, coconut jelly, aloe vera, pudding and rainbow jelly
- Finally chose your ice and sugar levels! I actually found that I preferred a much lower sugar level for my milk tea to May. I generally avoid sugar in my diet anyway, but according to May Asian customers prefer really sugary milk tea. Who knew!
However, Chatime does not just serve up classic milk tea. We also sampled the lovely fresh tea range which is basically just cold tea. In Japan this is incredibly common, especially with green tea, however we went for a big-favourite; brown rice green tea. I drink green tea everyday and love the taste, but found this brown rice green tea really strange! It had a really strong savoury flavour which didn't sit quite well with me but Alex really liked it.
Lastly we enjoyed my favourite Chatime offering OF ALL TIME: mousse. Yep seriously, a milk tea mousse. Oh my god this mousse is simply the best thing in the entire world that you can get from Chatime. Yes I am a bit biased at a white Westerner customer, but honestly I couldn't get enough of the mousse drink and actually finished May's! The mousse drink looks a little like a Guinness, but this is simply a sweet cream-foam that sits atop the stunning milkshake like tea below. I opted for the chocolate option and literally fell in love. It's sweet, chocolately and creamy; the mousse drink is like a pudding in a drink. The calories and sugar are probably off the scale, but this would be my cheat 'meal' every single week!
To learn more about Chatime click on this link. Be sure to visit the new Shoreditch store soon!
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