The long-standing Hong Kong-style milk tea culture: how is it different from Taiwanese milk tea?

China News Service, August 16.

Hong Kong-style milk tea is named silk stocking milk tea because the tea bag looks like silk stockings, and Lanfangyuan is famous for its silk stocking milk tea

According to the report, fragrant, thick, smooth, and sweet are the first impressions Hong Kong-style milk tea leaves on diners

Ceylon black tea produced in Sri Lanka is used as the base, more than three kinds of tea leaves are added, and evaporated milk is added to make a classic Hong Kong-style milk tea

Hong Kong-style milk tea has a long history

Huang Jiahe, chairman of the Hong Kong Coffee and Black Tea Association, said that as early as the 1930s, his father Huang Qiao had set up a trading company in Hong Kong to import tea and coffee

According to reports, with the surge of Hong Kong's population in the 1950s, in order to meet the needs of the people's diet and employment, big-name stalls came into being, which also gave milk tea a considerable market size

Looking back at the development of Hong Kong-style milk tea, it is not difficult to find that the formation of Hong Kong-style milk tea contains the imprint of the times and the unique wisdom of Hong Kong people

In Huang Jiahe's view, Hong Kong-style milk tea still has an important place in the hearts of the public

The participants of the Golden Tea King Competition are getting younger

According to the report, in order to promote tea culture, the "Golden Tea King Competition" jointly organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC) and the Hong Kong Coffee Black Tea Association has been successfully held for 12 times since the first Golden Tea King Competition was held in 2009.

In the Golden Tea King Competition, you can see milk tea masters from all over the country, and even foreign masters, which makes the influence of authentic Hong Kong-style milk tea continue to expand

"However, in recent years, milk tea masters have gradually become younger

With the expansion of the influence of Hong Kong-style milk tea, Beijing, Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, and even overseas tea brewers have come to the Golden Tea King Competition to compete

　　Hong Kong-style milk tea VS Taiwan milk tea flavor is very different

　　According to reports, Hong Kong and Taiwan have had decades of milk tea culture

　　Hong Kong-style milk tea is also known as "silk socks milk tea", and the name contains the wisdom of Hong Kong people's life

　　The development of milk tea in Taiwan is later than that in Hong Kong

　　But bubble tea became popular in Taiwan in the 1980s