Don’t fight milk tea with Fujianese

“Mu Li Fu, osmanthus brew, Chigan frozen milk tea, Da Hong Pao milk, Mengchu cheese Cloud, Green Fog cheese cloud, Fu Yu Guanyin milk tea, White bud Qilan milk tea, small varieties of roast milk, Shou Mei milk tea, Ginseng oolong milk tea, Jin Jun eyebrow milk tea… ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ “why! Why the choice of fujian milk tea can be so many! In addition to a variety of fancy collocation, even tea more than other provinces. The typical milk tea shop in Beijing is either black tea, jasmine green or spring season, with the tea bases and other ingredients arranged back and forth. On the other hand, fujian’s local milk tea, is a small kind of mountain, Da Hong pao, Tieguanyin, which take out are all loud!

01 A Self-deprecating Fujianese/a self-deprecating pot of tea

Kekettle tea, berry super crazy, Tang Mo tea, Musen tea, MIMIFASO, sevenbus, which are available only in Fujian, have full local characteristics. You see ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ “pot see ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌” is actually ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ “fujian ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌” homophonic? The name of qingyuan pure tea also comes from Qingyuan Mountain, a popular tea drinking resort in the heart of Quanzhou.

Fujian itself is a big tea-producing province, producing green tea, white tea, green tea and black tea of the six types of tea. Moreover, fujian is also the birthplace of jasmine tea. Therefore, the tea base in the menu can be combed according to different tea types.

These kinds of tea, reflected in the menu, become green yan, Assam, four seasons spring, Tie Guanyin. How can I tell if I’m drinking black tea green tea oolong?

Green tea is

Green tea, matcha and jasmine tea usually show up in the introduction of raw materials. For example, green yan, wood pear fu (wood pear homophonic mo from homophonic jasmine) are jasmine tea tea. Jasmine tea is used as the base of most milk green tea due to its outstanding fragrance more widely than green tea.

This kind of tea base tastes light, but when you drink it, you can feel the clear and elegant jasmine fragrance.

Black tea is

Large leaf black tea is also the most used tea base in milk tea, such as Assam Tea. But in fact, in addition to Asam milk tea, Ceylon black tea, Yunnan Dian Hong, English and German tea produced milk tea have similar flavor, we feel when drinking milk tea malt rich flavor is usually they, with Hong Kong-style milk tea as the representative

Zhengshan small species and Chigan are the tea base with Fujian characteristics. Some dedicated brands choose traditional Masayuki tea with the aroma of pine smoke to make milk tea. This is the most classic taste of milk tea, which can be traced back to the Victorian era.

Chigan refers to the lobular black tea produced in Fujian province. The phenolic substance and intensity of lobules black tea are not as strong as those of lobules black tea, and the blend into milk tea is more smooth and smooth, without the granular feeling formed by the combination of phenols and proteins in milk. This type of tea base has a sweet and rich flavor, like caramel.

However, some brands refer to fujian-produced black tea with the name Zhengshan Xiaochan instead of Chigan, and the tea does not have the aroma of pine tobacco, which requires careful identification.

Oolong tea is

You may have seen that the main battlefield of Fujian milk tea is actually green tea (oolong tea). Four Seasons spring, Tieguanyin, Jinxuan, Baiya Qilan, Phoenixancong, and many other varieties you may not have heard of can be used as oolong tea base, plus can be mixed according to different levels of baking and different varieties.

In other words, the oolong tea in milk tea (such as table oolong, fragrant oolong, baked oolong, Dahongpao, single bush and flavored green tea) refers not to any specific tea, but to each family’s recipe. Eventually formed ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ “also known as the four seasons, spring, can every tastes different ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌” brilliant.

In milk tea shops, the benchtop oolong is usually called “Four Seasons Spring”, “Frozen top” or “Jin Xuan”; Fragrant oolong is also represented by four seasons and spring; The oolong is represented by Tieguanyin and Bai Ya Qi LAN. Flavoured green tea refers to reprocessed teas such as white peach oolong (usually with a fresh scent) and osmanthus oolong (usually baked), which are made with additional ingredients.

02 Why is Fujian’s milk tea so beautiful? / How to choose the right milk tea?

Many people may think that Fujian itself is a big tea-producing province, is also the birthplace of green tea, white tea, black tea, tea has more natural advantages. But actually now logistics is so developed, origin is not a problem at all.

The real reason lies in the tea drinking culture formed for a long time in fujian and other southern regions, which has a higher acceptance degree of adequate tea taste! Consumers are willing to experiment and encourage innovation in product development. Especially, the variety of green tea brings more creative space for blending.

For example, “Four Seasons spring” itself is the name of a kind of tea plant, but in the raw materials of new tea drinks, it is the representative of a fragrant oolong. That is to say, most of the four Seasons spring is made up of various kinds of granular fragrance oolong, but the author drinks a hint of baked oolong in a four Seasons spring milk tea. The same house of oolong milk tea, raw material table marked is the fragrance of oolong, but accidentally drank a single cluster of strong and sharp flowers. Compared with the two, the four Seasons Spring milk tea is more mellow and smooth, while oolong milk tea is more fragrant and full of tea flavor.

Because of the combination of tea base, it is very difficult to mix raw tea with milk tea, but we can all feel the quality of milk tea from our own experience. After all, the milk of milk tea has the difference of vegetable fat powder, fresh milk, three flower milk, etc., and the tea used also has the difference from a few yuan per kilo to a hundred yuan per kilo.

After tea and milk fusion, good milk tea smooth, high degree of fusion, aroma, taste balance, tea clear aroma. And bad milk tea or astringent taste prominent or too sweet greasy, may also be too obvious flavor flavor.

For example, the most common type of jasmine tea, milk tea, has a rich, pleasant jasmine fragrance in good quality and a stiff white orchid smell in low quality.

The same is true of white peach oolong. The aroma of good white peach oolong is real, rich and lasting, and the fragrance of it can also be felt in the tea. Bad white peach oolong flavor is obvious, and aroma floating, smell very sweet drink up but no peach fragrance.

In addition, dahongpao of low quality can only feel the strong smell of roasting, while the fire aroma of good Dahongpao milk tea now has a hint of natural flower and fruit aroma, and the characteristics of tea are also obvious.

Finally, how to order your favorite milk tea?

If you like full-bodied flavor and strong tea taste, you can choose big leaf black tea milk tea, such as Assam milk tea, Ceylon milk tea, Dian Hong milk tea and other Hong Kong style milk tea, but usually easy to astringent;

Tieguanyin milk tea is the choice of tea with sufficient flavor, mellow and not astringent.

If you prefer light, smooth and sweet tea, you can choose small leaf black tea milk tea, such as chigan milk tea or Zhengshan milk tea.

You can try jasmine tea milk tea, osmanthus oolong milk tea, Qilan milk tea and single bush milk tea, among which jasmine tea milk tea has a light taste.

Earl Grey and White Peach oolong teas are usually flavored with an edible essence.