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Katie Tam

wrote:
> I understand that mixing coffee and tea in the same cup is widely
> popular in many Asian countries.
>
> Wondering if anyone in the news group has encountered this sort
> of beverage -- are there standard ways of preparing this beverage,
> etc.

I don't know if it's that popular in Asian countries, or different
country has its own beverage like that, but then this is often served
in Hong Kong style cafes.

Some of you might have heard about the Hong Kong style milk tea -- a
very traditional and popular drink in HK culture -- strong over-steeped
black tea with condensed milk.

Now, if you take only half the cup of HK style milk tea and add
coffee... that's the drink in question. It's called Yun Yeung (of
course, the name is slightly related to the famous Ying Yang in the
sense that the drink is a mix of two seperate beverages.

I've tried it several times, but I still prefer highly the HK style
milk tea.

Preperation wise... the coffee part should be easy, cuz HK people
usually just use instant coffee. The milk tea part is a bit impossible
to imitate. The milk tea has been a HK staple drink for so many
decades, each cafe has their own receipes... sometimes a cafe can get
so famous with its milk tea that people visit the cafe just to have a
cup. Even those HK style cafes in Toronto fail to bring justice to this
beverage.

And then, what's tasty to HK people can be totally different from
people from other parts of the world, or even, from tea drinkers who
are not used to add milk to their teas.

Katie