Hello,
I have been visiting this group for a while now and just recently
decided to join. Have been a fan of tea. The variety is
amazing.Actually it was my mom (who is around 75 yrs old ) who
convinced me to switch to tea from coffee. And I am glad I did.

Me and my mom love that chai tea from starbucks. But recently my mom
has not been keeping good health and hence has been missing out on her
favorite tea. So I started checking online to see if I can get more
info on how to make chai tea at home. Found out that chai tea has 4-5
spices and they have to be ground before adding to the tea, etc etc.
Well, my mom can't do that !!! Then I found this website
supremespice.com which sells spice extracts and they have something
called Tea masala extract . I was thrilled. Ordered one, used it and it
was wonderful. I just had to add 1-2 drops of that extract to my
regular tea. My mom loved it. It actually turned out better than
Starbucks chai tea.
Someone had posted a question abt what would be good Christmas gift for
a tea lover. Well, I know what I am giving my mom. That site also had
Cardamom extract and Ginger extract (haven't tried them yet). So I am
planning to give my mom the Tea masala, cardamom and ginger extracts so
she can enjoy her tea at home.

I was very thrilled about my discovery and thought I should share with
all of you.
Will be having chai tea instead of eggnog this Christmas
Cheers,
Emma

Welcome

Chai - Indian tea. I get it sometimes from a really good Indian resturant I
go to. It takes them ages to make it, because they do it like they make it
in India. In India everyone has their own recipie for Chai spices and they
keep it simmering on the stove all day to drink as they make it with a heavy
milk base. Chai, because of all the different spice recipies is a tea world
to itself.......rather like the pu-erh teas of China or the Oolongs of
Taiwan in that regard.

Kat

Hi Emma!

It would probably be better if you made to your own chai using a low
grade Indian tea and spices. There are numerous recipes for Chai out
there. Like menudo in Mexican culture, each family has their own
recipe for chai in India - with each family claiming theirs is the
best.

If I were you, I'd google some recipes and experiment with one that you
like. Or make one on your own. If you have a Whole Foods or Central
Market (HEB) grocer in your area, you can easily pick up these spices
for a reasonable price and make your own Marsala Chai.

Cheers!

Mike

wrote:
> I was very thrilled about my discovery and thought I should share with
> all of you.
> Will be having chai tea instead of eggnog this Christmas
> Cheers,
> Emma

Congrats and welcome... I have to admit my first impression was that of
Scott's and that it might be a ploy for some website. Unfortunately
online you have to have a healthy dose of skepticism or you'd be broke,
have a few cases of identity theft, and more knock-off Viagra than you
could shake a stick at (oooh... bad pun). The uptontea.com reference is
a good one, and just about any tea site linked by a long-standing
member is out of a helpful nature, not us pushing any particular site.
We all have used them, they provide a good starting point for
beginners, they don't offer any exceptional teas... but they are solid,
cheap, and dependable.

I'm not a chai fan, but my fiance is. And just some ideas: Tazo has
these cartons available in grocery stores that is a liquid chai tea mix
that she loves. We also bought "Fantasy" brand chai teabag's from our
local indian market for like $3 for a huge tub of them and they are
surprisingly good... I've even been known to drink a cup black. Other
than that, I think the most satisfaction would be to look online for
some different recipes and go have fun experimenting and learning your
local Indian market. It'll lead to an unhealthy love for Indian food...
at least it did for me

While you're there there is always "Brooke Bond" Taj Mahal tea and
Lipton Green Label Darjeeling that are also great low-priced teas.

- Dominic

Thanks to all of you for helping me with my chai tea dilemma
Being in my 50's I am not very good in posting messages to groups such
as this. I thought if I have to post a message then I have to give my
whole story first Anyway, learned my lesson. Thanks to all of you
for giving some nice suggestions.




Dominic T. wrote:
> wrote:
> > I was very thrilled about my discovery and thought I should share with
> > all of you.
> > Will be having chai tea instead of eggnog this Christmas
> > Cheers,
> > Emma
>
> Congrats and welcome... I have to admit my first impression was that of
> Scott's and that it might be a ploy for some website. Unfortunately
> online you have to have a healthy dose of skepticism or you'd be broke,
> have a few cases of identity theft, and more knock-off Viagra than you
> could shake a stick at (oooh... bad pun). The uptontea.com reference is
> a good one, and just about any tea site linked by a long-standing
> member is out of a helpful nature, not us pushing any particular site.
> We all have used them, they provide a good starting point for
> beginners, they don't offer any exceptional teas... but they are solid,
> cheap, and dependable.
>
> I'm not a chai fan, but my fiance is. And just some ideas: Tazo has
> these cartons available in grocery stores that is a liquid chai tea mix
> that she loves. We also bought "Fantasy" brand chai teabag's from our
> local indian market for like $3 for a huge tub of them and they are
> surprisingly good... I've even been known to drink a cup black. Other
> than that, I think the most satisfaction would be to look online for
> some different recipes and go have fun experimenting and learning your
> local Indian market. It'll lead to an unhealthy love for Indian food...
> at least it did for me
>
> While you're there there is always "Brooke Bond" Taj Mahal tea and
> Lipton Green Label Darjeeling that are also great low-priced teas.
>
> - Dominic