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For me it was the hot milk tea. Almost impossible to find in the West, every morning at near freezing temps I could cling to a metal piping hot can of sweet mil
by peterwwillis 9y ago
For me it was the hot milk tea. Almost impossible to find in the West, every morning at near freezing temps I could cling to a metal piping hot can of sweet milk tea. I can't go a day in .jp without grabbing a can.
What really surprised me is how in a place like Tokyo the machines seemed to only reliably function using change, whereas in Norway you pay for bus station lockers and public toilets with credit cards.
- rwmj 9y ago"Royal Milk Tea" is easy to make (although it's hard to clean the pan afterwards). Boil a cupful of milk with a teabag in it. Once it's boiled, take out the teabag and add sugar. In fact I think I might have one right now ...
- rangibaby 9y agoI make mine Malaysian style: 1. Make a syrup out of brown sugar by heating it in a pan with some water. The real recipe uses palm sugar but brown sugar is close enough. 2. Put it in a cup, then evaporated milk, then strong black tea. 3. Mix to taste. The three layers don’t mix together on their own. The more you mix it the sweeter the drink gets.
- rangibaby 9y agoYou’ll love Teh C if you ever visit Malaysia. The real secret to good hot milk tea is using evaporated milk.
- gkanai 9y agoMore and more vending machines work with Pasmo/Suica stored credit cards these days fwiw, especially those near the train stations or conbinis.
- masklinn 9y ago> For me it was the hot milk tea. Mine was the hot lemon tea.