XXXIII: Coffee, Tea or Me?
When in Taiwan, drink as the Taiwanese do. And that means, milk tea. You can walk down the street and bound to stumble on a milk tea store. Their main business is milk tea in many different variations but some do offer fruit juice as well. The most peculiar one was not a milk tea shop but a papaya milk shop. Now, if your man tells you to drink more of those, he's probably trying to subtly hint that your jugs ain't big enough. It's a myth but definitely a cheap way to increase the hope of increasing your breast size. If anyone can truly attest to that with empirical evidence, I shall religiously drink one daily.
There are quite a number of milk tea chain stores around, none of which is Chatime. Following are few that I tried, from the first to the last.
Sorry but I can't read Chinese so can't Google which store this is. Paired with fried chicken (highly suspect that's another national thing), it was good. Not too thick or milky. Since you can customize the level of sugar and ice generally, you can't quite go wrong.
Got this in Tamsui after brunch. It's funny because during most of our walks, we could easily find a milk tea shop but not on that morning. Maybe it's because it was still early so most of the shops were still closed. Or that law about how things never seem to be there when you look for it. That turned to be true as well because right after we bought this, there were few more shops few steps down the road =_=
I thought I'd be drinking myself to death with milk tea but it turned out otherwise. Generally, my beverage of choice these days are plain water as it's easier down the throat. Plus, dairy drink has the tendency to make you thirstier than when you began.
My third and final cup from this slightly suggestive chain store was the non-milk tea version. The main point is the bubbles or pearls or tapioca balls. I loved the drink but because we only drank it some time later, the pearls weren't so nice anymore. Or perhaps, theirs aren't that nice to begin with.
Generally speaking, it does make sense to buy these instead of going into 7-11 or Family Mart for some beverage. However, these drinks are relatively cheap at under RM 5 or NT50 and it comes in a rather large size with pearls (omfg). Their convenience store does sell instant packaged milk tea as well but no bang for your bucks compared to these that are freshly made. It's not uncommon to see people buying these to drink at home and not just at the store to go along with their takeaway dinner.
Maybe milk tea is the Taiwanese national drink.
There are quite a number of milk tea chain stores around, none of which is Chatime. Following are few that I tried, from the first to the last.
My third and final cup from this slightly suggestive chain store was the non-milk tea version. The main point is the bubbles or pearls or tapioca balls. I loved the drink but because we only drank it some time later, the pearls weren't so nice anymore. Or perhaps, theirs aren't that nice to begin with.
Generally speaking, it does make sense to buy these instead of going into 7-11 or Family Mart for some beverage. However, these drinks are relatively cheap at under RM 5 or NT50 and it comes in a rather large size with pearls (omfg). Their convenience store does sell instant packaged milk tea as well but no bang for your bucks compared to these that are freshly made. It's not uncommon to see people buying these to drink at home and not just at the store to go along with their takeaway dinner.
Maybe milk tea is the Taiwanese national drink.
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