Have walked past here a few times before they opened shop and been here twice after its opened.
The opening special was quite enticing so tried out the black sugar PMT. I always have the tea with half sugar for my PMT so ordered the same. There is some tea flavour but it didn't come out as much as I liked it. The pearls weren't sweet and basically had no flavour. Overall the drink didn't have too much flavour to it. I didn't take too much notice but I think they brew the teas here rather than use powder?
Think this looks more authentic and feels more like the Taiwanese PMT, but the balance of flavours aren't quite right yet. I would prefer this over the other Tea/Bread joint a block away.
Just recapping my own PMT standards:
- Very good tea as a base = so good tea only comes from making proper tea from tea leaves and not powder mix (which 90% of places do)
- Good quality milk = peronsally I prefer fresh milk because I want to taste the true flavour of the tea with a hint of milk. but I believe HK taste buds due to long term climitisation of HK style milk tea with condense milk or milk powder prefer the stronger milky flavour. this is a personal thing, but I find majority of PMT places use powder or condense for cost purposes.
- Tasty PEARLS = what constitues tasty pearls vs bland and nasty pearls? True Taiwanese Pearls are chewy and QQ in flavour, not hard and undercooked with dry powdery bits in the middle, but also not overcooked where they are too sticky and soggy. In Taiwan, the pearls when cooked, are cooked with honey water so the natural sweetness is infused into the pearls.
So how do you put those three components together?
Tea should be strong, with true tea flavours that come out of the drink. Milk should be to enhance the flavour of the tea, not used to cover it. And the pearls should be the only naturally sweet part of the drink.
Personal preference see that you can select the sweetness of the tea, but I prefer only a little bit of sugar as the true Taiwanese way is for the pearls to be sweet already.
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