silk stocking milk tea

Silk stocking milk tea, aka Hong Kong style tea is most common kind of tea for afternoon tea (and breakfast) in Hong Kong. In the British colonial period of Hong Kong, the British habit of  "afternoon tea"  has also been brought to Hong Kong. British drink their tea with milk and sugar, which has become the basic Hong Kong tea. The main feature of Hong Kong-style milk tea is a sackcloth bag is used to filter the tea leaves to make the tea smoother. The sackcloth bag looks like women's stocking, therefore it was given the nickname "silk stocking milk tea". Comparing to the regular milk tea we can get on the island, Hong Kong style milk tea has more flavor of tea and taste stronger. Also you can adjust the syrup added to the milk tea to match up your own taste.  Here is a picture of the "silk stocking" filter. 

egg puff/waffle

Egg puff is one of Hong Kong's authentic street snacks, it is very similar to waffle. It is made with eggs, sugar, flour, and milk, and put inside a honeycomb-like iron pan to baked. It shapes like little oval eggs stick together, that is why it is call egg puff.Fresh egg puffs are very crispy on the outside and soft in the inside, people also add honey, sugar, chocolate syrup, or whip cream on top for extra taste. The best one I had in hawaii is the one little stand inside maunakea marketplace in chinatown. Egg puffs are best when it is fresh. It you leave it out for too long it loses the crunchy on the outside and will just taste soggy. here is a pic of egg puff.

Foam milk tea

Foam milk tea was just started its popularity in Hawaii recently. Not a lot of drink places have foam milk tea, but as the foam milktea is getting popular throughout Taiwan and China, people have bring it to Hawaii. The places I tried foam milktea from in Oahu are Teapresso, Shaka shaka, and momo tea.

There is a very popular milk tea place called Royal tea in China, and you will always see a line infront of there shop. The average waiting time for a cup of milk tea is 10-15 minutes, and sometimes even up to half an hour.  yet people still are willing to wait. Their signiture tea is foam milk tea. It came with differnet flavor foam. The ones i tried was cheese foam and sea salt foam. It was the best foam tea I hae ever tried.

Foam milk tea originated from Taiwan. It is basically a layer of milk foam on the top and tea on the bottom. One way of drinking foam tea is to drink without a straw, sip from the cup so you will get the taste of the foam and tea at the same time. some places call it mustache tea because it will leave you a white foam on top of your lips from drinking which looks like mustache. Or you could just shake it up and enjoy the taste of foam and pure tea together. There were some argues about how to properly drink foam tea, but I think it is unneccesary because you can drink your tea however you want it.
You can make your own milk foam at home and drink it with tea. It is actually easier than I expected. Just mix heavy whipping cream, milk, and sugar Add sea salt for extra taste. Pour it into your tea and you have your own foam milk tea.

Taro milk (tea

Taro milktea is one of the most popular drinks in the milk tea shop, but the artificial taro powder that most milk tea places use may be unhealthy. Using real taro is very healthy, but the taste is not as strong as the powder. here is a recipe of taro milk tea using the real taro.

1 slice of cooked taro cut in cubes, make sure it is cooked and soft enough to blend
1/3 cup of milk
1/4 cup of water
sugar and powdered creamer depending on your taste

and just put it in the blender and blend. Add ice if you want the slush taste.

Also taro milktea does not contain any tea so i have no idea why it is call milktea.