No. 29 Kenting Iced Tea (墾丁冰茶)

Today i tried an tea, which name I knew but still didn't know what to expect. So, I just ordered the Kenting Iced Tea and got a drink having perilla and nata de coco in it. The tea itself was, maybe due to the sugar free version, rather tasteless. Furthermore, I couldn't tell what tea was used to create that drink. All in all the topping gave a taste to this beverage, but the tea itself was hidden very well.

tea drink no. 29: Kenting Iced Tea (墾丁冰茶)
price: NTW $35 (large) ~ 0,80€
rating: ok

No. 28 Calpis Blackberry Tea (可爾必思黑莓)

Today, I tried a fruit tea for the first time since being in Taiwan. With fruit tea not being real tea, but a tisane, I think it still fits into my project and therefore can be reviewed as well. The drink I had was blackberry tisane with calpis. After some recherching I found that calpis is a japanese drink similar to Yakult, having a yoghurt basis, or at least a milky flavour. Although, I got the sugar free version it was still somehow sweet, but that didn't bother me that much. All in all it was not a bad drink, but somehow boring in its flavour. I mean, it wasn't real tea, but it wasn't real juice or fruit milk either. It's a kind of neutral drink. Furthermore, it was a little strange to finally drink a fruit tisane in Taiwan, since it seems to me that it tastes quite different what I am used to in Germany. But at least I found a tea drink with fruit tisane as a basis. I haven't found herbal infusions or rooibos tisanes yet.

tea drink no. 28: Calpis Blackberry Tea (可爾必思黑莓)
price: NTW $40 (large) ~ 1,00€
rating: ok

No. 27 Matcha Milk Tea + Red Beans + White Boba (抹茶紅豆白玉)

Today, due to my quite great hunger and my great interest in that kind of drink, I chose a matcha milk tea with red bean and white boba topping. Not only the colour combination was great, but the taste as well.

Since the tea itself was sugar free, the red beans had the great opportunity to send out their sweet flavour into that tea. And that sweet bean taste was a really yummy contrast to the typical green tea matcha flavour. Although, I am really not a big supporter of beans in beverages, this drink proved to me that beans actually do fit into milk tea. Since the bean flavour is really strong, the white boba has not a big chance to get through, though. But their white colour in combination with the red beans looks great as well. After having finished the tea, there was still a lot of topping left in my cup. And you can see how beautiful these red beans and white boba look together. And they even taste good together without yummy yummy matcha milk tea. i fell in love with this really filling tea. It is an amazing way to fill the empty after class stomach,

tea drink no. 27: Matcha Milk Tea + Red Beans + White Boba (抹茶紅豆白玉)
price: NTW $45 (large) ~ 1,10€
rating: awsome

No. 26 Aloe Vera Perilla Oriental Beauty Tea (蘆薈小紫蘇東方美人茶)

Today I got quite a special tea, with almost everything swimming in it. Or at least quite a lot. Since I ordered the hot variant, however, I could only taste it, but couldn't see my drink. And it was quite a challenge to actually take some of the drink home, since I usually finish my tea on my way. In this picture you can see some of the tea inside the paper cup. Beside the aloe vera jelly and the perilla, I think there was some passion fruit as well, and, as you can see, some kumquats.

Arrived at my home, I poured the rest of my drink into a glass cup to see what my tea actually looked like. Unfortunately, I already drunk most of the topping so that I cannot show it here. The taste of it was great, really fruity, although I felt a little pity for the oriental beauty tea which was really surpressed by all the other ingredients. Somehow, it was just a bit too much fruit for a tea. 

tea drink no. 26: Aloe Vera Perilla Oriental Beauty Tea (蘆薈小紫蘇東方美人茶)
price: NTW $45 (large) ~ 1,10€
rating: good

No. 25 Green Bean Milk Tea (綠豆沙奶茶)

Since it has been raining for two days already I haven't been out all day. But I need to drink my cup of tea, so I decided to go for a stroll and combine the bank with my tea shop. However, since I ate a lot for dinner and haven't really moved all day, I really needed some more action than just going to the bank and the next teashop and return after 10 minutes. So, I just went past my usual tea shop and headed down a street I haven't been to before. There were so many small shops and really filled places to eat. There was a shop of another tea shop chain as well. So, I stopped there and ordered a warm drink. Due to my language lack, though, my choice was quite limited and I just chose, what I could read. That was green bean milk tea. I am actually not the biggest fan of sweet beans, no matter green or red. They are beans and beans in a beverage are quite strange. However, beans constitute a traditional healthy (???) sweet, so a milk tea shouldn't be that bad. Still, I waited until I got back home, to try my ordered tea. It was not bad. And really filling. Actually, it was so filling that after drinking I could have gone on another stroll. 

tea drink no. 25: Green Bean Milk Tea (綠豆沙奶茶)
price: NTW $55 (large) ~ 1,30€
rating: good