No. 34 Oolong Fruit Double Topping (烏龍鮮果雙Q)

Today, I had a headache all day long and really needed something to cheer me up. So I chose this tea and it worked! If you really need something to give you a portion of instant happiness it definitely is this drink! It has Oolong, but is available as green or black tea too, it has passion fruit and two toppings in one cup. It feels like there is just everything in it which you can possible top your tea with, almost. Even the passionfruit seems to be a kind of topping in this tea, since the seeds float together with the black and white boba (panda boba!) and the nata de coco. And it is great without sugar. Not too sour and due to the sweet topping it is just amazing. I love this drink! 

tea drink no. 34: Oolong Fruit Double Topping (烏龍鮮果雙Q)
price: NTW $40 (large) ~ 1,00€
rating: awsome

No. 33 Camellia Green Tea + Grass Jelly (茶花綠茶+仙草凍)

Today, I finally got to try grass jelly. That was in my list for a few days already, but somehow it didn't work out until now. When asking the clerk at the tea store whether grass jelly and camellia tea will be good friends, he told me that grass jelly has no sugar. Therefore, I chose 30% sweetness for the tea. A jelly without sugar, isn't that amazing! However, having to put sugar in the tea for extra taste is somehow a little little little disappointing. Maybe the combination with grass jelly, tea and juice would be a nice choice without additiona. sugar. I can try that. 

In that first picture, my drink looks like milk tea, but today it is not. I gues, the impression comes from shaking the drink.

After some time, the grass jelly floats and the tea has his normal colour. It is actually a quite nice combination of camellia tea and grass jelly. It really tasted healthy! I mean, this kind of taste might not be liked by everybody, but I quite liked it. What makes me really happy is that camellia green tea doesn't have such flowery taste at all. But maybe I just didn't pay that much attention to it since I was really fascinated by the grass jelly.

tea drink no. 33: Camellia Green Tea + Grass Jelly (茶花綠茶+仙草凍)
price: NTW $35 (large) ~ 0,90€
rating: good

No. 32 Sea Salt Qing Tea (海岩綠茶)

I heard about that drink from my friend Tammy who highly recommended trying the sea salt tea from 85 Café. Since I passed a store while on my search for my daily cup of tea, I finally decided to give it a try. Honestly, having salt in my tea seemed really weird. And they put milk in there as well. Tea, milk and salt. Is this going to be like Tibetan tea just without yak butter? I opted for hot and sugar free. Since the cup was a papercup, I had to wait until I came home to finally try this drink. It wasn't that bad, since the salt taste wasn't really strong. However, the milk looked a bit funny, maybe due to the salt.

tea drink no. 32: Sea Salt Qing Tea (海岩綠茶)
price: NTW $30 (large) ~ 0,85€
rating: ok

No. 31 Hazelnut Milk Tea (榛果奶茶)

Today, I had a 50 Lan drink again, since I was on a trip with friends and that tea shop appeared to be the nearest choice. Since I already tried so many teas from there, it took some time to finally decide on drink. Actually, I really wanted to try some grass jelly topped milk tea this time, but since the grass jelly was out I opted for the hazelnut milk tea instead. Without sugar and hot it really was a great drink for this rainy day. And filling, too. Usually, I choose milk teas when I am hungry, because they are usually a good substitute for sweet snacks. Althouh, cookies would go very well with any milk tea, I guess.

tea drink no. 31: Hazelnut Milk Tea (榛果奶茶)
price: NTW $50 (large) ~ 1,25€
rating: good

No. 30 Shizuoka Gyokuro + Yakult (靜岡玉露養樂多)

Today I was going to have a Japanese Gyokuro with some aloe vera topping, since I assumed this kind of topic will be not too strong and will still give the green tea a chance to show its own character. However, due to my still not too good language skills, I couldn't read the Chinese characters for aloe vera out loud, so that I just pointed on it. So I thought. When I saw the tea shop clerk pouring two bottles of yakult in a cup, I figured that I might have pointed on the wrong topping. So, I got Gyokuro Yakult tea. First, I was a bit upset, since the green tea yakult didn't really seem to be my cup of tea. But gyokuro is way better than jasmine green tea and therefore, my accidental choice turned out to be a great combination.

tea drink no. 30: Shizuoka Gyokuro + Yakult (靜岡玉露養樂多)
price: NTW $45 (large) ~ 1,10€
rating: good