Message #8840

[Perry]

Two things I hate, sweet, flowered up, coffee or sweet, spiced up tea.  I lived in Africa for a year and drank good tea 3-4 times a day.  People try to make chai and put 16 overly sweet things in there and ruin the whole thing; and yes I spit it out the first few and last times I wasted my money on the hope of getting something that resembles chai.

For real chai,
1) buy good tea - P G tips is a good and reasonably priced tea that you can now get here in the states (#1 tea in England I think)
2) Add a small amount of brown or turbinato sugar 1tsp per cup is enough for me
3) Small amount of ginger - in Kenya I had it often with fresh ginger root although it is usually served just with sugar.
4) even less cinnamon
5) Make the tea with a quarter to half and half milk to water - this is how they do it in Africa - in part to "pasteurize" the milk and prevent disease.  This is a major no-no in Great Britain.

No vanilla, nutmeg, hazelnut, etc for me