Tea with Milk/cream

Gtips wrote in news:1189996258.057136.207110@

Indian restaurant tea could be an Assam, maybe Assam CTC (cut-tear-curl) which is often the basis of masala chai.

If you have access to Indian or Asian markets, perhaps you can find the cheap, mediocre but powerful Taj Mahal brand of Assam tea. Or you can try uptontea.com which has many Assams, most orthodox but some CTC.

Ozzy

I drink black Indian and Ceylon teas with milk, not the Chinese black teas so much (depending). I don't drink ANY tea with cream though, way too heavy for me. The most I'll go is 1% milk.

Checking out Upton's Assams is a good start, also as someone said, boxed CTC assams at local Indian/Asian markets are good for that too. Lipton red label (or Brooks Bond in the red box) are usually at those stores.

Melinda

Have you tried PG Tips? It's a potent cup of tea (to quote another brand, and possibly showing my age).

Alan

The tea you had at the Indian restaurant was probably a cheap Assam, possibly CTC processed. Go to a local Indian grocery and pick up a few different kinds to try.

--scott

i ussually have my black tea with milk..teas like lapsang souchung, keemun black and yunnan gold. I prefer them with milk. I don't know why. a lot people says that only to drink bad black tea with milk. But i never like any black with milk before.

it is either my the black tea i bought was a lousy one or i am just someone who prefer black tea with mlik

i love black tea with milk!

Thanks for the information. I bought some Upton assams andthe tazo breakfast blend.To my surprise,the tazo held up better than the uptons with 2% milk.I also bought some from a site Kisiicafe.com that sells almost exclusive Kenyas (buy 1 get 1 free deal-how could I resist) and it simply blew both out of the park.>thanks