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I absolutely love a good thai tea - but supporting my habit of how often I crave one is not realistic considering how much they cost to buy.  When I found this at Cost Plus World Market I was excited... yet dubious.  Having watched so many tea baristas at bubble tea joints build my thai teas in front of me, I knew that there was more to it than just a tea bag - but my understanding of tea also made me realize that the most important building block of the drink HAD to be the tea itself.  I was right. This stuff is like no other tea I've reviewed before in that I won't even CONSIDER drinking this stuff straight off the steep.  It's dark but instead of getting coffee black dark, it gets dark orange.  It gets bitter if you oversteep, but the bitter doesn't taste like the tannin overload of an oversteeped black tea... but I don't have the words to describe what it DOES taste like oversteeped.  It's just... nasty. So, the box has instructions on how to take the b...

I usually LOVE Jasmine Green tea milk teas from boba/ milk tea places..... I was hoping this would capture this flavor in a pre-mix bottle version so that I could have it at home without going out. ........ It does not. I've had milk teas before that get their milkyness from milk powder and they're ok... but apparently they were black teas and not green... and with no jasmine. I say this because the milk powder overpowers the green tea taste in the initial sip and then on the aftertaste, the jasmine combines with the milk powder to create an aftertaste that is.... soapy. It's not as bad as a lavender or violet candy as far as soapy aftertastes go.... but it's damn close. Verdict: ...... nope.

Good Thai tea flavor- but it’s just the leaf not a powder mix so you still need to add your own sweetener and cream. The first time I added cream, I did it totally wrong and only added heavy cream and a touch of condensed milk. The tea did NOT hold up to that much cream. The second time, I added simple syrup and condensed milk and got a DELICIOUS Thai tea that just happens to be a fun shade of blue. Honestly, the only thing that was really missing was the boba.

I can drink this stuff like water. It’s so refreshing. The green tea part isn’t too astringent or dry and the jasmine part isn’t too floral and both flavors are there. Interestingly enough, my father who almost exclusively drinks coffee will also chug 11 oz bottles of this with happy gusto.

Darker than I usually like my Thai tea, so I was expecting it not to be as creamy as I like, but I was pleasantly surprised! It isn’t bitter and is nice and creamy and has just enough sweetness without crossing the line into too sweet or cloying. It has a nice smokey underbite that I really enjoy. Verdict: canned it may be, but it is lovely