One of my favorite things about travel is learning what is different about each culture, and what is the same. Recently, I learned that milk tea without sugar is called "tea without" in South India. "That's funny," I thought. "It's called the same thing in Hong Kong!"
Indeed, there are two types of Pantyhose Milk Tea in Hong Kong -- regular (meaning sweetened Hong Kong milk tea, or milk tea made with sweetened, condensed milk instead of evaporated milk and sugar) and "tea without" (meaning Hong Kong milk tea made with evaporated milk and served without sugar).
In South India, there's also a style of coffee that's prepared in the same manner as boiled (or decocted) tea, and poured back and forth between two cups (or a pitcher and a cup), just like chai. Hong Kong doesn't have a direct equivalent for that... but they do have a mixture of coffee and tea that's pretty awesome, too.
Interested in learning more about tea around the world? Check out my collection of international tea drinks.
Photo (c) Marko Goodwin
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