Sawaddee ka welcome to hot Thai kitchen the thirsty Edition in this series I'm going to show
you how you can replicate the refreshing yummy drinks that you can find in Thailand and so we're
going to kick off our series with of course the most popular Thai drink in Thai restaurants here
Thai iced tea now Thai iced tea in Thai we call it cha yen cha means tea and Yen means cool but in the
context of beverages means iced so it just simply means iced tea but if you say that in Thailand
it's going to be the Milky sweet stuff that you get in restaurants here but first of all what
is Thai tea so you may already know this but all teas come from the same tea plant it's just in the
way they process it after harvest and makes them into different teas Oh Thai tea is a black tea
pretty much and the reason why it's got a really bright iconic orange color it's because there is
food coloring added to it so nothing glamorous there umm and Thai tea usually has artificial
flavoring added to it mostly vanilla from what I've seen so you know nothing was serious and
there's nothing inherently Thai about it either it's just the way that we like to drink it okay
so let's get started okay so we're starting with our Thai tea I'm using about three tablespoons
of Thai tea leaves per cup of water and I'm using this also cloth coffee filter in Thailand they use
this cloth bag looks like a sock really and and basically I'd recommend using a cloth filter like
this one or paper filter because there's a lot of tea dust entice tea and find the mesh strainer is
actually not going to catch everything and you get little bits of grounds like you do in French press
coffee so cloth and paper would work one table sorry one cup off off the boil water really you
can figure out the kind of set that works for you with whatever you have you don't have to
get it to be exactly this setup now we're going to let the steep for about three to five minutes
and now tea wise I'm using you can use whatever kind of thai tea you can get ahold of I'm just
using this brand here just so you can see it and and I actually chose this one because it says on
the bag please drink Thai tea mix I mean it who could say no to a bag that says please drink Thai
tea so but any brand in my experience has been has given more or less the same result so there
you go so there's that while that's getting set up we're going to get our mixing station set up
so you want a glasses to be a mixing glass so I'm going in with about but a tablespoon and a
half of condensed milk that works out to using a tea spoon and doing this about three times and of
course you can customize how much of that you want and then to this I'm going to add two teaspoons of
sugar and again what you might ask well why not just add all condensed milk and why mix it with
sugar well remember that condensed milk not only are you going to add sweetness you're also going
to add creaminess and thickness and richness which I find if I make the the sweetness with
only condensed milk it's too rich and creamy and it's not as refreshing so I mix it with a little
bit of sugar and oh my trick I almost forgot a little bit of salt just a tiny little pinch of
salt will actually make the sweetness not too cloying it will brighten up the the personality
of the sugar and it's the same reason why you always add salt into your cookies and your cakes
and things like that in the meantime we also need our ice so you want a glass full full full of ice
because this is going to go in warm and it's going to melt a little bit our ice so you need enough
then we're just going to mix it if you're doing this for the first time you don't know how sweet
you wanted you want to give it a taste at this point and you're tasting for it to be a little
too sweet because remember you're going to pour this into this Cup and if this is perfectly sweet
by the time it goes in here it will dilute your tea a little bit I'm going to add just a little
bit more sugar in here I mean each time it's always a little bit different because you may
not get your water exactly at the same each time sometimes I get more water out of the teabags and
so that's why it's always good to taste so I could theoretically pour this in here but I'm afraid of
spilling on camera so I'm going to transfer it back into my spouted picture here so I don't
create a mess see how quickly our ice is melting that's why it's important to have a ton of ice
otherwise it just won't be good okay not done we also need to add evaporated milk comes in a
can just like this okay and that's another reason why you don't want to add too much condensed milk
because you want to top it up here and you get a nice sort of waterfall gradient cool effect right
here and you're done that's pretty much theis tea and for the full recipe you can visit hot
Thai Kitchen calm although for drinks you can always just play around with it yourself keep
your eyes open for the next thirsty Edition and I'll see you next time for another drink
you