Not many people know that the actual Thai Tea only has artificial vanilla and the yellow food coloring. As a Thai, I thank Chef John for elevating it into something more worthy of all the fame it gets. Very excited to try this recipe.
@@dearharuharu118 Honestly not particularly? If you search it up like two people spill the beans that it's just a sorta pre-made tea mix with artificial flavor. The phrase "Cheap and Cheerful" is used as it's not particularly meant to be some bougie gourmet thing.
During this heatwave in the northeast I've been drinking iced tea with lemonade and ice coffee with chocolate, vanilla and cinnamon, this tea blows those away, I've got to try it
My friend from South Africa gave me some rooibos specially grown there. I didn't like rooibos until I had real South African rooibos. It was delicious!
Apparently you are unfamiliar with southern sweet tea. Growing up in the south I can assure you that was just a touch of sugar by southern standards. Southern sweet tea honestly shares more in common with syrup than tea.
@@OmegaGamingNetwork You're not lying. My family's "recipe" is 100% just simple syrup with some teabags simmered in it. 1 cup of sugar and 2-3 tea bags for every cup of water. Simmer. Cool. Serve. With metformin and Ozembic. Preferably fried. LOL
You are so correct that any amount of Thai iced tea is never enough. One of my favorite local places will give you a cup without ice for an extra dollar and it is SO worth it because that's like twice as much tea!
That’s what I do when I order horchata! I buy a huge glass of it as I leave the grocery store and then I put some over ice when I get home. The rest goes in the fridge to stay cold!
“If there’s a better beverage to serve with spicy foods, besides beer” is why I love Chef John. His slightly off kilter sense of humor aligns well with mine.
If you add Horchata to sweetened or unsweetened black iced tea, you get a Mexican style version of this tea. It tastes somewhat similar due to the cinnamon and milk in the Horchata.. I do this at a fast food restaurant called El Pollo Loco, which can be found in the American southwestern states.
This looks delicious. I have been using coconut milk instead of milk with mine as well. The only thing I would add is that I would use stevia or monk fruit sweetener and would take off the labels so the inks don’t absorb into the tea . Delicious!!
Thank you for this version…it lends itself to any type of sweetener besides sugar. I love this tea, but being pre-diabetic for years, and recently declared full on diabetic II, I appreciate a recipe that doesn’t use the sweetened condensed milk. I can’t wait to try this with the coconut milk!
I like a few slices of fresh ginger and some hibiscus flowers in my spiced tea. In addition to cardamom, star anise, and whole cloves, as in this recipe.
He must be part southern lol. I can't stand anything more than maybe a half teaspoon of sugar. Unless I'm making the spice tea we call "chai tea" in the west, then I'll add enough jaggery or unrefined brown sugar to balance out the heavier spice flavours
This is such a delight to see here! Thai tea is by far my favorite drink of all time, I have never tried it with coconut milk thank you for the suggestion!
Chef John , since you are straining the tea anyway.... its probably a really good idea to open the teabags into the hot water so the paper doesnt soak up the best flavors
When you get it at a restaurant and they charge you $5 for it, it's easy to limit your intake. If I made that at home, I'd drink the whole thing in one sitting. lol And as a diabetic who shouldn't even have one of those ... I'll have to live vicariously just watching this video. ;)
I've been making agua fresca with Truvia lately & enjoying it, I'm gonna give this recipe a try but I've gotta do the math re: conversion from sugar to Truvia first (and probably reduce further for personal taste ☕)
Just here for the people who have never had Southern sweet tea adorably thinking that was a lot of sugar for tea. I mean he put it in the name and here you are, shocked it's got enough sugar to barely count as sweet tea in any self-respecting home with Southern heritage.
I'll have to give this a try, but find it hard to believe anything could be better than Agua de Jamaica for a hot summer time drink. 😍 I'm surprised Chef John doesn't have a video for it already! (Unless I missed it) 😉👍❤🍸🍻
I’ll hafta try this “sweeten the tea” method with Stevia (while expressing how envious I am of those who can tolerate real sugar and/or sweetened condensed milk)
Thanks for the recipe! I think that silicone big straws are the best, bc they are bendy and reusable, but still tensile enough to mix with (I mix my coffee with my heat proof silicone bendy boba straw every day! )
Actually the sweetened condensed milk is mixed in with the tea and the stuff they put on top is unsweetened evaporated milk. Also, no one makes it with coconut milk, Chef John. It might taste good so I'll have to try it but as a Thai person I've never seen anyone put coconut milk in it. I also have a cheat version that I make all the time where you can adjust the sweetener to your taste (and is a bit healthier as well.) You brew the tea as usual (personally I like to let it steep for at least 15 mins.) and use powdered whole milk instead of all the usual liquid milks. Then add sugar or sweetener of your choice to your liking. I use either Stevia or monkfruit sweetener. It tastes exactly like the real thing. You don't need to chill it cause the the milk powder and sweetener will bring down the temp and you can adjust the creaminess to your taste as well by increasing/decreasing the amount of powdered milk. One thing it won't have is the visual of the white liquid milk flowing into the orange tea under it. Also the version I make with no calorie sweetener is not sugar free cause there's sugar (lactose) in the milk powder. If you want this completely sugar free you might need to find plant based milk powder like coconut or soy. I reckon it would still taste good since the main flavor is the tea. The milk just adds richness and smooth mouth feel.
Thank you Chef John, I love your channel. But honestly i don't see what's the thai style here... In thailand they use their local black tea leaves with evaporated milk and condensed milk, so .... I suppose this should be something really original instead of thai style? To me this looks more like an iced masala tea😅😅😅
One thought, the printed tags on the bags in boling water is not a good idea. There is more or less no ink in the world that can be used in "direct food contact" And the boiling water can dissolve some nasty stuff from the ink.
When he he said a touch of sugar I shoulda known what to expect To John 1 tablespoon of sugars equals 1 tablespoon of sugars A touch of sugar equals all the sugar
Constructive criticism: Please dont put the whole tea bag into the boiling water. The Tea bags have a flavor of their own, so do the paper it comes along with. Also, A cinnamon stick is actually less mild flavoring than ground cinnamon!
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"a touch of sugar" LOL
It's like a "shot" of vodka 😂
"A little bit more olivol"
You are the Josh Gad of how much sugar to add.
it just kept coming!!!!
This has to go into the archive along with the "shot of vodka," "A bit of olive oil," and "A small knob of butter"
Not many people know that the actual Thai Tea only has artificial vanilla and the yellow food coloring.
As a Thai, I thank Chef John for elevating it into something more worthy of all the fame it gets.
Very excited to try this recipe.
Im pretty sure there's more flavoring to Thai tea than just vanilla. Any other Thai will tell you the same
@@dearharuharu118 Honestly not particularly? If you search it up like two people spill the beans that it's just a sorta pre-made tea mix with artificial flavor. The phrase "Cheap and Cheerful" is used as it's not particularly meant to be some bougie gourmet thing.
That is exactly what I found when I Googled it.
It depends on the brand of tea😊
Just remember to remove the labels before dropping the tea in. 😳
I have never heard Chef John praise anything this hard, outside of cayenne.
During this heatwave in the northeast I've been drinking iced tea with lemonade and ice coffee with chocolate, vanilla and cinnamon, this tea blows those away, I've got to try it
Rooibos! South African here, and thanks for giving a shoutout to the literal best tea on earth!
The flavor is incredible, I love a good Rooibos. That said, it's lack of caffeine is disconcerting
My friend from South Africa gave me some rooibos specially grown there. I didn't like rooibos until I had real South African rooibos. It was delicious!
I love it for kombucha (rooibucha), with just one black teabag per batch, to make sure the living things get enough to eat!
“Adds a touch of sugar”
Dumps in half a truck load 😂😂😂
not that I didn't believe you, but I missed that part of the video and had to back it up so I could see the truck load.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with southern sweet tea. Growing up in the south I can assure you that was just a touch of sugar by southern standards. Southern sweet tea honestly shares more in common with syrup than tea.
It's the Gordon Ramsay tablespoon all over again.
😂
@@OmegaGamingNetwork You're not lying. My family's "recipe" is 100% just simple syrup with some teabags simmered in it. 1 cup of sugar and 2-3 tea bags for every cup of water. Simmer. Cool. Serve. With metformin and Ozembic. Preferably fried. LOL
Fun Tip: this tea, strained, and with a bit more heavy cream, makes a KILLER ice cream. I make it every Summer.
Ahhh. Finally another use for that honking brick of tamarind paste sitting in my pantry.
You can make jello with it too
You are so correct that any amount of Thai iced tea is never enough. One of my favorite local places will give you a cup without ice for an extra dollar and it is SO worth it because that's like twice as much tea!
That’s what I do when I order horchata! I buy a huge glass of it as I leave the grocery store and then I put some over ice when I get home. The rest goes in the fridge to stay cold!
Heh, heh… 3:04 love when Chef John does this: “add a little touch of sugar!”
I love chef john, been watching him for years... But that is not a touch of sugar. Came to the comment section and it did not disappoint 😂❤
We all had the exact same reaction lol
It’s not a touch of sugar, but it’s also not too much:)
*I am a fan of
@@Legal_Sweetie333 there’s more than one kind of love
In my experience, with Chef John, sugar touches very hard
I think the "touch" measurement is maybe meant tongue in cheek?
If it has to be strained, I'd just use loose leaf tea
then do that Lisa
Good point.
That's you cooking.
That’s how to get high-quality tea leaves, but my counter just has tea bags.
@@sandrastreifel6452 absolutely.
“If there’s a better beverage to serve with spicy foods, besides beer” is why I love Chef John. His slightly off kilter sense of humor aligns well with mine.
I didn't think that was a joke. A bitter, hoppy IPA goes great with a super spicy Thai curry I used to have that combo a lot
Bravo for making spiced tea without red food dye. Delicious & refreshing without sugar is the best choice.
If you add Horchata to sweetened or unsweetened black iced tea, you get a Mexican style version of this tea. It tastes somewhat similar due to the cinnamon and milk in the Horchata.. I do this at a fast food restaurant called El Pollo Loco, which can be found in the American southwestern states.
There's actually no milk in horchata. It's just water, rice, sugar, almonds, cinnamon, and maybe some vanilla.
Horchata is African... More specifically Nigerian
Sounds Delicious 😋
@@beastmastreakaninjadar6941traditionally maybe not but a lot of places will supplement with dairy now
This looks delicious. I have been using coconut milk instead of milk with mine as well. The only thing I would add is that I would use stevia or monk fruit sweetener and would take off the labels so the inks don’t absorb into the tea . Delicious!!
Thank you for this version…it lends itself to any type of sweetener besides sugar. I love this tea, but being pre-diabetic for years, and recently declared full on diabetic II, I appreciate a recipe that doesn’t use the sweetened condensed milk. I can’t wait to try this with the coconut milk!
I like a few slices of fresh ginger and some hibiscus flowers in my spiced tea.
In addition to cardamom, star anise, and whole cloves, as in this recipe.
Chef John went from showing us a "lighter, less sweet" tea to "I'm going to give you all diabetes." in 3 minutes flat with that little touch of sugar.
Traditional Thai ice tea uses sweetened condensed milk as the sweet, creamy addition!
He must be part southern lol. I can't stand anything more than maybe a half teaspoon of sugar. Unless I'm making the spice tea we call "chai tea" in the west, then I'll add enough jaggery or unrefined brown sugar to balance out the heavier spice flavours
@@BigboiiToneThai tea is extremely sweet, that’s just how it is. Sweeten the tea or the condensed milk either way.
This is such a delight to see here! Thai tea is by far my favorite drink of all time, I have never tried it with coconut milk thank you for the suggestion!
You put the teabag and their labels in the simmering water :O I dunno about that, not worried about the ink and or whatever else?
It’s usually not an issue but I would say just cut off the tag
Chef John , since you are straining the tea anyway.... its probably a really good idea to open the teabags into the hot water so the paper doesnt soak up the best flavors
Why is everyone talking about the sugar when HE COOKED DA TEA PAPER
I agree!
Who wants printer’s inks and dissolved bits of paper in their tea???
The tea bags tags are part of the recipe? 😂
The paper tag adds a nice cardboard impression to the flavor pallet.
🤫The true secret is in the ink ...😉
Add mystery to the preparation!
He only put them in only because they would've caught fire hanging outside the pot
I cringed.
A "little touch" of sugar!? That wasn't a little touch. That was a full GROPE!!! 😂😂
a downright molestation, even. Chef John is claiming this is a less sweet tea and yet when I make sweet iced tea it has about a third of this sugar!
I could drink this stuff all day ❤
I feel like you're trolling people by putting the paper in the water..
Yum! Inky label is my favourite tea as well!😊
When you get it at a restaurant and they charge you $5 for it, it's easy to limit your intake. If I made that at home, I'd drink the whole thing in one sitting. lol And as a diabetic who shouldn't even have one of those ... I'll have to live vicariously just watching this video. ;)
You mean that "touch" of sugar is over your daily intake? 🤣
I've been making agua fresca with Truvia lately & enjoying it, I'm gonna give this recipe a try but I've gotta do the math re: conversion from sugar to Truvia first (and probably reduce further for personal taste ☕)
Use Stevia.
Have you tried making the tea cold brewed? I bet it would work.
The slurp at the end was pure class!
No it isn't
i need this in my life!!!
Did... did he seriously put the whole tea-bag in there, label and all? Absolute madman. Look forward to trying this at some point.
Trying this tomorrow in the 40 degrees Celsius of Cyprus
@massiveattackdrop No frappe?
I luv chai flavored tea, I did not know it is easy to create. Ty
This isn't exactly chai but it's close. This is Thai tea.
Wow.... I'm going to try to make this....
Will this recipe still work if I cut the tags off the tea bags?
Yaaassss, I want one now. I’ve never tried it with coconut milk. Interesting.
Your tamarind syrup made me think of pomegranate molasses, which I really love (and which is great over good vanilla ice cream).
Nice. My wife loves this.
Just here for the people who have never had Southern sweet tea adorably thinking that was a lot of sugar for tea. I mean he put it in the name and here you are, shocked it's got enough sugar to barely count as sweet tea in any self-respecting home with Southern heritage.
I'm never shocked at the actual amount of sugar used, just at his description of "a touch of sugar"!
That's pretty much the amount of sugar I use for a gallon of iced tea, not a glass 😆 ... But yeah, Southern iced tea is very, very sweet. ❤
Explains the size of the average southerner
Yumm! I will make it now! make a video about clear ice, please!
One of my favorites.
Paper straws are *always* a regret
As a dolphin. I agree.
Metal is definitely where it is at
i love how your videos never change even after 10 years. OG viewer
There is such a thing as sweetened condensed coconut milk.
I'll have to give this a try, but find it hard to believe anything could be better than Agua de Jamaica for a hot summer time drink. 😍 I'm surprised Chef John doesn't have a video for it already! (Unless I missed it) 😉👍❤🍸🍻
I’ll hafta try this “sweeten the tea” method with Stevia (while expressing how envious I am of those who can tolerate real sugar and/or sweetened condensed milk)
Teabags with the tags for the extra cardboard kick?😂
he's also squeezing the teabags, to make sure he gets all the bitter dregs in there, though maybe it's hard to notice behind the dump truck of sugar.
My favorite is rosehips and hibiscus 🌺 tea for the thai tea 🧋
Yes. And ginger.
It's fun to play around with spices and ... I don't know if hibiscus is considered a herb or what.
@@lakrids-pibe absolutely 👍 ginger is a very big part of good thai ice tea😋Thank you.
“a little touch of sugar” sir that would put me in the hospital 😂
Thanks for the recipe!
I think that silicone big straws are the best, bc they are bendy and reusable, but still tensile enough to mix with (I mix my coffee with my heat proof silicone bendy boba straw every day! )
I can't abide milky anything in tea, but I love sweet Thia-style iced tea without it.
Me too
P.S. : Maybe substitute the processed sugar for honey? Just an idea 💡.... Peace and Love ❤
Lovely John❤
a classic Chef John touch of sugar :)
Actually the sweetened condensed milk is mixed in with the tea and the stuff they put on top is unsweetened evaporated milk. Also, no one makes it with coconut milk, Chef John. It might taste good so I'll have to try it but as a Thai person I've never seen anyone put coconut milk in it.
I also have a cheat version that I make all the time where you can adjust the sweetener to your taste (and is a bit healthier as well.) You brew the tea as usual (personally I like to let it steep for at least 15 mins.) and use powdered whole milk instead of all the usual liquid milks. Then add sugar or sweetener of your choice to your liking. I use either Stevia or monkfruit sweetener. It tastes exactly like the real thing. You don't need to chill it cause the the milk powder and sweetener will bring down the temp and you can adjust the creaminess to your taste as well by increasing/decreasing the amount of powdered milk.
One thing it won't have is the visual of the white liquid milk flowing into the orange tea under it. Also the version I make with no calorie sweetener is not sugar free cause there's sugar (lactose) in the milk powder. If you want this completely sugar free you might need to find plant based milk powder like coconut or soy. I reckon it would still taste good since the main flavor is the tea. The milk just adds richness and smooth mouth feel.
FINALLY A GOOD RECIPE! AND BY MY FAVORITE YT CHEF NO LESS!
did you really boiled the paper of the tea bags?
He did. He is, after all, the Darth Vader of whether to boil the tea paper.
Anything to substitute for tamarind paste or is it better to leave out.
Most sweet chai tea recipes I can find don't mention tamarind at all, so I think you can safely leave it out.
make sure to cut the tea bag labels off tho, also get some metal straws for your kitchen they're great
Chef John the tea tastes great I set my kitchen on fire please respond
The perfect heat killer for (to) hot food would be the Indian beverage Mango-Lassi.
Great job, chef. I will try this tomorrow for lunch.
My BFF is allergic to dairy. I can't wait to try this with her!
6:34 - Haven't seen those clips in years.
Thank you Chef John, I love your channel. But honestly i don't see what's the thai style here... In thailand they use their local black tea leaves with evaporated milk and condensed milk, so .... I suppose this should be something really original instead of thai style? To me this looks more like an iced masala tea😅😅😅
Will this work with tea bags only
i mean people like tea with sugar
You need vanilla in that case.
What’s a good substitute for coconut milk? Heavy cream?
I would say so.
A lot of Thai restaurants I've gone to use half and half.
My blend of spices I omit the tamarind paste and use a little white pepper and ginger.
That's more like an Indian Chai
if you're concerned about diabetes just swap out the sugar with 1/2 erythritol and 1/2 stevia. I promise you it'll be indistinguishable from sugar.
Almost thai spice sweet jelly tea....😊
Nice drink, I would not have steeped the paint from that tea bags tho😉
One thought, the printed tags on the bags in boling water is not a good idea.
There is more or less no ink in the world that can be used in "direct food contact"
And the boiling water can dissolve some nasty stuff from the ink.
Plastics made from hemp has a half-life half as long as plastics made w petroleum
Pleeeeease can you help me whip up a taro milk tea? I NEED it and WISH it. Thanks in any case!!
I'd remove the strings off of those tea bags, unless you enjoy drinking the dyes that are gonna get leeched off of their tags during boiling.
I'd probably avoid boiling the teabags with the labels though, could be all sorts of dyes in the tags.
There is definitely printer’s inks in those tea tabs! And I bet some of the paper dissolved too!
Why not use loose tea? Its almost always better than tea bags. Its the nature of tea bags and mass production.
What about that touch of teabag paper tip flavor!
That Looks So Good
When he he said a touch of sugar I shoulda known what to expect
To John 1 tablespoon of sugars equals 1 tablespoon of sugars
A touch of sugar equals all the sugar
Can someone tell me the name of the song playing at 4:20? It’s stuck in my head!
The most addictive drink on the planet. I can not drink just one and its not cheep in a Thai restaurant.
yep I agree...best non alcoholic cold drink every...we have a favoriteThai restaurant near Annapolis Md that makes an amazing version.
For the engagement:
Oof the tags in the water triggered me real bad. I can taste them just from watching the video.
This is screaming for a splash of rum...😁
🤭
A little touch of sugar actually means a waterfall of sugar, though.
I used to make Thai tea by the gallon. I'd drink 3 tall glasses and feel full. I also noticed i was gaining weight.
Is Tamicon good enough for using as tamarind paste?
A good tea
If this is touch of Suger....... Oh. My. God
Sounds like John was a customer of Tulan when it was a scary hole-in-the-wall restaurant on 8th between Market and Mission.
wow - takes 1 second to pull of the ink laden paper on tea bags!!
Could you start this as sun tea?
I could understand throwing bags of tea but not with the paper part... xD
Mmm ☕ tea
Awesome recipe chef, please show portillo's chocolate cake recipe please please please please please please please
Then shove it in a milkshake like god intended.
roiboos is the best tea
Constructive criticism: Please dont put the whole tea bag into the boiling water. The Tea bags have a flavor of their own, so do the paper it comes along with. Also, A cinnamon stick is actually less mild flavoring than ground cinnamon!