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Hong Kong-style milk tea

Strong black tea filtered for smoothness and combined with evaporated or condensed milk in the cha chaan teng tradition.

Also known asSilk-stocking milk tea

Place associations

Where Hong Kong-style milk tea belongs

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong's official guide presents milk tea as a quintessential cha chaan teng drink within the city's mid-century East-meets-West cafe culture.

Documented from 1950

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