Cassia Seeds (Roasted)
麦茶とコーヒーのハーフ！？台湾の「あの甘い紅茶」の香ばしさの正体
Description
Savory roasted seeds of the sicklepod plant. A magic spice giving Taiwan's traditional black tea (Guzaowei Hongcha) a deep barley-tea-like richness and coffee-like roasted aroma.
Classification: For Everyone,Whole Spice,Magic Seeds of Taiwan Black Tea
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How to use
Ingredients
- Cassia seeds(Roasted sicklepod seeds)
Instructions
- [Usage Secret]
- [Guzaowei Hongcha (Old-school Taiwan Black Tea)] When boiling Assam tea leaves, add 1-
- tbsp of 'Cassia Seeds'. Completely replicates that 'barley-tea-like savory sweet black tea' drunk at Taiwanese breakfast shops and night markets.
- [Cassia Seed Tea] Boil only Cassia seeds without tea leaves. A caffeine-free detox tea hugely popular among health-conscious Taiwanese youth as a barley tea or coffee substitute.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Intense savoriness like deeply roasted coffee or barley tea
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Strongly brewed barley tea (savoriness sub)
Pairing
Taiwan black tea, Milk tea, Straight as tea
Trivia
[For Everyone] The biggest reason Japanese wonder 'Why does this taste like barley tea?' or 'like coffee' when drinking black tea in Taiwan. In Chinese medicine, believed to 'relieve eye fatigue (Ming Mu)' and 'cure constipation'. A symbolic spice of Taiwan's 'Food as Medicine' to maintain health while drinking deliciously daily.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Just mixing milk and massive sugar into brewed Cassia seed tea makes a zero-caffeine 'Taiwanese-style Supreme Coffee Milk'!
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