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In Mongolia, they actually boil milk to make tea instead of water. And they put salt in it instead of sugar. It's quite tasty as long as you don't expect it to taste like regular tea.

I've had tea with milk in Russia, but that was in Buryatya, nowhere else.

I've heard something like this: tea itself is not really addictive or bad for you, but adding milk somehow makes it so?

Has anyone else heard this or something similar?

Unfortuntaly (if this is true) I am an Indian chai fanatic now. Before going to India I would never have put sugar or milk in tea, but now it's hard to see the point of black tea...that said I did enjoy a good one the other day.

Tortuga I loved the throwaway terracotta cups too.

(i had some time and found this old thread...)

siberians boil milk and then let the tea seep into that...it turns out not even tasting like tea if you're used to the watery stuff.

but the israelis (at least, the few i know, so this could just be some kind of family oddity or something) squeeze a bunch of citrus fruit and boil that and let the tea seep into that. you'll ask for green tea or something, and twenty minutes later wander into the kitchen where someone will be squeezing oranges...

The Turks drink it without milk put put on overage three cubes of sugar into the tiny tulip-shaped glasses they use.

i dont like tea in my milk...i dont want something thick, I want something hot and soothing to warm my body and ease my sore throat

Milk in tea but
NEVER in coffee.

Milk in tea and always in coffee.

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Originally posted by Kathryn M:
Egyptians drink it with milk

Must be the odd Egyptian. 99% of the country drink tea black and very sweet.

Well, Egyptians do quite often drink tea black and very sweet, but many, way more than 1% anyhow, put milk in it. Its a remnant of the British days as it seems to be in many places.

I like to drink tea with milk and sometimes honey. Ice tea no milk and lots of sugar and lemon. Sweet tea is delicious

I like my tea with milk, but my Papa is English so perhaps that's where I get it.

In Singapore, you can have you cuppa in a coffee shop ( Kopi Tiam) whichever way you may like it.

Teh Si - tea with evaporated milk
Teh O - black tea, tea with only sugar and no milk
Teh - tea with sugar and condensed milk
Teh Kosong Ice - black tea with no milk and sugar adds ice or iced tea with no sugar and milk!

Kosong means empty in Malay language. Teh Kosong means "empty tea" - black tea. No fresh milk is used in Kopi Tiam, I guess this is the way the locals prefer. Sugar, condensed milk or evaporated milk will be added into the tea when the order is placed, no sugar and milk are on the table.

Try them!

Depends entirely on the tea for me. In breakfast tea, some milk, never sugar; in earl grey, never milk or sugar, but possibly a little piece of fresh lemon if available; in green, white or ginger tea, just as it is, thanks; in darjeeling just the tiniest splash of milk - and no sugar; and binna chinni in my chai - unless I really need it of course.

Anything else, as it comes. As long as there is tea of some description, I am happy

No milk or sugar under normal circumstances.

But I'm always open to suggestions when traveling or trying new teas. It's nice to do it the 'local's way'.

I like tea for its flavour. So, no milk for me, thanks. No sugar either.
The same goes for coffee, unless it's espresso which I like with sugar (it's too strong without).

The Turks don't just make tea, they make an art out of it.

They have a special machine that boils water, and this machine heats two pots, one with tea syrup in a kettle, the other with hot water.

You can make the tea as strong as you like.

I recommend sugar with Turkish Tea. It has a bitter side that works well with sugar.

There is research that indicates the proteins in milk bind to the antioxidants in tea and deactivate their healing properties.

Well, to me in Canada, it seems the tradition is milk in tea (but only in black tea! Not green or herbal) - not everyone takes it, but it's always offered.

And tea traditions in the US & Canada are quite different. There's no "hot tea" or "sweet tea" (at least in the wording). There's "tea" (your hot tea) and there's "iced tea" (a sweet concoction by the soft drink companies, that doesn't really taste that much like tea at all... but is qutie delicious)

Ireland: definitely with milk! and most people take a bit of sugar and dip their biscuits in it.

All our new Polish people drink their tea with lemon and sugar no milk- which is quite yum I must say! My fellow waiters introduced me to it last summer.

But it's not as nice with chocolate biscuits!

one other thing! Tea in the States has always been very disappointing for me- very few people have a kettle! and they give you this "hot" water-but it isn't on the boil.

water must be boiling for the best cup of tea!

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one other thing! Tea in the States has always been very disappointing for me- very few people have a kettle! and they give you this "hot" water-but it isn't on the boil.

That's because the burners they use in restaurants are designed to keep coffee warm for weeks. At home I use a kettle, a teapot, and strictly loose tea.