A cup of tea in Thailand

[dirtydog]

I think we can all agree that liptons yellow label tea is the absolute pits, maybe if you stuck a couple of teabags in the mug you may get something that tastes like tea.

PG tips and the other English ones seem to have hit the 400baht for a packet of 60 or is it 80?

Luckily they just started selling this Pride of Ceylon tea in Pattaya and Jomtien, pretty damn good and about 160 baht for a box of 100 so a lot cheaper than poxy liptons.

[Propagator]

PG tips and the other English ones seem to have hit the 400baht for a packet of 60 or is it 80?

Ouch - that hurts - hope bkkandrew don't read this.

[Rural Surin]

I'm rather a coffee person...but there is times when a cuppa hits the spot. Good quality tea! Be it English or the excellent teas that come out of China/Hong Kong/Taiwan. South Asians teas are preferable to some {aromatic, not harsh, etc}. I really enyjoy good solid Chinese teas.

[DrAndy]

PG tips and the other English ones seem to have hit the 400baht for a packet of 60 or is it 80?

Ouch - that hurts - hope bkkandrew don't read this.

I don't think they sell the crap in the UK, so no proce comparison possible

I bring a couple of boxes of Twinings "Breakfast" with me. You can buy it here but at extortionate prices (due to taxes?)

Ceylon tea is often excellent. I will look out for it

[mediamanbkk]

I use Tesco's own brand in boxes of 100, they make a pretty good cup of tea. Look for the box with the picture of a Rich Tea biscuit on it (approx 140 baht)

[Nawty]

Grow your own....I will be.

Employ some little peanut sellin Paki's to pick it maybe.

[Rural Surin]

Looking for tryely good tea growing know-how? Go visit Taiwan, where tea is celebrated!!! You can have your Paki tea....

[melvbot]

We get Tesco's own brand that are imported from the UK, theyre in a brown looking recycled box with a green tea leaf on the front, round tea bags and foil packed, they beat any of the other crap Tesco/Lipton ones hands down even though the expiry date is Nov 2008

[Ghandi]

We get Tesco's own brand that are imported from the UK, theyre in a brown looking recycled box with a green tea leaf on the front, round tea bags and foil packed, they beat any of the other crap Tesco/Lipton ones hands down even though the expiry date is Nov 2008

Sure never saw those for sale in Thailand

[melvbot]

Sure never saw those for sale in Thailand

We must be special then, theyve ran out and restocked a few times already.

[benbaaa]

I get Dilmah loose leaf from the supermarket up here, a lot cheaper than those dainty, world-destroying, individually wrapped tea bags.

[benbaaa]

I get Dilmah loose leaf from the supermarket up here, a lot cheaper than those dainty, world-destroying, individually wrapped tea bags.

Yeah, but the best bit about loose leaf tea is you get to buy and play with a tea-strainer. A whole new little ritual, it's great, you should try it.

[EmperorTud]

I bring back Tetley's English Breakfast from Australia.

[good2bhappy]

In Minburi market you can buy Indian tea

[Thetyim]

I use Tesco's own brand in boxes of 100, they make a pretty good cup of tea. Look for the box with the picture of a Rich Tea biscuit on it (approx 140 baht)

Is this new?
I tried the Tesco tea in a red & white packet but didn't like it.

Marmite gave me some Tesco Premium Teabags to try and I'm hooked on them now.
If the "rich tea " packets are the same as Tesco Premium then I will be well happy

[lom]

I get Dilmah loose leaf from the supermarket up here, a lot cheaper than those dainty, world-destroying, individually wrapped tea bags.

I sense a connoisseur here. And no milk, right?

[good2bhappy]

In Minburi market you can buy Indian tea

Brooke Bond red label

[Norton]

Marmite gave me some Tesco Premium Teabags to try and I'm hooked on them now.

Whatever he says! The best tea I've had in Thailand comes from his kitchen. Being a merkin, have no clue what the brand was but well worth the 10 hour drive.

[NickA]

I used to but this Stassen ceylon tea from Makro



About 130 baht for 100 bags or something like that.

They do other speciality teas as well.

[Thetyim]

^ ^
That was Tetleys but these Tesco Premium are even better.

Whilst on the subject of tea, there is no best brand
The trick is to find the tea which tastes best with your water.

[NickA]

The trick is to find the tea which tastes best with your water.

That's OK, but I think I'll continue to use water from the tap

[phuketbound]

I'm not funny on ceylon tea..that isn't a herbal tea is it?

I like Earl Grey the best. Luckily, I can find some of that over here, also imported from England.

[Red dragon]

I would agree that Liptons tea bags are shit, but have any of you tried Lipton's 3 in 1 sachets? the vanilla flavoured tea is fucking immense!!

[DrAndy]

I'm not funny on ceylon tea..that isn't a herbal tea is it?

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you are obviously a tea expert

[phuketbound]

I'm not funny on ceylon tea..that isn't a herbal tea is it?

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you are obviously a tea expert

Well I'd consider myself somewhat of a 'tea connaisseur' actually.

I found out that celyon tea is a black tea grown mostly in Sri Lanka.