04 SEP

Shanghai’s popular ‘cheese tea’ is popping up in more US teahouses — and it’s a refreshing balance of savory and sweet

brew's lee cheese tea

  • Cheese tea, which originated in China, is a drink with a thick, creamy layer of cheese served atop bubble tea.
  • Its popularity spread throughout the rest of Asia.
  • More teahouses in the US, like Brew’s Lee in San Antonio and Tapio in Charleston, began selling cheese tea in the past year. 
  • Different kinds of cheese can be added to complement each drink’s flavor.
  • The cheese is meant to have a subtle taste and balance the sweetness of tea.

The odd combo works much better than it sounds, and there’s a load of flavors to discover.

On a recent humid afternoon, I spent over an hour attempting to find a Shanghai outpost of HeyTea. I visited a coffee shop, a cell phone store, and beauty salon. And after a frustrating 90 minutes, I gave up to eat soup dumplings in another part of the city. But I couldn’t find that venue either. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted two young men carrying HeyTea’s distinct frosted plastic cups, smiling as they sucked down precisely what I was after: cheese tea.

I was on this quest after stumbling upon HeyTea via Instagram days before my trip to China. The local tea brand has catchy packaging, and refreshing-looking drinks, but it was the descriptions that got me—these chilled green- and black tea-based elixirs contained the unlikely companion of cheese blended into a creamy, silky foam cap.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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