When you visit Thailand, a beverage you cannot run away from is definitely Thai milk tea. Everywhere you visit, there is a beverage stand selling the national favourite drink Photo Credit: Lung Ngen Coffee FB Famous for earthen pot coffee, Lung …
When you visit Thailand, a beverage you cannot run away from is definitely Thai milk tea. Everywhere you visit, there is a beverage stand selling the national favourite drink
Photo Credit: Lung Ngen Coffee FB
Famous for earthen pot coffee, Lung Ngen was founded by Montri Arjharn in Changmai in 1968 offering coffee made from coffee beans roasted in an earthen pot
Photo Credit: ICONSIAM website
At all Lung Ngen outlets, coffee beans are roasted over charcoal before being pounded to create coffee with a special fragrance. All drinks served at Lung Ngen use water boiled with Pandanus leaves in earthen pots for a mellow yet aromatic flavour
With only 2 outlets in Bangkok; ICON Siam and Siam Paragon, I chanced upon this outlet by pure chance. I was thirsty and attracted to the store by the fragrant smell of the boiling pandan leaves so I decided to get a cup of milk tea. Hidden in a discreet corner in the basement food village of ICON SIAM, you can easily miss out on one of the best milk teas in Bangkok. For those trying to find the store, it is near to the entrance of Dear Tummy supermarket
They do serve a variety of drinks both hot and iced versions but the most popular drinks are the iced milk tea and milk coffee with grass jelly. As you wait for the staff to make your drinks, you can smell the aroma of the pandan water cooking as well as the subtle smell of tea and coffee kept warm in their respective earthen kettle pots
Firstly, the tea is perfectly sweetened without being diabetic-sweet like other milk tea outlets. The tea has an infusion of pandan natural sweetness and aromatic flavour which heightens the flavour of the tea itself. The milk is also extremely creamy and smooth providing a light milky flavour which does not overpower the marriage of the tea and pandan flavour. After drinking many brands in Bangkok, this is now my top Thai milk tea brand in Thailand and it is definitely worth the calories
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