Hong Kong Style Milk Tea - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 ceylon tea bag
boiling water
2 tablespoons sweetened condended milk

Preparation

Bring a kettle of water to a full boil.
Preheat a cup with some of the boiling water; discarding the water after the cup is hot (about 30 seconds).
Place a tea bag in the hot cup and gently pour a cup of boiling water over it.
Steep for 7 minutes (the tea needs to be over-steeped to hold up to the viscosity of the sweetened condensed milk).
Remove the tea bag.
Add two heaping tablespoons of sweetened condensed milk to the tea and mix quickly and continuously until well blended.
Optional: a clean eggshell is sometimes added to the tea while it is steeping to reduce its acidity.