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Laphet Yay

Name: Laphet Yay
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Myanmar
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Black tea leaves; 300ml Water; 3 tbsp Sweetened condensed milk; 100ml Milk

Dessert

⏱ 10 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Strong tea with plenty of condensed milk — the sweet milk tea of Myanmar's teashops.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Laphet yay means 'tea water' in Burmese: strong brewed tea with condensed and evaporated milk. Burmese towns are full of teashops (laphet yay sai), where people gather from early morning to enjoy tea with snacks.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Yangon street teashop, people sit on tiny low stools as steaming cups of sweet milk tea fill the tables.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Black tea leaves 2 tbsp
Water 300ml
Sweetened condensed milk 3 tbsp
Milk 100ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring water to a boil, add the tea leaves, and simmer on low for 3 minutes.
Strain.
Put condensed milk in the cups.
Pour in warm milk and the tea.
Stir well and drink.

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