Chai Replacement Therapy

I have two entries for this installment and they are both truly replacements.  I am noticing more and more that tea, in general, is a favorite here.  I'm sure this is remnants of the English occupation.  Since I don't drink coffee, despite my many efforts, I have been curious about tea in the past.  I'm thinking that now would be a good time for me to expand my horizons.

There is a restaurant in the Curve called Winter Warmers.  I'm not sure why they are called that unless it is a franchise from a chain that started somewhere that actually has a winter.  Anyway, as we walked by this restaurant one day I looked through the menu they have on display outside.  A drink caught my eye and I put it on my list of things to try.  I tried it this past weekend.  It is a Caramel Tea Latte.

I ordered the butter and chocolate cookies separately.  The drink wasn't too bad...didn't have enough caramel flavor for me.  It also still had the tea bag in the cup.  That wasn't necessarily a bad thing, I just wasn't expecting it.  This restaurant has a bunch of tea lattes but no chai...

Then yesterday (Monday) I found myself needing to kill time while I was in KLCC so I found a Coffee Bean with every intention of getting a chai.  To my utter dismay they were out of chai!  But, this gave me an opportunity to try something different...

This is an English Breakfast Tea Latte.  Very good!  I've been curious about the English Breakfast tea anyway so I figured a good way to try it the first time was in the form of a latte.  Now I think I might have to try it just as a hot tea.  It is in the black tea family just like chai but it is a little stronger.

And as a side note, I tried the green tea latte from Starbucks (I was with someone else or I would never had gone there) and I didn't like it at all.  I'm getting to a place where I like green tea hot but there was something about the latte that I just did not like!

So, there you have it - true replacements for my beloved chai latte.  Sometimes it may be easier to get these than the chai and now I know they are good, or at least decent, replacements.

See you next post!!