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5 - 7 Lipton Yellow Label tea bags
1000 ml of boiling water
1 lemon
2 tablespoons cane sugar or to taste
lots of (fun) ice cubes
In Hong Kong everywhere on the street you can buy freshly made Ice Tea, from a vendor, in the restaurants and at McDonald's Hong Kong. The tea brewed really strong and very sweet with lots of sugar. The fresh slice of lemon makes the tea less strong and with lots of ice it becomes less sweet. So you get a delicious cooling drink on hot days. We make it at home, for Chinese New Year. Very tasty but we use half the sugar and less ice, it's cold in January!
How you make fresh Hong Kong Ice Tea
Remove the wax from the lemon under the hot tap with a brush.
Scrub the lemon until clean.
Cut the lemon into thin slices.
Unwrap the tea bags
Boil water, pour it into a jug.
Dissolve the sugar by stirring.
Hang the tea bags in the jug.
Let the tea brew for 10-15 minutes.
Remove the tea bags when the tea is stong enough for your taste
Add lots of ice to the ice tea.
Put a lemon slice in each glass then pour the ice tea on it.
The cute straws (HEMA) complete the Hong Kong Ice tea.