Hakka Thunder Tea

I first fell in love with Thunder Tea Rice about 8 years back when I was introduced by hus to mil home cooked Thunder Tea. First try was ok so-so only, but after the 2nd and 3rd try, I fell in love. Had tried to introduced to my family, but none of them likes it. :)
Thunder tea rice is a traditional Hakka dish of rice topped with assorted vegetables and a broth of green tea leaves and herbs.
MIL will stir fried and grind the tea leaves and herbs in a handmade earthen vessel with scored markings on the inside with a guava tree branch as a pestle. It's required a lot of work to be done and the ingredient is hard to fine in Singapore.
Today, hus brought us to jurong to try 阿婆客家擂茶 that he always visit and claims taste better than my MIL's.
The Queue was long and I waited for about 45mins. My guess is because they have just been interviewed by ch8, so many food tester are around.




It's come with about 5 greens and one tea. You can eat it separately.




Or mixed it all up. Which I preferred this way of eating.




Personally I feel that my MIL's thunder tea is better. :) over-rated by my Hus.

Their tea feels more milky, and with too much mints which covered the herbs fragrant. The veg are a bit bland, too less of salt that can't bring up the sweetness in the veg. Anyway, this meant to be healthy food:)


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