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Apr. 6th, 2020 05:55 pmDue to The Situation(TM), I have been unable to get milk teas*.
This is a bit of a problem. It turns out that 'access to milk teas' is surprisingly load-bearing? Now, some of the things that make it load bearing cannot be replaced-- there's not really a way to replace 'a nice excuse to go for a 40 minute walk, with something to make it more pleasant on the way back,' at least not right now. But 'a form of caffeine that I actively like'? That should be more replaceable.
But now I have fallen down a rabbit hole.
Did you know that pretty much all the of the milk tea places in my city do delivery? Apparently they do! (I'm pretty sure they did this before The Situation, but it wasn't relevant to me before.) However, this option is expensive. The delivery fee is between 1/2-1 milk tea worth of money. And milk teas don't keep for long in the fridge, so it's not like I could order a whole bunch at once.
On a... slightly... more practical note: there is an Australian company that will sell you, the consumer, milk tea flavour powders. They sell them in a whole variety of flavours, pretty much all the flavours you would think of as standard flavours, plus a couple extra. But they only sell the powders in 1kg bags. ...it's still pretty tempting. I'm pretty sure I could get through a 1kg bag of taro flavoured powder, and it'd be a damn sight cheaper than my milk tea habit (even when you ignore the current delivery cost of the latter.)
Or, the most sensible option: thai tea is delicious. Thai tea is also apparently pretty easy to make? I'd thought it involved, like, elaborate combinations of spices and palm sugar. Nope, apparently it's just condensed milk and evaporated milk? Which should hopefully be fairly easy to get my hands on, and not as inherently 'what does this say about me?' than 1kg of taro+coconut flavoured powder.
*By 'milk tea' I mean the flavoured kind, the ones usually served with tapioca pearls. But considering that most of what I like is the flavours, not the pearls, I'm not calling them pearl milk teas.
