Thai Iced Tea Recipe ชาเย็น - Hot Thai Kitchen! 

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The real, traditional Thai tea is actually Ceylon tea, which can give a reddish-brown color when brewed properly. Since Ceylon tea are quite expensive, people started substituting it with cheaper black tea and added red food coloring. I'd recommend brewing Thai tea with good quality Ceylon, it makes a huge difference.

It's always the season for thai tea, no matter how cold the weather is.

my favorite drink in the whole world. It's addicting. thank you so much for your videos on Thai food it's very helpful also I'm very happy to see that you have found success on RU-vid with your book opening and your Teespring campaign keep up the good work

That's it??? I thought what sorcery was used for this. Now I can make this all the time at home. Hehe.

Yes, just had one tonight at the Thai restaurant and never really thought I could make it myself!!! Can’t wait to try this! Thank you very much for posting! A few days later I tried, it is almost like at the restaurant! Thank you.

I just love all your videos. You really simplify what feels like uber exotic and undoubtedly impossible to prepare. Many thanks!

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Thank you for not throwing a fake / incomplete recipe! It means a lot when we make it and it comes out perfect! 😍😘

Thank you so much for this . I used to drink these all the time and never knew how to make them . So simple so delicious and refreshing. Thanks again

I had a thia tea with some curry here the other day at a local shop. Really liked it. So thanks for showing how to make it. Now my favorte thing to order.

I just purchased this tea from Amazon...so excited to have Thai tea whenever I want it! One of my favorite drinks besides matcha, water and iced coffee

I need to stop binging your videos! You make me crave so many delicious Thai foods and desserts everyday!!! ❤️

I love to come back to this videos and see your improvement, great job Pailin

I don't usually have sweetened condensed milk or evaporated milk on hand but I make this all the time using just tea leaves, water, sugar and whole milk. Only equipment you need is cheesecloth because like Pai said there's a lot of small grounds that could get into the final product. I boil the tea on the stove with as little water as possible to extract concentrated tea flavor, strain it through twice-folded cheesecloth directly into the serving glass. While the tea's still hot, add sugar or sugar substitute, pour cold whole milk in, stir and add ice. I swear it tastes just like the real thing.

I am totally gonna try this!! Thank you for sharing the recipe..

I love Thai Iced tea, everytime we go to thai restaurants that's the first thing I always get. Now I know how to do it thanks for that. Then i didn't realize that we have a Thai tea that we bought when me and my husband went to Thailand few years ago...I'm just so happy right now. More power! And looking forward for more recipes.

Always love myself some Thai Iced Tea. Usually every week I'll fill a pitcher of warm water, and tea in a strainer, then when it's done I'll leave it in the fridge, where I also keep a can of condensed milk with saran wrap and an elastic on top to cover it after opening. All that's left is to add salt and sugar. Makes me happy every morning!

Love my cha yen, Thai tea, I brew it with the coffee maker, works real well.

Personality plus...great recipes, accomplished cook. Great channel.

Hello, Pailin. I'm not sure whether I mentioned that my wife ancestors are from Korat province, but one of her paternal grandfather came from the north. The Northern Thailand is where majority of Cha/Tea Thai plants are grown. The story was told that the Chinese merchants in Bangkok wanted to find a cheap way of increasing the hue of the tea without using the natural ingredients, so they added the food colors to the low grade tea bulks for the vendors. One of the original favoring and coloring ingredient, that gave the orange to red hue, came from safflower (dok kam-phoy) or saffron. Saffron is imported at the time and mainly for the royal court. The hue intensity from the safflower is difficult to achieve and is the last ingredient to be added to the final drink beside the cost of additional ingredient. We do homemade Thai Tea/Cha Thai at home by a gallon each time. We find it to be refreshing and healthier than mass produced Thai Tea with added for colors. We add the dried safflower either from Thailand or California, whichever we can acquire in bulk. But mostly we purchasing the dried safflowers from Thailand. This is our natural Thai Tea ingredients:1. Black Thai TeaThese following ingredients are to be added depending on personal preferences to the bulk tea,2. Grounded Cardamom3. Grounded Tamarind (your choice)4. Grounded Anise 5. Vanilla Bean Powder (or Vanilla Extract to be added after boiling/soaking)6. Dried Safflower or grounded (to be added after final solution is cooled down at the desired coloring hue)I preferred my Thai Tea without milk or black with cane sugar (Cha Daam Yen). We would add the cardamom, anise, tamarind, and vanilla during the boiling depending on the aroma and taste, then we would allow the hot solution to soak and to cool down before pouring into the glass jug container. Each person would adding into their tall glass cane sugar, dairy milk(S), and or coconut milk depending on their preferences.

BTW, if you use a paper filter, thoroughly rinse it with boiling water beforehand. Almost every paper filter brand has lots of crappy tasting residue.

A friend turned me on to Thai iced tea and it's so good and refreshing. I'm lucky enough to have a friend that grew up on a farm in Thailand. She makes the most amazing fried rice.

I have yerba mate chai, and what I did was the same steps just replaced the condensed/evaporated milk with almond milk and with from my estimation about a tea spoon or so of sugar and I found it to be pretty good.

:O My mum always makes this in summer, its amazing!

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Best cooking channel on RU-vid. Not only do we learn recipes but we also learn interesting stuff about the culture

Coming across Pai's kitchen for first time. Great show and easy to understand. I think it's her underlying passion to cook! And must say that's a pretty Thai! Compliments

Thank you , great info , bring back my memories from phi phi islands !!!! You got very beautiful smile that makes the video 100 x better. Very positive.

You are amazing , I love watching your videos, keep them coming! !

Looooooove Thai iced tea, but after watching the whole recipe just realized it's not quite healthy...but still will get from time to time as a delicious treat!

I love thai food & I'm so glad to have landed upon your page!!! You are a natural at expressing your love for food. Subscribed!

I just subscribed because you make a video so clear and easy to understand and precise the recipe just what people needs, thanks gor this video!

please do green thai iced tea.. tq💋

I know how to make Thai iced tea now after watching your video. And the salt really does make a difference!

I love this!

Thank you for this! The package tells you to use a ridiculous ratio of tea to water (only 2tsp per cup) but your measurements make a better-tasting drink to me.

So love your recipes they are all true and very easy to follow. 👍👍👍

Hi pailin😍 i love all your videos you inspired me ...i love cooking also and i love thai foods. My kids love pad thai noodles 😊 we always watch your videos so i decided to create my on videos for cooking...to share all my recipes coz cooking is so much fun and stress relief for all moms..hopefully my viewers growing and enjoying all my videos...thank you pailin for inspired me😊

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I did it. It tasted good. Thank you so much 😊

I can't wait to try this!

You are BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks for the recipe

Made Thai coffee yesterday and Thai tea today. Wife and i both like the coffee best.

I just purchased the exact same Thai tea & can't wait to try this, got the Magnolia sweetened condensed milk as well

hai pailin, can u share the iced green milktea recipe using the same tea brand? thanks..

Love this video,Thank you.

THANK U so so much for this video!!! I couldn't figure out why mine wasn't as good as the restaurants so I never used my Thai tea mix!! I'll use this recipe instead of buying it from the restaurants now 😋

I've just become a bit obsessed with the Thai iced tea from Chatime, I'm looking forward to making my own!

I love thai food and thai iced tea so good

your videos are so great. thanks for sharing.

This makes me want to take my shirt of and dive in this iced tea!

Hello Pailin, what is the best way that you do to in sure freshness in your Thai Tea once you open the bag? I also enjoy your videos, thank you very much.

Delicious! Thx for sharing :)

Just made this and recipe is just like Thai Restaurants !!! Delicious !

I love her. Give this woman a show on Food network.

Hi Pailin, Can I make the tea in advance then freeze it until I need it? Thank you for the recipe!

try recepie and loved it! have it all the time

Less sweet always healthier! 👌❤️

Appreciate the info on Thai Tea with the orange dye & artificial flavoring added in. TY!

Thanks for your easy to follow instructions.

very delicious Thai tea pailin's chef

Love your thai tea recipe. Where can I find your cloth coffee filter bag? I’ve been trying to find it online but I don’t seem to be having any luck. Your link to your kitchen equipment only has the cloth coffee filter that is attached to a metal holder which I’m not interested in. Any help would be appreciated thank you

Thank you for sharing with us 💕

Tried it! This is amazing!

i'm gonna try this one now.

Great recipe...❤️

I went to Thailand a week ago, and I am craving this drink! I think I drank this and pinkmilk during my entire stay in Thailand!

OMG yaaaaasss. I was scouring the net for a Thai tea recipe to replicate the complex flavour profile I get at good Thai tea vendors in Thailand... tried extra vanilla extract, even a toasted cardamom pod, different types of sugars.... but apparently it's the PINCH OF SALT that I was missing!!!!!!!!!! Kop khun kha chef! 🙏

Although I'm London/Irish I cannot stand traditional, hot tea & milk, yuk ! But Thai Iced tea, thats a different matter. Gonna have to try & make some today b4 the wife gets home 555

MY FAVORITE THAI ICE TEA

Oh, how I had missed you! After 7 years, I finally remembered the name of this treasure!

I loveeeee Thai Iced Tea but unfortunately Thai Tea Leaves are not common in the Philippines so what I did was to use the only tea available at hand which is Earl Grey Tea and added the left over sauce of my fruit salad from New Year's Eve. (it has the same ingredient as showed here) and it tasted real good! Now heating up another batch for diner tonight with your Green Curry and Pad Thai recipe!!!! Thank u!!!

wowww.. i like tea... so good..

Hi love all of your recipes.. they are easy to follow. Would love u could show us kuay teow gai recipe.

i'm gonna be mixing one tomorrow 😊

Thanks I will try 😋😋

Thai ice tea is my favorite. I make a concentrated tea and leave it in my refrigerator so I can have it anytime

Tfs! I love thai tea, its yummy

Had Thai Tea. I was surprised I liked it cause I'm really funny but it was good. We had international day at my kids school and ppl from from different parts of the world would pick a dish. That kind of opened me up to trying different things

Idk if its just a false memory but i feel like when I was in thailand, it had a slight taste of rose water. Is that possible?

Yum, my next favorite, my friend told me to add a squeeze of lime juice, oh my that's so refreshing. Btw, love love your tiny le creuset

Where in Vancouver can you buy thai tea? would T&T carry it?

Hi Pailin , can you please do a video on boba or the pearls and jellies that can be found in Thai drinks..thanks in advance

I alway use 4 tbsp of Thai tea leaves to 1 cup water and it seems a bit too mellow . Thai tea is one of my favorite teas ever.

Hai pailin, i saw some of the thai tea maker use some powder, i'm curious, is it milk powder (the usual milk powder that we drink from the market) or is it creamer?

hai Pailin, can u share the receipe thai tea, i looked for in hot-thai-kitchen, but not find yet. Tks Qifty

how long should I brew the tea mix for thai green tea to get nice color and flavor?

hello! wondering if you can make an updated video of this? also would you recommend making thai iced tea cold brewed?

Looks refreshing.

Go with Wang Derm. A bit pricey but it's good quality. They have both loose leaf as well as the easy tea bags. Both are great. You can use the sock for loose leaf. But a French press or Japanese teapot works too. Also I suggest you to chill the tea first in the fridge. I don't like Thai iced tea all diluted. I also use Equal instead of sugar. And I personally use half and half most of the time. Comes out great.

I bought the exact same brand of Thai Tea Mix that you used but the color it produced was not the same. Is it possibly because the amount of tea and water I measure was not right?

It's my favorite drink

Thank you for the recipe, and by the way you are very pretty!

If i want to make a jug that consist of 5 to 6 cups, do you suggest I just amplify the measurement or make one by one?

Great For Honest Review 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I am Indian and since I have tasted Thai tea m kinda addicted to it

The point is to have a strong tea and that's why it's also very sweet. To have a strong tea, cheap tea is needed (broken leaves).

Can you use any black teas? I want to avid using Thai tea bags due to the color

Love your presentation style. Careful the double dip teaspoon 5555