Drink favourites

I thought I would do something a little different today and just share with you some of my favourite hot drinks (the cold rainy weather here has really been fuelling my need for steam)

Left to right: cafe bene sweet potato latte, tetley tea in roobis red berry and cosmo orange cranberry, Mighty leaf Vanilla bean tea.

Here is the tea bag for the vanilla bean tea which is super cute! It's like this sheer fabric which they've serged (sewing term, as in when you hem) the sides of the tea bag which I appreciate. First of all, this tea smells amazing. It smells warm and inviting. I'm a tea fan, but I'm not. I have an obsession with buying tea but then never drinking it, but this tea is so good I've been drinking it for a week straight. Also, this is the only tea (aside from green) that I don't take with a sweetener such as sugar or honey. Its that delicious. This tea steeps for a little longer than most teas, but the thing you have to watch out for is to not leave the tea bag in your travelling coffee mug because it gets really strong and it tastes bitter. 

The next drink is the Cafe Bene sweet potato latte. This is a korean brand. Now let me try and explain to you why in the world sweet potato would ever get made into a drink. Sweet potato is a STAPLE in Korea. Everything is made out of sweet potato. You can get sweet potato coffee, bread, pizza toppings, baked, mashed, spread. You name it. The Korean sweet potato is different from a western sweet potato because as you can see from the colour of this latte, the sweet potato is yellow. It's a taste that you're probably not used to, but it's sweet and creamy and it's especially great during fall and winter. I can't really describe the taste of the sweet potato, it's just a sweet potato. But I urge everyone to try this because it's good. (That day, I spooned a little bit of whipped cream on top, and that why the top is white)

My next drink favourites are the Tetley brands. Tetley is probably the cheapest tea you're going to find in your grocery store. But that's totally okay, I don't think you need to go out and buy yourself a package of $7.00 organic free trade ground picked from the ancient tea plant that only grows in the heart of the forbidden city. I prefer to drink flavoured teas, as some would scold me saying I'm  not a true tea drinker. But I just happen to have no appeal in black teas, chai tea, earl grey etc. What I like about these teas, is that they don't taste like crap. I find with fruit teas, they smell amazing, but once you steep that sucker in hot water, it tastes gross. These teas however, taste like fruit as they're advertised, and I take with 1 teaspoon of sugar and it's great. The one thing I would change about the Tetley teas is the tea bags. They don't come with the string that hangs off the rim of your cup, so when it's done steeping you have to spoon it out, which is a little annoying, but I mean it's like $2.99 so you can't really put that against them.