🍽️ Milk Tea

Salty milk tea is a daily drink of Mongols, served with fried rice.

Salty Mongolian milk tea is the daily drink of herders on the Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Brick tea is boiled into a strong infusion, strained, then combined with fresh cow or sheep milk, stirred to a boil and lightly salted, sometimes enriched with butter. The brew turns milky with a faint tea tone, balancing tea aroma and milk richness in a warm, savory, non-cloying sip. Herders dip roasted millet into it and accompany it with milk skin, curd cheese and hand-grabbed mutton, turning it into a substantial morning meal. In Gers and tea houses across Hulunbuir, a bowl of hot milk tea is the first gesture of hospitality and the friendliest taste of grassland life for travelers.