Milk Tea 奶茶

There is nothing quite like drinking steaming hot salted milk tea 冷冰冰的清晨喝鹹奶茶很舒服 that I am drinking in the chill of the morning. As I think I’ve mentioned before in this blog, I’m not a morning person 我不是早鳥 and so anything to relieve the strange combination of grogginess and super sharp awareness of the early morning feels really good.

I am drinking the milk tea we got in Inner Mongolia 內蒙古. We had just been kicked out of bed and gotten off the overnight train from our home in Beijing at Hohhot 呼和浩特市 at 5:00 in the morning. Nothing was open. It was cold, very cold. We eventually found a kindly taxi driver 有人带我們去who took us to a Xinjiang 新疆 餐廳(Uighar) restaurant that was open. The Uighar 維族 peoples who are apparently early risers. We went to the restaurant you see in this second photo which served Halal food since the Uighars are Islamic回教徒 .