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Lipton Yellow Label Tea ( which is a ceylon ie BLACK tea and a bit more fragrant) is all thats required. You could also use English Breakfast tea, essentially very similar, and for a stronger colour, Assam tea can be added to the brew.

And as my wifes father once owned a dai pa dong out in the NT for many years, and as a cook in the merchant navy, Ly Cha tea is just standard variety black tea using "evaporated " ( non sweetened unlike sweetend condensed ) milk.

Nothing hard about it, its just normal breakfast tea using evaporated milk instead of fresh milk, used purely out of cost and shelf life practicalities.. No other reason.

If you want the the milk tea to have a more redish tinge to the milk, add another table spoon of Assam Black tea to your tea pot, with 2 TBS of English Breakfast tea.

Also, a lot of the dai pai dong places, the very few that still exist, that havent been demolished by the big shopping centre developers, are just using Nestea 3 in 1 instant milk tea, not even bothering with evaporated milk anymore...

Btw the secret tea ingredient, is a teaspoon of Lychee black tea in your brew that contains either 2 tablesppons of English tea, one tablespoon of Assam black tea, and after 5 minutes brewing time, pour a normal cup of tea, and then add the evaporated milk and sugar to taste.