 Hello everyone this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. On my trip to Bangladesh in 2017 what I noticed that there are roadside tea stalls everywhere. These tea stalls are placed to hang out and to socialize for the locals. Foreigners are treated with warm and welcoming hospitality and even a stranger could offer you a cup of tea in one of these tea stalls. Tea is served in small glass cups or mugs. The secret is in the thick cow milk that has been boiled to concentrate, strong black tea and lots of sugar. After coming back to Canada what I missed about Bangladesh is a cup of tea from the roadside tea stall. Since then I've been trying to replicate this cup of tea in Canada and I believe I have come up very close although this is not going to be perfect but you know what I'm going to show you today how to make this cup of tea anywhere in the world. You don't have to go to Bangladesh or you don't have to go to a roadside tea stall and the process I'm going to show you will give you a very close taste although it's not going to be 100% like you know one of those cup of teas in Bangladesh roadside tea stall but you'll get very close and that is what I'm going to show you today in this video. The ingredients you need the first thing tea and milk or creamer and then sugar. So you're not going to get boiled thick milk in you know other country so what you can do you can replace it with a condensed milk and any kind of condensed milk should do the job and if you don't have condensed milk or if you don't want to use that then you can also use you know coffee creamer but condensed milk would bring more color and or more flavor out of the tea and it would taste better too. So you're going to take water it has to be cold water so we'll take a cold water so try to get very cold water that will bring you more flavor and taste so we're going to you know fill this up a little bit more than one cup if you're making one cup of tea so here we have more than a one cup water and then in order to get the tea if you're using a regular tea bag for example this is just a regular you know strength then you need actually two teabags one teabag is not going to do the job so you need two teabags but you're going to see some teas are like you know they're bold or extra strong so if you have that type of tea then you can use one and a half teabag so what I'm going to do I'll just show you how much you know one and a half teabag in the tablespoon just to you know give you an idea so I'll just you know open this up okay so looks like two teabags is very close to one tablespoon so if you don't have you know teabag you can use also loose tea but it should be like you know just very close to one tablespoon but if you're using like you know strong tea or bold tea then make it about 75% full of one tablespoon so this is what it is going to be a tea and then I'm going to just hold on to it and then I'm going to start boiling the water so here's the water and then start boiling it and while the water is boiling we're going to take if you're using condensed milk then we'll just you know start with let's say one teaspoon of condensed milk first and then if we need we can add more sugar so these cubes are actually one spoon or one teaspoon or four gram so we're going to just you know start with one teaspoon of condensed milk and then look at the color of the tea which will tell us like you know how is it whether this is good or bad I'm just boiling the tea here you can actually cover the water to make it faster so let's you know wait for a few seconds and then once you know the water is boiling we'll just put our tea in the pot you can see that water is boiling now we're just going to wait a few more seconds we can see that you know it's almost very close to a full boil so just wait a couple or five ten seconds then we'll put the tea in the water this should be good enough so right now I'm going to put the tea in the water here you go we're going to let it boil for about three to five minutes so I'm going to just shake it a little bit and then I'm just going to cover it and then wait about three minutes or a little bit more than three minutes we are close to three minutes I'm going to just remove the lid and you can see that it's boiling in full strength so what I can do I can just you know turn off the stove and let it sit there for about a minute or so so I'm going to pour the tea in the cup you can use a filter if you're using a loose tea but if you're using you know tea bag then you don't actually need to filter I'm just you know using a filter because I took off the the tea from the tea bag so I'm going to just you know pour the tea here and you can see that the tea has evaporated so we have lesser tea than what the amount of water we put in so it looks like I can put in the whole thing and we're going to just put it aside okay so now in order to put milk we're going to start with one teaspoon and see how it looks so we're going to just you know take one teaspoon of condensed milk from here so this is kind of you know very close to one teaspoon and let's see how the color comes comes out so let me just push this over I can see the car is bringing you know the color and let's just wait a little bit we might need a little bit more milk because this kind of looks like a little bit dark so I'm going to just you know take slightly more condensed milk which is about half teaspoon or lesser than half teaspoon let me just taste it a little bit so in terms of you know the color and the milk combination this just looks fine so I'm going to just you know leave this here and if you wish then you can add more sugar if you don't want you don't have to so I'm going to just you know get one cube of sugar so this is a very basic tea I have seen in Bangladesh that you know some of the places or some of the roadside tea stalls they add you know some spices which could be a ginger or other spices to you know make it unique or to make different types of tea but this is a basic simple tea and let me just taste it right now I'm very pleased with what I made you can see that you know it has a golden crispy color and this is the kind of color you're going to get you know if you buy tea from a roadside Bangladeshi tea stall and it's a very you know it's a bold cup of tea so it's not like you know light tea so this has lots of you know flavor and taste because of the amount of tea we put in and that's what they do in Bangladesh they put in like you know lots of strong black tea with you know thick milk or condensed milk so this process I just showed you the process I just showed you this is like you know very close to the tea you're going to taste our experience in a roadside tea stall in Bangladesh so just to wrap up everything you need two bags of tea if you're using like you know regular tea but if you're using a tea bag which has bold or you know strong tea then you can use one and a half and then in terms of condensed milk you can try close to one teaspoon or 75% of one teaspoon or if you don't have condensed milk or if you don't want condensed milk then you can even use coffee creamer but condensed milk definitely is going to bring up more better color and flavor and then you can add more sugar but you know this has a very aromatic smell which I can smell and it has a very like you know bold strong taste but you know it doesn't make your tongue bitter or it doesn't feel anything that you know you don't want to drink because if you drink these once you just want to drink more and more and that's what happens to Bangladesh because you know people once people go to the roadside tea stall actually they go to several times a day because that's where you know people gather and socialize and you know have a chit chat and everything so if you go to Bangladesh definitely don't forget to visit a roadside tea stall and you can try like you know several because most likely your taste is going to you know differ slightly from depending on where you go and that's one of the unique things about Bangladesh the roadside tea stall and the hospitality of the people thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you