2. Tea gets stinky
Although cheese and tea seem as odd together as peanut butter and pickles, the combination is proving so popular in Singapore and China that it’s drawing lines of customers. Cheese tea—which is tea topped with a foam of whipped cream, milk and cream cheese—has earned buzz from Food Network to Food & Wine to Fox News in the past couple months. Recently opened in Mesa, Ariz., Boba Tree specializes in cold tea beverages, particularly peach cheese tea. Priced at $4.99 for a medium and $6.25 for a large, the beverage features a sprinkling of matcha on top. Founded in China, Happy Lemon—which has locations in New York and California—has a Salted Cheese Series of green and black teas topped with salty cheese for $3.
But cheese is also showing up in another unexpected format…