Orchids are my favourite flower. I would have done without blossoms at our wedding if it weren’t for their existence. I love the delicate unique shape, the vivid seamless merge of bright colour, the long uncrowded stems. But I didn’t know you could eat them too.
Though it’s possible that I’m not eating them today either. The menu says it’s hot milk with rosewater and cinnamon; if it were authentic I would imagine it wouldn’t need so many other flavours.
I shouldn’t have ordered it. I spent the last half hour walking here: I’m hot and it’s 37C. But who can resist orchids? Never me.
It comes looking just like a chai latte, a beautiful white froth with a heavy cinnamon coating in a silver metal mug.
Spooning into the foam. It doesn’t just appear to be a chai latte, it also smells and tastes like one too. The cinnamon is very strong, mixed into the milk as well as dusted on. There is no ginger bite like chai though… no rosewater taste or scent that I can detect.
It is quite nice though.
There is a slight extra thickness to the liquid… perhaps that’s the ground orchid? There is no unfamiliar taste though… just sweetened milk and cinnamon…
Tasty enough to be drunk even in this heat. But disappointing… surely orchids should taste like something? Or why use them at all?
Salep
You can drink orchids!
Orchids are my favourite flower. I would have done without blossoms at our wedding if it weren’t for their existence. I love the delicate unique shape, the vivid seamless merge of bright colour, the long uncrowded stems. But I didn’t know you could eat them too.
Though it’s possible that I’m not eating them today either. The menu says it’s hot milk with rosewater and cinnamon; if it were authentic I would imagine it wouldn’t need so many other flavours.
I shouldn’t have ordered it. I spent the last half hour walking here: I’m hot and it’s 37C. But who can resist orchids? Never me.
It comes looking just like a chai latte, a beautiful white froth with a heavy cinnamon coating in a silver metal mug.
Spooning into the foam. It doesn’t just appear to be a chai latte, it also smells and tastes like one too. The cinnamon is very strong, mixed into the milk as well as dusted on. There is no ginger bite like chai though… no rosewater taste or scent that I can detect.
It is quite nice though.
There is a slight extra thickness to the liquid… perhaps that’s the ground orchid? There is no unfamiliar taste though… just sweetened milk and cinnamon…
Tasty enough to be drunk even in this heat. But disappointing… surely orchids should taste like something? Or why use them at all?
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Specifics: Salep from Badde Manors, Glebe