Lemon Tea No lemon chain tea restaurant replaces fresh lemons with lemon granules
Lemon Tea No lemon chain tea restaurant replaces fresh lemons with lemon granules
Recently, some netizens found that the lemon tea in the tea restaurant of a chain restaurant group no longer contains fresh lemon slices. It was suspected that it was brewed with lemon granules, and it tasted strange. As soon as the post came out, many netizens commented. Many people criticized the restaurant for cutting corners and cutting corners, which also destroyed the traditional flavor of lemon tea, a Hong Kong-style drink.
Lemon Tea No Lemon Netizens: I don’t know how to drink
In the Facebook group “Tseung Kwan O Home”, some neighbors expressed their feelings recently, saying that it seems that more and more tea restaurants’ lemon tea and lemon water are no longer attached with fresh lemon slices, but replaced by unknown granules. Many netizens have similar experiences, and even pointed out that a restaurant under a catering group has given up serving lemon slices for a while, and has switched to lemon juice or manual scooping. Most netizens also pointed out that the taste is not as good as the traditional lemon slices. The sour taste is not very natural, and he bluntly said “I don’t know what to drink”, and criticized this lemon tea and lemon water as quite unpleasant to drink.
Hong Kong-style lemon tea and lemon water are definitely the classics of tea restaurants. (Pic: Openrice)
Hong Kong-style lemon tea and lemon water are definitely the classics of tea restaurants. (Pic: Openrice)
Some netizens found that there is a phenomenon that lemon tea and lemon water in restaurants are made with granules.
Netizens seem to criticize the restaurant’s practices one-sidedly.
High prices suspect restaurants switch to granules to save costs
Inflation is becoming more and more serious, prices continue to be high, and the catering industry is doing everything possible to save costs. Take lemon tea and lemon water as an example. Some people in the industry pointed out that the original wholesale price of lemons was about 3 to 4 yuan a piece. In fact, in the early years, some netizens discovered that most of the lemon slices in tea restaurants are sliced and packaged, and they are willing to use them. It is rare to buy the original fresh lemon sliced by itself. This time, netizens found that some restaurants have switched to the granules processed by the central factory, which I believe can further reduce the cost. However, this approach not only makes the taste distorted, but also loses the tradition of Hong Kong-style lemon tea and lemon juice “Du Lemon”, which seems to be acceptable to not many diners.
The restaurant mentioned by netizens claims to use cold-pressing technology to extract lemon juice. (Pic: Openrice)
The actions of the diners themselves to drink the lemon can be regarded as the soul of Hong Kong-style lemon tea. (Pic: Openrice)
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