Milk tea "Chai" with a spicy flavor. Here are five "instant chai" that you can easily enjoy at home.

◆ Starbucks Via Tea Essence Chai
Stick powder that you can enjoy Starbucks "chai tea latte" at home. Finely ground black tea leaves are blended so that you can feel the flavor of black tea. The price is 650 yen (excluding tax) for 5 bottles.


Simply dissolve the powder in 180 ml of milk or hot water to make it taste like chai made at the store. After the taste of tea leaves, the spicy scent disappears. I tried milk and hot water respectively, but if you want to enjoy the richness, it is recommended to make it with milk.


◆ KALDI Original Instant Chai
A powdered instant chai with a masala flavor mixed with 8 kinds of spices (cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, black pepper, mace, cloves, nutmeg, chenpi). One bag is for about 6 to 7 cups. The price is 378 yen (tax included).


Dissolve 3 heaps of teaspoon in 150 ml of hot water. A mellow sweetness that wraps the spices. I was impressed by the fact that you can enjoy the richness of milk tea even though it was made with hot water. It is also ◎ that you can adjust the density.


◆ Boss Latte Base Chai Tea Latte
Concentrated type beverage using tea leaves of Indian black tea. The flavors derived from cardamom, ginger and nutmeg express the scent of chai. Contains 490 ml, and the estimated price is 278 yen (excluding tax).


The bottle has a scale for one cup, so use this as a guide to make latte base: milk = 1: 3. Rich spice flavor that is comparable to plenty of milk. A gentle stimulus strokes the tongue. It has a strong sweetness and a strong overall taste.


◆ MUJI Masala Chai to taste with your favorite strength
Powder type finished by combining milk with tea and spices. Pour 140 ml of hot water into 17 g (4 and a half teaspoon) and mix well. One bag is for about 7 cups. The price is 350 yen (tax included).


Complex taste with cloves, cinnamon, cardamom powder, ginger extract powder, etc. You will be healed by the sweet scent that rises. MUJI Chai is also available as "Louis Boss Ginger Chai", so check it out as well.


◆ Dean & DeLuca Cordial Syrup Sweetly Spiced Chai
Chai syrup with a well-balanced blend of 7 types of spices. Add milk with a 6-fold dilution as a guide. It contains 488 ml and the price is 1,600 yen (excluding tax).


A pleasant scent that goes through your nose. The spicy sweetness gradually spreads, leaving an elegant finish. The price is high, but if you dilute it, you can enjoy it a lot, so I think the cost performance is not bad.


All of them are easy to make, but the taste is authentic. You can enjoy your favorite arrangement by using soy milk instead of milk, or by sprinkling the concentrated type on ice cream or yogurt. Why don't you feel like a cafe at home?