The Very Dairy Silver Lining of Colonialism in Hong Kong
A bonus interlude plus a recipe for milk tea butter cookies.
On a narrow, sloping street in Central, Hong Kong’s bustling business district, there is a boxy silver structure marking the presence of Lan Fong Yuen, one of the city’s oldest cha chaan tengs. If you peer inside the steel hut during business hours, you might find a man pouring a stream of hot Ceylon tea through a stained fabric net before he mixes it w…