drank Pandan French Earl Grey by ETTE TEA
1724 tasting notes

I love pandan, so I ordered what I suspect was nearly every tea with pandan that Ette has. There is a layered sweet that I was introduced to when I was living in Australia that was sweet coconut sticky rice on the bottom and green pandan pudding/jelly on the top. It was so good! I found a pandan pudding powder at some random market in San Francisco and have made the sweet at home a few times now. I also have a pandan house plant in my living room! All that pandan love and I still have a hard time picking out the flavor when it is subtle.

When steeped the bergamot comes out super strong. EG all the way, although I’m not sure what makes and EG French. If I’m focusing really hard I can smell a softness behind the berg that is the pandan, but it’s very light. I feel like I get the same thing in flavor. Strong EG, light almost ghost like pandan. I usually like to add creamer to my EGs, but I haven’t found the perfect replacement creamer for my favorite and I’m not willing to ruin another good cup of tea with plastic flavored almond creamer. Luckily the berg isn’t at nuclear level strength. Looking forward to playing with the steeping temps and seeing if I can get more pandan out of this tea!

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Courtney

Are you looking for a vegan/dairy-free creamer?

Martin Bednář

I had to search what pandan is and how it supposed to taste like. Seems like interesting ingredient!

Mastress Alita

Me too, Martin. We have very simple, uncultured palates out here in podunk Idaho.

Dustin

I am, Courtney. Trader Joe’s is having sourcing issues for their soy creamer which was my go to. I think it may have been from Wildwood or Organic Valley because the ingredients are the same and they are also not in stock anywhere. I recently bought eight other non dairy creamers to find the perfect substitute and I hate all of them for various reasons.

Pandan is a very Indonesian type flavor. I think a lot of people are unfamiliar with it.

Courtney

Oh no! I am in Canada, so the options are probably less, but I understand your pain. I generally only use creamer in coffee and a milk substitute in tea, but for creamers I go between Elmhurt Oat Creamer and Califia Farms Unsweetened Better Half. I have also had success with Silk Original Coconut Creamer. It’s entirely possibly you’ve already made your way through these, but I thought I’d comment just in case!

Martin Bednář

I am pretty much sure that Pandan is unfamiliar flavor! I never heard of it and I consider myself quite interested in other cuisines!

I found only one shop in Czech Republic selling it, but pure pandan and pricey!

Dustin

I’ve tried the Califia and Silk, but not the Elmhurt. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it!

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Courtney

Are you looking for a vegan/dairy-free creamer?

Martin Bednář

I had to search what pandan is and how it supposed to taste like. Seems like interesting ingredient!

Mastress Alita

Me too, Martin. We have very simple, uncultured palates out here in podunk Idaho.

Dustin

I am, Courtney. Trader Joe’s is having sourcing issues for their soy creamer which was my go to. I think it may have been from Wildwood or Organic Valley because the ingredients are the same and they are also not in stock anywhere. I recently bought eight other non dairy creamers to find the perfect substitute and I hate all of them for various reasons.

Pandan is a very Indonesian type flavor. I think a lot of people are unfamiliar with it.

Courtney

Oh no! I am in Canada, so the options are probably less, but I understand your pain. I generally only use creamer in coffee and a milk substitute in tea, but for creamers I go between Elmhurt Oat Creamer and Califia Farms Unsweetened Better Half. I have also had success with Silk Original Coconut Creamer. It’s entirely possibly you’ve already made your way through these, but I thought I’d comment just in case!

Martin Bednář

I am pretty much sure that Pandan is unfamiliar flavor! I never heard of it and I consider myself quite interested in other cuisines!

I found only one shop in Czech Republic selling it, but pure pandan and pricey!

Dustin

I’ve tried the Califia and Silk, but not the Elmhurt. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it!

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