When the month began I had neither a lime tea nor a mango tea to fulfill the next prompt. Then a neighbor offered me a box of this tea because the shop where he works has decided not to carry it. I initially turned it down because I don’t like spicy tea, but decided to give it a try and share the rest.
I drank very little of it because I didn’t want to get hyped up by the rhodiola root. The aroma is sooooo fruity – all mango! The taste is what I expected more or less – so much ginger heat, with chili pepper heat right on its heels. I did one or two sips hot and flash chilled the rest because it is miserably hot and humid, and if the mango was the lead flavor I would have loved this. Instead, it was a cold sip followed by unwanted hot spices. Down the drain it went, but chili chai lovers will probably like it. I tasted no lime, but I didn’t take the time to try.
