Get a spot of tea and kick your coffee addiction

Lancelot uses Whittard of Chelsea brand of tea – imported from a supplier in Singapore twice a year – and has a panel of baristas or “tearistas” to make teas, as well as learn and educate consumers about the beverage. Photo: The Star/Raymond Ooi

Before the year comes to an end and fresh new lists of predictions are rolled out, let’s take a look at the tea trend that everyone was prophesying as the “new coffee trend”.

We have all been touched by coffee’s third wave with its latte art, single origin coffees, cold brews, cool coffee machines and even cooler tattoo-engraved baristas. A new cafe seemed to pop up every week in the Klang Valley and beyond during the height of coffee’s relentless march.