Photo 134428232 © Saadon Bin Saad | Dreamstime.com When I first heard the words ‘pulled’ and ‘tea’, I asked myself, “how can you pull tea?”. Teh Tarik, as it's called in Southeast Asia, translates to ‘pulled tea’. The reason why pulled tea is given it’s name is because of how it is made. The ingredients of pulled tea are very simple, consisting of evaporated or condensed milk, water, and black tea dust. Despite having ingredients that you can easily get at a corner store, n

During the summer of 2018, the summer after my freshman year at Lowell, I studied abroad for a month in Shanghai, China. I visited my mom’s hometown in the southern Guangdong (Canton) province 3 times when I was younger, but it was my first time visiting northern China and also my first time traveling without my family at the age of 16. I heard of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) from my first year Japanese class and ended up enrolling in the Chinese Langu