Street vendor in Amritsar makes butter chai, tea lovers share mixed reactions

In the video, the street vendor in Amritsar can be seen adding tea to dry fruits roasted in butter.

Tea is a flavoured blend that can be prepared in various ways depending on one’s personal taste. From the spicy adrak masala chai to the aromatic jasmine tea, there’s a tea for everyone. However, have you ever tried butter tea? A video of a street vendor making this concoction in Amritsar, Punjab, has gone viral on social media, eliciting mixed reactions from tea lovers.

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Amritsar: Street vendor preparing butter chai. (Instagram/@chatore_broothers)

“Tag chai lovers,” reads the caption to the video shared on Instagram. The video opens to show the street vendor boiling milk in a utensil. He then adds some green cardamoms, rose petals, masala, tea leaves, and sugar in i. As the video continues, he crushes dry fruits in a mortar and pestle. The man then takes another utensil, melts butter, and adds dry fruit powder to it. He roasts the mixture for a few seconds before adding tea to it. Towards the end of the clip, he pours the piping hot tea into a cup and serves it to his customer.

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“Don’t understand the criticism in the comment section. He added dry fruits and rose petals to the tea, these ingredients are common in Kashmiri chai. Although the addition of butter could be new? But overall looks good to me,” posted an individual.

Another added, “Kya bana diya bhai aapne [What have you made brother].”

“RIP chai,” expressed a third.

A fourth commented, “Who adds butter to chai?”

“I am hurt as a chai lover,” shared a fifth.

A sixth simply wrote, “Moye Moye.”

“Chai hai ya dry fruit shake [Is it tea or dry fruit shake]?” chimed in a seventh.

What are your thoughts on this? Have you ever had butter chai?