Zero Chen at The Union Trading Company
“We’ve had our cheese tea-inspired Gun’s & Butter cocktail on the menu for about a year. Cheese tea was already picking up then, but our foreign customers unfamiliar with the beverage, so I wanted to introduce it to them. It’s actually pretty popular with them.
At our bar, we serve quite a lot of foreigners, who are already fans of cheese, so when I was experimenting with a recipe, I definitely went for saltier, more umami flavours with parmesan cheese. And to counter the cheese foam’s fatty texture, I chose a fruity and sour tea for balance.
It was really tricky to make a cheese foam I was happy with. Hey Tea is never going to share how they make it, of course! After three days of trial and error, I learned that you first dissolve salt in the milk, because cheese powder and salt are difficult to blend together in the cream. I don’t add in milk when whipping it either.”
Recipe (click to view)
Gun’s & Butter by Zero Chen
