A bizarre new coffee flavor is predicted to take cafes by storm by 2025 – and you may already have one of the key ingredients stocked in your fridge.
Onion Lattes are the new craze sweeping social media, with dozens of TikTok creators around the world demonstrating how to make this unusual drink by blending scallions into a regular iced latte.
The strange combination was first concocted in Chinese coffee shops and comes from a long line of daring experiments with coffee in the East Asian country.
Adventurous foodies in China have previously created combinations such as soy sauce lattes, oyster coffee and coffee-infused rice.
But this trend extends much further, encompassing a variety of unlikely food combinations enjoyed by people all over the country, and is known as ‘dark cuisine’ – or ‘hei an liao li’.
The term refers to food and drink combinations that may sound strange or even disgusting, but often turn out to be surprisingly tasty.
In this case, spring onions are added to the coffee to balance the bitter taste while providing an extra crunch.
In one TikTok video Posted in May, Australian content creator and coffee enthusiast, @goldenbrown.coffee, shows how to make an onion latte from scratch, which has since been viewed more than a million times.
Onion lattes are the new craze sweeping social media, with dozens of TikTok creators around the world demonstrating how to make this unusual drink by blending scallions into a regular iced latte
In the clip, the content creator explained, “This is a viral drink straight from China. So of course yours has to taste it.’
He starts by slicing the green ends of the fresh spring onion before dropping the slices into an empty glass.
The content creator then uses a masher to mash the ‘juices’ from the chopped spring onion, before filling the glass with regular iced coffee, made from a combination of ice, milk and espresso.
He then ‘garnishes’ the drink with more spring onion before mixing it all together.
The coffee fanatic took a long sip of the brew, grimaced and said, “I can’t even feign any redeeming qualities.” That’s terrible.’
More than 700 people split the responses, with the majority agreeing they would avoid the drink.
One person wrote: ‘No! Let the spring onions stay in the soup..’ while another said: ‘I love coffee. I love green onions. But this just looks wrong.”
A third joked: “You’ll be so popular with coffee breath *and* onion breath!”
This strange combination was first concocted in Chinese coffee shops and comes from a long line of daring experiments with coffee in the East Asian country.
More than 700 people split the responses, with the majority agreeing they would avoid the drink
A fourth joked: “You’re going to need a few mints after you drink this.”
However, a number of people seemed open to trying the unusual concoction, as one wrote: ‘Oh, I have to try this!
Another advised: ‘Try adding garlic, minced meat, chopped lemongrass, coriander roots and chopped celery, while a third said: ‘Have you tried it with diced tomatoes and mashed avocado?’
Meanwhile, a fourth demanded: “I NEED CORIANDER COFFEE.”
It comes after the results of a study revealed different personality traits based on people’s coffee preferences.
Espresso drinkers believe they are good lovers, while black coffee fans claim to be honest, the study found.