- "Each sip is gentle and calmin', but to be honest, the pleasant aroma waftin' up from the mug is almost enough to give me a much-needed moment of peace before I dive back into the hustle and bustle of a busy dinner service."
- ―Strono Tuggs
Bantha Chai was a tea beverage created on Batuu by the Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs. He found it more relaxing and calming to drink than the bitter black caf that he usually drank on the job. His beverage combined hot tea, local spices, and fresh blue milk from Bubo Wamba's Milk Stand. The resulting beverage was blue in hue and rich in texture, with mellow flavors and a pleasant aroma. Tuggs included his recipe for the beverage in his The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook,[1] which was published in 34 ABY.[2] He presumed that the reader would not have a bantha available and suggested plant-based milk as a possible substitution.[1]
Behind the scenes
- "For Galaxy's Edge, the strangest ingredient perhaps is a tea made out of blue butterfly pea flowers. It gives this really gorgeous blue color without the need for any additional food coloring."
- ―Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Bantha Chai was introduced in the recipe book authored by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Marc Sumerak with photography by Ted Thomas, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, which was released in 2019. The out-of-universe recipe for Bantha Chai uses rice milk or the reader's choice of milk, arrowroot powder, blue butterfly pea tea, ginger root, cardamom, mace, and sugar.[1] Cassel found that the blue butterfly pea tea used in the recipe was the most unique of the ingredients called for in the cookbook.[4]
Sources
- Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook (First mentioned)
Prepare a Feast Fit for a Wookiee With The Life Day Cookbook - Exclusive Preview on StarWars.com (backup link)- Star Wars: The Galactic Advent Calendar
- Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook
- Star Wars: Exploring Tatooine
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook
- ↑ Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook establishes that the in-universe book was published at the same time as when the First Order was searching for the Resistance base on Batuu, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY.
- ↑
Black Spire Outpost Cookbook Author Interview with Chelsea Monroe-Cassel! - That Hashtag Show by Lyle Russell on That Hashtag Show (September 10, 2019) (backup link archived on September 28, 2023)
- ↑ Black Spire Outpost Cookbook Author Interview with Chelsea Monroe-Cassel! by Lyle Russel on thathashtagshow.com (September 10, 2019) (backup link archived on September 28, 2023)
