Is 'cheese tea' the next Unicorn Frappe?

Cheese tea is all the rage in East and Southeast Asia, and it's exactly what it sounds like. (iStock)

This new beverage trend is totally cheesy.

Cheese tea has become a social-media sensation in East and Southeast Asia. The Instagrammable brew tops hot tea (spanning classic green to fruit-flavored and chocolate) with a fluffy layer of cream cheese.

As Malaysian food blogger Ethan Wong, quoted in Food & Wine, puts it in his blog, “When you have a sip as instructed, 40 degrees tilted, [the] right amount of cheese and tea fills your taste [buds], bursting with complex flavor.”

It also gives you a cheese-’stache.

Wong also notes that when he was in Guangzhou, China, in April, a line formed outside tea shops two hours before opening.

“I came across a shop with a huge crowd, queuing under the sun for up [to] three hours just to get themselves a cup of cheese tea,” Wong writes. “We waited for one freaking hour.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post.