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Chinese drinking tea
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes, the Chinese drink tea, but its not as we know it.
Usually its a few large peices of leaf in a cup of warm water, scented and very refreshing. You can get this in Chinese restaurants here.
But there are hundreds of different teas, and a Chinese tea shop is the place to explore them. Some have the leaves bundled together so they look like a flower or anenome at at the bottom of the cup.
The British habit of adding milk to tea changes the drink into a tea flavoured milk drink and is best avoided.
The chinese never stopped drinking tea.
I've just come back from spending three months in China, and all I can say is that you would have a hard time finding ANY milk in China, let alone in tea.
Ok slight exaggeration, but really, they don't use milk much in China.
Tea is sold as loose leaves that you just add hot water to, there's no such thing as adding milk or sugar. They have loads of different types, the most common being green tea and jasmine tea.
Everyone drinks tea, when you go anywhere to eat tea is costantly provided throughout your meal free of charge. Taxi drivers carry around a flask with them, as do students in school. Everyone reuses the leaves- topping up the water throughout the day.
I do have to say that chinese tea felt so much healthier than english tea and it tasted and smelt better too. I didn't come across any 'english' teas there, let alone anyone drinking them. But I'm sure it would have been possible to find them in western shops for crazy money.
I know that this doesn't really add to the thread at all, but I thought I'd add my thoughts! Cheers.