Some Tea With Me

Tag: indian

  • Hong Cha? No, I wanted Black Tea

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    Black tea. This can be a misleading term. During my recent visit to Tea Drunk in NYC I really enjoyed that they wrote this little gem on their menu: RED TEA 紅茶: known as black tea by rest of the world for reasons we do not understand When working at the teahouse, this was one of…

  • Differences in Darjeeling

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    Today I was drinking a cup of Darjeeling tea, from a bag as must be done at some point or other in one’s life, and thinking about the emphatic monogram, “The Champagne of Tea” that is printed on the package. I realized that much of the Western world is probably just as confused by that…