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Having Tea at "TO BE" Restaurant - Culture Crossover#1 TO BE Restaurant opened testingly last night: Chinese music, darkbrown cigar, 3 hours cooked Cantonese soup, soap-like cheese, east-west fusion rice, Great Wall white wine, portuguese red, world map, China map, dif. languages. And, a drop of blk opium (small as a tiny mouth shit) bestowed for me to eat w/the rice (I dont feel anything  Talking philosophy in TO BE Restaurant is boring; why not some concrete thing? So, drink some fine green tea to draw an end. Be wary, several tiny cups would make you open eyes till dawn. ------ My foreign friends, do you know how to take Chinese green tea? Below a lesson for you: Accompanied by a Chinese love, An European , who has roamed long in the east, brought back home for his mother some nice green tea. : Mother, Chinese tea for you. Mother: Tks, . But i am used to English tea. : But dont you know green tea is good for cutting fat? Mother: Ah, yeah? I will drink it w/ your sisters. We all need that! So, later day, the Chinese girlfriend saw this stunning funny scene: The honorable mother made the green tea in a very big Chinese teapot, poured it down to the daughters' tall, big sized cups - purling, purling... Mother: mmh, a bit bitter... Daughters: why not put some sugars, mom? The Chinese girl hardly fainted - the ladies babbled, babbled, throwing sugars into their green tea cups. Mother still asking: wanna milk? ... Finally, our girl condemned her boyfriend, You bought them the tea, but you dont teach them the way? He answered, "no, no, they liked it this (English) way." ------- Aferwords: The most exquisite tea art is called kung fu tea, popular in South East China. Teapot, cup and temprature of water, how to pour water, speed/strength of pouring tea and teatime all matters. Mmh...it reminded me the wonderful tea times i spent in Shantou/campus. Pic.: 14 pcs Kung fu tea tools 
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Swallow, LOL! I've had a similar experience with an ex Chinese bf. He saw the way I drank tea with one third of it milk and two tea spoons of sugar. So when he came back from China he brough me some real Chinese tea. I was surprised that it was leaves in a jar. There was also some dried flowers in it. At first I put too many leaves in the tea cup. He laughed and I asked if I was doing it wrong and he replied, "Well, it's okay if you like it that way." LOL, well I learned that just a little is better. It was also beautiful to see the little white flowers rehydrate. I love new things. Well, I mean new to me. Pup
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Mydogateit, Your own experience is interesting. Traditionally, we Chinese never drink tea w/sugar, except for chrysanthemum flower tea. The tea offered by yr ex bf should be flower tea. But please please never take green tea w/ sugar and milk, in order to preserve an sweet soft aftertaste It's green tea not ceylon black tea, nor Lipton. That's why the girl in my story wanted to die of that treatment to our green tea. Another thing, in Taiwan, they mix up juice, sago rice, anything w/ green tea and do it in a western fancy way. Also possible crossover in tea. But i wont drink that. Teens like it.
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