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Some recipes are so strange that you don’t even want to try them.
China and England are considered to be the legislators of tea fashion. It seems that even from the tap there will go tea rather than water. Modern people, however, have little time for unhurried tea drinking. However, tea traditions are still alive today. And in some parts of the world, they are simply amazing.
Australia: Smells like beer. Tastes like beer
Australian company Victoria Bitter has released hop beer. Drink and drive, drink and go to work. There is no alcohol and intoxicating effect in this tea, so it has a lot of different-sex and different-age fans. But today you can try it only in Australia. By the way, on the mainland, removed from the rest of the world, tea appeared with the filing of the British. A single bush planted by settlers has grown into a limitless plantation and has become an important component of Australian culture. There, among farmers and hunters, it is customary to brew tea in a canister over an open fire.
Japan: pilaf in a teapot
Genmaicha is considered a “soup drink” and has little resemblance to tea. Nevertheless, it contains only large-leaved green tea and fried rice. It is brewed in an ordinary teapot. And instead of sugar or jam, this tea is quite logically served with a salt shaker. Salt to taste and enjoy exotic flavors.
Those same glasses of Armudu
Turkey: black long-haired – and no fuss
The tart and strongest tea can be found in the bustling Turkish market. There it is drunk by men, young and old, from special glasses of armudu. These glasses have a special pear-shaped shape that allows you to keep the drink warm during a long conversation. Tea ceremonies are held in the midst of the day in the shade of the vegetable and homemade cheese stalls. Sometimes dried apples or pears are added to tea, and sugary and spicy delight is served as a delicacy.
Morocco: expensive and without tea
Perhaps the most unusual tea drinks are served in Morocco. There is no tea in the composition – only spices and a lot of sugar. And sometimes it’s spices and a lot of sugar.
Traditionally, the oldest woman in a Moroccan family brews tea. She mixes boiling water with air, pouring tea in a thin stream from a height into a cup. In a restaurant or a tea shop for this ritual, you can pay a decent amount and be disappointed without waiting for the usual strong tea.
Some types of tea are more like soup.
Mongolia: yak oil tea
The taste of Mongolian national tea may shock you. Atkanchay is still loved in certain regions of Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Siberia. It is so fatty and salty thanks to yak milk that some housewives serve this tea with manti. Since this drink is still prepared with oil, why boil water twice. Of course, for Europeans and modern Russian consumers, such tea will become an unexpected experiment, but many Buddhists speak about its beneficial properties, who also use a fatty drink in their diet.
East Africa: chocolate tea
The British and Africans also shared seedlings of large leaf tea. An enterprising people have created a cocoa-flavored drink and sell it all over the world. By the way, it is in Africa that such types of tea grow that have not taken root anywhere else in the world. For example, rooibos and honeibos, which are exported to different countries from Germany to France. By the way, rooibos and honeybush are the colloquial pronunciation of these types of drink. So do not rush to laugh at the “rooibos”.
General Director of the Lipetsk Rosinka plant, the official manufacturer and distributor of Nestea tea in Russia
“It is still unclear whose tea tastes better, because legends about the drink spread all over the world: in Europe and Asia, in London and in China. One thing is for sure: people created a healing drink from the plant, and then a separate culture. In tsarist Russia, even after they drank tea hot, they prepared it in samovars, and they began to grow it in our country back in Soviet times in a mountain valley in Sochi. Now the tea culture has been transformed. With us, the type of tea is not so much important as the way it is served. People prefer to save time, especially young people. Therefore, ready-made tea in bottles is increasingly chosen – it is still much healthier than soda. “