🌷1 Day Left!!!To count down the last few days until this year's Ladies' Chai Social, we are presenting tea traditions from around the world - some popularly known, and some that may surprise you! Read on to find out how various cultural traditions center around this versatile drink, and then enjoy a sip with us at Tilly's Tea Room on April 22! ☕️🌸chaisocial2018.eventbrite.com #indychai #seedsoflearning #empoweringwomen #teaaroundtheworld
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Pakistan
Tea is a common drink and a courtesy extended to guests across Pakistan. An element of Kashmiri culture, Noon Chai is a special blend of tea that includes a mix of pistachios, almonds, salt, milk, and spices like cardamom, cinnamon, and star anise. It's easy to pick out because of its signature pink color, which can be enhanced with a bit of baking soda. Served on special occasions, Noon Chai is typically enjoyed with pastries like sheermaal, kandir tchot, bakarkhani, and kulcha. More casually enjoyed is "Doodh Pati," or milk tea, which involves no water.

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/72891/15-tea-traditions-around-world

To count down the last few days until this year's Ladies' Chai Social, we are presenting tea traditions from around the world - some popularly known, and some that may surprise you! Read on to find out how various cultural traditions center around this versatile drink, and then enjoy a sip with us at Tilly's Tea Room on April 22! chaisocial2018.eventbrite.com #indychai #seedsoflearning #empoweringwomen #teaaroundtheworld
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Russia
The tea traditions of Russia were forged in its leaner days, where food and drinks needed to be stretched to serve as many as possible. From these shortages came zavarka, a loose-leaf tea concentrate brewed in a small metal container called a samovar. In this vessel, a very strong (usually black) tea is brewed and then served in large mugs. However, you wouldn't dare fill the mug. Instead, guests take an inch or less of this powerful concoction that they then tame with boiling water as desired. Russians typically drink it black, but hosts will offer milk and sugar, as well as an accompanying snack. Serving zavarka without cookies, crackers or some other munchable is to serve it "naked" and is considered wildly rude.

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/72891/15-tea-traditions-around-world

🌷☕️🌸 3 Days Left! To count down the last few days until this year's Ladies' Chai Social, we are presenting tea traditions from around the world - some popularly known, and some that may surprise you! Read on to find out how various cultural traditions center around this versatile drink, and then enjoy a sip with us at Tilly's Tea Room on April 22! chaisocial2018.eventbrite.com #indychai #seedsoflearning #empoweringwomen #teaaroundtheworld
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Argentina
This South American nation has yerba mate(pronounced ma-tay), an herb "tea" made from its titular herb. Called "the drink of the gods," it's a staple of Argentinian life. It is prepared in a small pot or dried calabaza gourd from which it's drunk through a special straining straw called a bombilla. This device will be revived with more hot water, and passed around a gathering so all might share its tea and bond. To say "thank you" in this situation is seen as declining the drink, which is a grave insult. Also insulting: stirring the brew with the bombilla, as it questions the abilities of its brewer/your host. Traditionally, yerba mate is served without a sweetener, but younger generations have taken to adding sugar or honey.

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🌟 4 days left!!! To count down the last few days until this year's Ladies' Chai Social, we are presenting tea traditions from around the world - some popularly known, and some that may surprise you! Read on to find out how various cultural traditions center around this versatile drink, and then enjoy a sip with us at Tilly's Tea Room on April 22! chaisocial2018.eventbrite.com #indychai #seedsoflearning #empoweringwomen #teaaroundtheworld
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Japan
Like China, this island nation also has highly detailed tea ceremonies with names like Chanoyu, Sado, or Ocha. The movements of the brewer in these processes are carefully choreographed to care and consider the viewpoint of the guest being served. These ceremonies include everything from the preparation of the home to how guests are invited into it, the order in which utensils are brought into the room, the cleaning and warming of these tools, the actual brewing, and the cleanup. Details vary depending on the time of day and season, but the powdered green tea Matcha is the preferred blend. It is served with sweets to play against its bitter flavor.

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🌟5 days left! To count down the last few days until this year's Ladies' Chai Social, we are presenting tea traditions from around the world - some popularly known, and some that may surprise you! Read on to find out how various cultural traditions center around this versatile drink, and then enjoy a sip with us at Tilly's Tea Room on April 22! chaisocial2018.eventbrite.com #indychai #seedsoflearning #empoweringwomen #teaaroundtheworld
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Morocco
A mix of mint, green tea leaves, and a generous serving of sugar, Touareg tea (also known as Maghrebi mint tea) is the customary blend in this North African country. Poured from up high into slim, delicate glasses, it's served three times to guests. Each time the flavor varies slightly. Per the proverb: "The first glass is as gentle as life, the second is as strong as love, the third is as bitter as death." Refusing any one of these servings is considered the height of rudeness.

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/72891/15-tea-traditions-around-world

🌟6 Days Left! To count down the last few days until this year's Ladies' Chai Social, we are presenting tea traditions from around the world - some popularly known, and some that may surprise you! Read on to find out how various cultural traditions center around this versatile drink, and then enjoy a sip with us at Tilly's Tea Room on April 22! chaisocial2018.eventbrite.com #indychai #seedsoflearning #empoweringwomen #teaaroundtheworld
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Tibet
Forget the “milk or lemon” debate. How about adding some salty butter to your tea? Po cha, the traditional tea of Tibet, is made by boiling a brick of Pemagul black tea for hours. From there, milk, salt, and yak butter are added, and the mixture is then churned together. It's said this blend with a soup-like consistency is uniquely comforting and fortifying in the high-altitude and cold climates.

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/72891/15-tea-traditions-around-world