On 7/29/2016 11:49 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 10:18:38 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> Does anyone know what is meant by this? I recently read a series of
>>> books by
>>> a British author. The books were her life story. She lived in a
>>> variety of
>>> places and often referred to the quality of tea as either being
>>> cheap, poor
>>> quality, better quality, superb quality, etc.
>>>
>>> Here, most places do not serve good tea because they will bring you a
>>> little
>>> pot of hot but not boiling hot water and a tea bag. I'm sure the tea
>>> in the
>>> bag is fine but the water is not hot enough to get much tea out of
>>> the bag.
>>> Now exceptions would be green or white tea but... To make it
>>> properly, you
>>> still need to bring the water to a boil then let it cool off. I've
>>> been told
>>> that bringing it to a boil for one minute and no longer will get the
>>> correct
>>> amount of oxygen into the water. Boil it for too long and the end result
>>> will suffer. I think the same applies to red tea. I don't buy that. I
>>> did
>>> try a sample once and didn't care for it too much. Wasn't bad. I just
>>> like
>>> other teas a lot better.
>>>
>>> There are places here where you can get a proper pot or cup of tea
>>> but in
>>> most cases they are advertised as tea shops. Most restaurants do not
>>> offer
>>> big pots of tea. I know of one that used to, in the U District but it is
>>> long gone.
>>>
>>> At home, I usually buy tea bags. But I do have tea strainers and can use
>>> regular tea if I have to. I just can't think of any I've ever bought
>>> that I
>>> would call poor quality or cheap although I have purchased
>>> inexpensive tea.
>>>
>>> Could it be that the author meant that the tea she was getting was
>>> not made
>>> properly? Or is there some really crappy tea out there for sale?
>>
>> Tea of that sort won't be very popular in the US. My guess is that
>> this kind of tea is going to be very popular with the kids - Hong Kong
>> milk tea.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehidLvfaYnw
>
> Bubble tea was popular here for a while. It's still around. I just never
> see anyone drinking it.

My feeling is that young people are going to burn out on coffee and
switch to something cool and sweet. By "feeling" I mean seeing what's
going on around me.

My daughter bought a bag of bubble tea mix. She just makes drinks
without the tapioca balls. It's fine that way. My son and daughter are
drinking bubble tea and tea drinks. I don't ever see them drinking
coffee. I had some bubble tea a couple of days ago. I'm not crazy about
those balls in there. Chewy, but tasteless.