Drinking Chinese Tea, In Context
If a Western foreigner walks into a restaurant in China and orders tea, odds are good that they’ll be served a Lipton tea bag. It’s made in China, of course, but still Lipton. If you know that tea was first cultivated in China, that it’s been produced and savored here for at least the last fifteen hundred years, then you understand the travesty of this. Amy was first to work it out and start demanding the good stuff. It does require some persistence.Amy: I’ll have tea to drink.
Waitress: Lipton.
Amy: No, Chinese tea.
Waitress: Chinese tea?
Amy: Chinese tea.
Waitress: Chinese tea?
