Thursday, July 10, 2008

Three Cups of Tea

Since we are far from being on Asian Time (last night I was alseep at 9:30pm and woke up this morning at 6:45am), I guess it shouldn't be such a surprise that by 10am we were on meal #2 of the day today. Yup, thats right, Colby and I are eating our way (literally) through Southeast Asia. Anyways, we are sitting down for dim sum (which is rather hard to do when you eat neither pork nor shellfish), and they bring us tea with 3 cups. Thinking that the waitress merely miscounted (duh, there are only 2 of us) we left the 3rd cup where it was and didn't think much of it. A few minutes later the waitress came back over and gave us a little lesson in tea drinking etiquette. You are always given at least 1 additional cup when tea is served to you. This way, you can pour the tea way in advance so that when you are done with your cup, there is already another cup waiting for you that has cooled down. I mean, it is after all 12 billion degrees here so cooled tea is very important! Maybe its just me, but I thought this was really cool (maybe thats also because I just finished reading a book called Three Cups of Tea...)

Just a word to the wise for any future travelers who go places with Colby, you are going to want to have more than 1 extra cup when drinking tea with her. She gulps those down like its her job :)

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