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[Director] What would you normally do while you are waiting for it to boil?
[Nina] Do some other things. There's so many other things to do aren't there?
[Mary] Do breakfast early morning while it's boiling.
[Nina] Do hoovering.
[Director] Who normally makes the tea then?
[Zita] At home? [Director] Yeah at home.
[Zita] I think all of us, isn't it?
The mum will make the tea and then by the time the tea has boiled she will make breakfast.
[Zita] It's always the mums!
In China tea drinking was always a sociable experience. It's always happened in a public place
and that culture has kept on all these years. It has become a tradition, like friends
always meet in a teahouse, to spend some times the whole afternoon just sitting there
in the teahouse drinking tea. Sometimes there is a storyteller, he would tell like tell
stories there, and men chatting to each other, you know, some old people would carry a bird
cage or something sat there. It's a great place; it's like the theatre.
[Stephen] Tea without the masala or tea without the ginger it's a must you have to have either one or the other.
Nobody just drinks plain tea. To compliment the teas, in Tanzania,
we also offer the guests these side dishes. We have chapatti... you'd have samosa and
you'd have your mendazi.
When it's ready this is masala tea.
In this house I'd get masala tea, in that house I'll get some other tea, no teas are the same.
And this is for me.
Like if you drink a cup of tea at Mary's house it will be different to drink a cup of tea at my house.
You drink in Nina's house it would be different.
But we still use the same tea leaves, the same thing. It's just different.
It taste nice. Reminds me of India!
I think that the whole experience of making tea, like this green tea, when you open the
tea jar and you smell it and you know it just kind of clears up your head for you and then
I put it in and fill the water in. The whole process is very calming as well as drinking
the tea and... Once it's ready you pour it then, you know, like I drink like this. It
all goes like all the way down into my body and my stomach and it's very warming and it
just leaves a very clean taste in my mouth. It just clears my head and makes me feel good,
you know, about myself and life in general.
I don't really have this tea because I'm not really a fan of spices in tea.
I'm a firm believer in just spices should be with food and not tea.
So I guess Anna's more interesting than I am!
Everyone thinks that their way is the best way and whenever you go away from home, you
try to get a cup of tea and it never tastes the same as when you are at home and that
is what I find is absolutely fascinating, because you literally are at the stage where
the tea becomes part of your way of life, part of your culture. And I love that,
I love the fact that you can actually have that and really get your teeth stuck into something
which means so much to you. And it's just a drink that's all it is,
but it evokes so many pleasures in you. That's why I love tea.
The most important effect of tea will be relaxing. I just sit back and have that cup of tea,
and have that break and space for myself and just... nobody wants anything from me.
I'm having my cup of tea. I can get on with life later.