Teams & friends.
What Tea is your favourite and what brands do you recommend?
Here we have in general 2 classes of teas:
1. Black tea which is a blend from local and Sri-Lanka
2. Rooiboos (red bush tea)
In #1, we have mostly Joko, 5 Roses as being our favourites here. Loose tea is most common. Bags not so much as it is considered not to part good flavours. We do get in border towns tea from Zimbabwe which I happen now to like a lot - Tanganda tea - very earthy flavour.
For us Pakistanis our colonial masters made sure that tea should be ingrained into their subjects. And yes even after so many decades, we still are addicted to it.
My grandfather often while drinking his morning or afternoon tea tell us how english pay the locals to taste the tea at tea stalls propped up by them, when it was first introduced. He said that people preffered to drink milk and rejected the tea. But then the market and publicity and free samples at every corner made sure that everyone is drinking this tea.
Funny how tea was grown in India and was introduced to Indians by the English.
Most of the people don't know but the tea usually Avalible and preffered is Earl Grey.
Black tea drink with milk.
Local geen tea is also very famous in our northern parts where after eating meat heavy food they always prefer green tea. Which is some special local kind.
And kashmiri tea, which is pink tea is drink during winters.
There is no comparison to this tea . Is is cooked for hours on steam. And only then it is made perfect served with almonds and salt and sugar. But sugar destroys it in my opinion..
Though most people nowadays claim to be coffee lovers but in general we prefer tea.
