kawaii123456 3 days ago
I never knew tea time was a unit of measure
I knew it from many novels, but until today I thought it is 3-5 minutes: you pour hot water over leaves and wait. For that matter, in East Asia (my experience is a hotel in Vietnam that served Vietnamese on vacation, pretty hard to find anyone knowing English), "everybody" would have a big thermos bottle of hot water (in a hotel, they would give it to you), so you can quickly make tea anytime you feel like it. On a long distance train in Russia, a car has samovar with hot water for the same purpose, technology that pre-dates electricity. But ceremonial tea making in East Asian countries takes more time.