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unusual facts about Chinese tea



Zhang Dai

His family's wealth allowed him to develop his aesthetic tastes in such pursuits as Moon watching festivals, Chinese lantern design, the sponsorship of dramatic troupes, appreciation of tea, and garden and landscape aesthetics.


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Dimsum

Dim sum, a Chinese light meal or brunch served with Chinese tea

Dwarkanath Tagore

Tagore's company managed huge zamindari estates spread across today's West Bengal and Odisha states in India, and in Bangladesh, besides holding large stakes in new enterprises that were tapping the rich coal seams of Bengal, running tug services between Calcutta and the mouth of the river Hooghly and transplanting Chinese tea crop to the plains of Upper Assam.

Pearl tea

Gunpowder tea (zhū chá or "pearl tea), a form of green Chinese tea

Tea egg

In Indonesia, Chinese tea eggs have been adopted into native Indonesian cuisine as telur pindang and the ingredients have also been slightly changed.