Singapore’s “long tea” tea drinking culture – Tea Net

新加坡的“长茶”饮茶文化YNw Tea

Singapore is a multicultural country, Chinese accounted for 76% of the total population, but also has been colonized by the British for more than a hundred years of history, this demographic composition and historical background, making Singapore not only Chinese tea, British afternoon tea, and there is a unique Singapore “long tea”. The so-called “Long Tea” is a kind of milk tea made by adding the right amount of milk to the brewed black tea. Drinking this “long tea”, often not to drink tea, but to let the buffet-style eating snacks occupy a dominant position, so the quality of this “long tea” is not high, tea drinkers are more interested in Dr. Tea’s tea performance. ynw tea net

Dr. Tea’s tea pouring performance can be described as a pure skill. Dr. Tea holds a large tea canister in one hand and a tea cup in the other, one on top of the other, with an interval of about 1 meter between the two hands. They will milk tea from the big tea canister into the tea cup, and then from the tea cup back to the big tea canister, so that repeated 7 times, it means that the black tea and milk fused with each other into one, this kind of pouring tea show is a kind of superb skills, in the process of repeated pouring tea, milk tea half will not overflow, and even less splash to the body of the tea guest, because of the many tea drinkers rather than come to drink tea, as if to say that it is to watch the tea show. ynw Tea Network

Due to the large proportion of ethnic Chinese in Singapore, the Chinese tea ceremony is also very marketable. Some teahouses specializing in Chinese tea are very popular. It is not only the Chinese who come here to drink tea, but also many people who come here to visit or do business. They gather in the teahouse to spend time, talk business, or catch up on old times, and it has become a social place that people like to go to. ynwtea.net