Thanks Ben, for helping me get with the programme. But first, a nice cup of tea.
Step One: Fill half the glass with freshly boiled water. Pour jasmine leaves into the infuser and put that into the cup, then pour the rest of the water over the leaves, cover and leave to steep.
Step Two: Lift lid, albeit gingerly (it’s friggin’ hot), invert on table whilst trying not to drop and break it.
Step Three: Lift infuser to drain the tea leaves and set on the inverted lid/dish.
Ta-Dah! Fragrant jasmine tea.
Actually I don’t know why I’m doing this since it only works with this mega cool glass infuser cup thingy I got from Neal Street. Obsession with tea is what hanging out in England has left me with, that after Obession with the weather. No Brit-ish accent though. Street pronunciation is certainly not like in the BBC and I don’t like it all that much.
It’s 5am and I’m still awake. It has been thus for the past few days. Argh.
2 Comments
January 17, 2006 at 3:14 am
I haven’t actually seen British drink much tea. On the contrary, my hallmates and I who are not English drink tea every night. Hahaa..
Maybe it’s time we dispel these romanticised notions of English culture. They don’t speak in nice accents, they don’t really drink english tea, and they don’t really all live in nice english cottages. Not any more at least.
January 17, 2006 at 5:01 am
Maybe they do…in the ulu places. *mystified shrug*