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A lot of being ‘into tea’ as a Chinese person in the ‘west’ is reading stuff about tea and going, what?
(My grocery store green tea says it’s a Divine Miracle Green Tea from ancient China)
Wellness culture is so fucked ahahahah
I read a really complicated thing about tea ceremonies and gongfu tea and was like, my grandpa just called it ‘making tea’, but ok
No matter what language you speak, or what beverage you like, anything that claims to be healthy or cures cancer is pretty scary.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of crunchy new age wellness stuff that intersects with ‘eastern culture’ that I find hilarious.
Oh also just read a Canadian tea vendor (who sources tea from China) claim that they invented ‘compressed tea’. As in the tea ‘cakes’. Ahahaha
@skinnylatte My people are very silly.
Another white dude who needs to f the way off I see
@chu haha like the people who invented boba recently in Canada??
He was a real winner. 
@skinnylatte Seriously?! What on earth?! I thought that horrible chai guy was horrible. It's not like there's a shortage of serious English-language information on actual tea.
@skinnylatte Even I know that can't possibly be true, tea bricks were used as currency in Russia long before Canada was invented.
@skinnylatte Yeah I was not remotely tempted by that. I went with the recommended Western chemical and radiological responses, and after almost killing me they've worked, so far, so far.
@skinnylatte Makes me think of an argument I got into over homeopathy. Someone tried to promote homeopathy as some kind of a mystical Asian alternative medicine. Except here in Bangladesh, which is *actually* in Asia, homeopathy is promoted as "cutting edge alternative medicine from Europe". -_-'
Either way, Asian or European, its BS.
@saadazim ahahaha that’s funny but also not (coz so dangerous)
@skinnylatte nothing sells in Asia quite like having anti inflammatory properties
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io for real... I've always thought it's some mysterious multi-step thing until I watched/read about it (I think it's because you talked about it).
every other night back when I was younger, my father prepped tea that way. that's just... making tea.
@skinnylatte there are westerners who call gongfu cha a "tea ceremony?" 
I guess I'm not surprised. there's a ton of racism even in some of the "serious" tea communities I've been a part of.
Wow. Yeah I chip my tea off a block, throw it in boiling cup of water, wait 5m, drink.
@skinnylatte Ah, but it’s infused with the ancient mystical wisdom of The East!