[tessa]

good luck with the job Oregon

[OregonYeti]

Thanks, Tessa

[tessa]

Originally Posted by OregonYeti

I have two favorites, Assam and Darjeeling. With Assam tea I use spices and with Darjeeling I don't. I drink both with milk and sugar.

we went to Darjeeling when we went to india, it was so cool having some darjeeling chai on the road side of a tea plantation with the 3rd highest mountain in India looking over us

[tessa]

Originally Posted by OregonYeti

Oh by the way, the answer to that is, it is traditional.

In India , tea is served that way every where but they boil it all together in a pot it takes a bit of getting used to especially i found it a bit too sweet as i drink my tea with milk no sugar
if we were out somewhere and i wanted tea to drink i would have to ask for black tea with milk , they would bring the tea and a jug of boiling hot milk (no pasturisation) it made the tea taste quite strange. im sure i also had buffalo milk and yak milk at sometime as well

[Gummy-Bear]

Originally Posted by tessa

In India , tea is served that way every where but they boil it all together in a pot it takes a bit of getting used to especially i found it a bit too sweet as i drink my tea with milk no sugar
if we were out somewhere and i wanted tea to drink i would have to ask for black tea with milk , they would bring the tea and a jug of boiling hot milk (no pasturisation) it made the tea taste quite strange. im sure i also had buffalo milk and yak milk at sometime as well

The buffalo milk sounds delicious. I would love to go to India for the scenery and the tea. Before I settle down, I'm planning on going to Japan, China, and Thailand, just for the culinary part of it. I may put India in there somewhere.

I'm so excited. It's raining over here. We have been in a drought for about 3 months. It even dropped below 90 degrees today.

[OregonYeti]

Originally Posted by tessa

In India , tea is served that way every where but they boil it all together in a pot it takes a bit of getting used to especially i found it a bit too sweet as i drink my tea with milk no sugar
if we were out somewhere and i wanted tea to drink i would have to ask for black tea with milk , they would bring the tea and a jug of boiling hot milk (no pasturisation) it made the tea taste quite strange. im sure i also had buffalo milk and yak milk at sometime as well

You got it exactly, of course.

People in India think of tea as a sweet, it seems. It is a bit too sweet for me. They don't eat or drink sweet things often, and tea is one of those few times.

I'm sure I had some non-cow milk, but I don't think I have tried yak. I should go back just for that.

[OregonYeti]

If I really get serious about yak-milk tea, I should go to Tibet. They use yak butter and salt too.

[tessa]

Originally Posted by OregonYeti

You got it exactly, of course.

People in India think of tea as a sweet, it seems. It is a bit too sweet for me. They don't eat or drink sweet things often, and tea is one of those few times.

I'm sure I had some non-cow milk, but I don't think I have tried yak. I should go back just for that.

they do eat lots of sweets there , they even have a festival called Diwali where at the end sweets are given as gifts and eaten by everybody and loads of salty snacks as well , their sweets are very sweet compared to european tastes.
when we were travelling they had chai whallers , snack whallers, soup whallers working the trains and busses and selling their goodies. Whallers are merchants, it made for interesting and noisy journeys ... great fun

[OregonYeti]

I've been to India too--born there in fact :^)

Most people can't afford much sweet stuff.

[tessa]

Originally Posted by OregonYeti

I've been to India too--born there in fact :^)

Most people can't afford much sweet stuff.

it was like every where we went there were sweet stalls and lots of housewives buying
and on the trains, mind you i think it was a different class of buyers, those that can afford the trains and stuff

where were you born and did you move around and live in different places oregon
this was my first time there , Bruce has been there 3 times now
we went down the east coast, delhi,amrhitsa,back to delhi, mathura, agra, varanasi, kolkutta, darjeeling, bhubaneswa, vijiwada , chennai
just an incredible country , and i so would love to go back

[OregonYeti]

I was born in Gauhati, Assam--now called Guwahati. Spent most of my early years in Assam state.

I went to boarding school in the Himalayas.

I've also lived in Hyderabad, in south India. Thirteen of my first 16 years were in India, but there is so much to explore, so much regional culture and cuisine, that I can't claim to have seen a tenth of it.

[tessa]

wow what an intersting childhood
coming stateside must have been a bit of a culture shock

[OregonYeti]

Originally Posted by tessa

wow what an intersting childhood
coming stateside must have been a bit of a culture shock

Yeah it was But I wouldn't exactly fit in there (India) now, either.

[Gummy-Bear]

What shocked you most about the USA? I waiter friend of mine is from China and said the most surprising thing was how different everyone looked. Like hair and skin color.

[OregonYeti]

Hair and skin color didn't faze me at all since my parents are white, I'm white and I went to an international school with kids from all over the world.

What struck me was how mean kids were (I was in 12th grade), how much was wasted (food and all, disposable everything), how much meat people ate, and how dependent people were on cars. I also loved all the Italian food in New Jersey, and air conditioning. Those were my thoughts at the time, and if I went back to India now I'm sure I would have culture shock again.

Now I depend on my car as much as the next person here