Tea for Two

I have always liked tea. Being Chinese, I often have my meals with warm tea instead of soft drinks or wine. The tea sort of balances out the taste of grease and salt in the little dishes that we eat with rice. Even though I eat Asian food a few times a week and French cuisine the rest of the time, I still continue to consume my favourite drink on a daily basis. It is a routine now that we have tea for breakfast every morning. On some days, we take tea in the afternoon to go with some cakes and biscuits. Almost everytime after I have braved the cold outside, I would want to recuperate my warmth and morale through having a nice tea with cakes.

We get most of our supplies of tea from a tea house named Mariage Frères in Paris. It has become my Singaporean friends' favourite tea house as well. Just an hour ago, I came back from their shop near Odéon to get a box of mint tea and a box of perfumed green tea for a friend. The green tea that I got for her is named Vert Provence. The tea contains good quality green tea with light infusion of flowers and fruits from the south, such as red berries, blackcurrant, lavender and rose. We have a box of this tea at home too and we usually drink it in the afternoon. The taste of the infusion becomes more distinct when a little sugar is added.