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Indian Spiced Chai Tea A rich blend of Ceylon black tea, cardamom, cloves, coriander, cumin seed, sweet cumin seeds, curry leaves, rampe leaves. Chai is so prevalent in India and Sri Lanka
that it could be called the National drink. It is very common to see
the tea wadis serving their chai to the walk-by street traffic. In North
America we have the coffee carts in the sub continent and Sri Lanka
you have the wadis. Paint the following picture in your mind: the tea
wadis cart has that well used look (bashed, dented), quite often with a
charcoal fire going keeping the water boiling so steam and smoke are
rising, an old evaporated milk can full of sugar, another bashed and
dented can with the chai spices, an eclectic collection of semi- clean
mugs and glasses and a wizened chai expert deftly pouring back and forth
from great heights, tea with spices and milk, combining the two
ingredients. Once combined it is normal to add a fantastic amount of
sugar for that real chai experience. Chai is brewed with milk and a mixture of spices. Each recipe can be different depending upon the spices used. The word chai literally means tea (different languages use various forms of this word - for example Portuguese call it cha , Hindus call it chai, and in Chinese the sound of the symbol for tea sounds very much like cha.) Turn your bag of Chai upside down a few times, since during transit the spices can settle at the bottom of the bag. |
