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Default Tea in a Chinese restaurant

aem wrote:
> On Jul 13, 12:22 pm, Gloria P > wrote:
>> Do your local Chinese restaurants charge for a pot of tea?
>> [snip]
>> What's customary where you live?
>>

> We go mostly to the San Gabriel Valley in SoCal and there is no charge
> for tea that I can recall. For dim sum we usually specify a
> particular tea (pu er with chrysanthemum) and there's no charge for
> that either. If you don't specify they serve jasmine. -aem


I wish we had a dim sum joint around here, we learned to love the stuff
on visits to Hong Kong.