Kate Connally wrote:
> Gloria P wrote:
>>
>> Do your local Chinese restaurants charge for a pot of tea?
>>
>> When we lived in New England, and now in Colorado, the waitstaff
>> brings a free pot of tea after taking your order even if you don't ask
>> for it, and it's usually quite a nice tea.
>>
>> We were quite surprised on my first trip to California, back in the
>> 70s when things were cheap, to ask for tea along with our other
>> drinks, and find a $2 charge on the bill for it. I think it was in
>> L.A. We ate a lot of Chinese and Japanese that trip because it was
>> such a nice change from New England's bland Cantonese style.
>>
>> What's customary where you live?
>
> In Pittsburgh they charge. When I lived in So. Calif. it came
> with the meal. However there's a Vietnamese place I go to here
> that does'nt charge. And they have a very unusually flavored
> tea. I usually don't care about tea. But I love this stuff.
> I asked them what it was and they just said it was Vietnamese
> tea. Whatever that means. I think it must have something else
> in it to flavor it - maybe some sort of flower blossoms or
> something. I don't think it's lotus though.
>
> Kate
>
> Kate
>
The other popular "flavor" for Vietnamese tea is jasmine. Could that be it?