I@n — 19 Feb 2006, 2:27 am

Pork chops and kungfu tea…

Shi Nai Cha Chan Ting...
Joined up with some friends for a movie, “The Fog”. I recommend that you give it a miss, total confusion at the end of the show, at least for us, not sure about the rest of the people in the cinema.We adjourned to the ????? for dinner. Big crowd, decent food, not bad. We gobbled down a couple of pork chops, chicken chops, baked rice, fried wantons and washed it all down with some hong kong “stocking” milk tea…
Pork chop, chicken chop with egg rice
After that “sinful” meal, we decided to go to ??? for some internal “cleansing”. :P

Chinese kungfu tea
I saw this place when I passed by Chinatown some time back. I used to like drinking chinese tea at teahouses a lot during my school days and I’ve been really into tea recently. But it’s been a while since I’ve been to a teahouse ‘cos I’ve been having trouble finding one and also getting friends to go with me. People here are not really into this kungfu tea drinking stuff. Personally I find that it’s real relaxing. More relaxing than going to a coffee club or starbucks. You can just drink tea and play some board games or if you want, just sit there and chillout. The staff told us that some of their customers sit there for up to 5 hours just chatting and drinking pots and pots of tea…

There’s a whole theory and study of the kinds of tea and what they can do to help you and how you should make them etc… It all sounds pretty interesting but you’re not going to miss anything if you’re not into knowing all these stuff… Just let the staff recommend you some tea and just relax and enjoy yourself.

Chinese kungfu tea
Now I’m thinking of getting a whole tea set so I could do this at home but it’s pretty expensive, the whole set plus the kettle and burner will set me back around $240… The tea itself is $60 which should allow me to make around 96 pots or 384 small cups of tea. Mind you the cups are not big, they’re small little ones like the one you see in the picture. So the whole deal’s going to be pretty expensive. I’m going to check out with some friends to see if they could recommend me a place to get a set at a more affordable price… :P

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