Tea House

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Tea House: A Tea Drinking Parlor

If you are tired of going to common shops and cafes for yum cha' sessions, you better start searching for alternate places. Well, at least drinks are not just limited to shops or restaurants or even cafes, especially when it comes to that of the exclusive drink like tea. There are many tea houses around the country which offers this serving of all kind of teas.

Basically a tea house is a place which is centered on the drinking of tea, or on the having of a yum cha' session, which basically just means the same. A tea house is also known as a tea room or tea parlor, and though the main function is to serve tea, it may differ according to different cultures.

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Tradition of Tea Serving

The tradition of having tea in a special room or house started in Japan centuries ago, but it became very famous during the war years, primarily around the 1930s and 1950s. After the glum and depressing war mood subsided, this tradition also subsided a bit as well, but it then traveled out of Japan and landed everywhere else.

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In the mid 1990s, the tea house tradition was introduced to the Northern American countries, and also in many European countries as well. Tea had already been very famous in Western Europe for many years, as people have always been looking for an alternate place to drink tea, they especially wanted a place that was closed from the din of the city life, and dimly lit like other drinking parlors, with soft music and groups of people discussing about their daily life.

In fact, in those days in Japan, there existed many places called the floating worlds' , which had a special café called the tea house, and which were dimly lit, and to which only a certain group of people were allowed inside to, while the rest were made to sit outside.

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A tea house was also used to hold tea ceremonies by certain people, especially those from the more high status society. Inside this tea house, there may be several other tea rooms which are used for this specific reason, and a tea room is called cha-shitsu.

In China on the other hand, a tea house still basically served the same purpose, but at the same time, it was also used for gambling. Nowadays, a tea house in China has become a place for young couples to go on their dates, for instance.

Nowadays, some of the teas that can be found in a tea house menu would include that of: green tea, white tea, yellow tea, oolong tea, black tea, herbal and scented tea, fruit tea, decaf tea, and many more. Besides just serving tea these days, a tea house may also sell tea accessories such as tea pots, cups and saucers and so forth.

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