Tea and a movie

Now some of you may say, "does this really have anything to do with tea" and my answer to this is, "yes, yes it does."

Here are my convincing reasons as to why.

A. It is called the DARJEELINGlimited. What is Darjeeling? oh, it is a type of TEA... Now you might say when they named the movie they probably weren't thinking about the tea but the train they are on in it, which is called the Darjeeling limited...this is probably true... But I bet when the train was named they were thinking about the tea, or more the place where the tea is grown but really, same thing... so in a round about way this movie is in fact named after tea.

B. Through out the movie they are continuously asked if they would like some tea. So they drank a lot of tea throughout this movie. You might say tea was the fourth main character. The three brothers and their cups of tea.

C. This movie is as wonderful, magical, beautiful, quirky and as sweet as every other Wes Anderson movie. What else is wonderful, magical, beautiful, quirky and sweet? Yep, TEA!

I think those are more then enough reasons to show how much the Darjeeling limited has to do with tea.
So go get your favorite cup of tea and sneak it into the movie theatre and see "The Darjeeling Limited" you will be happy if you do and probably be a more peaceful person for the rest of your life. So I would suggest doing it.


...also... well you are at the theatre breaking rules by bringing in a cup of tea you might as well break another rule and sneak into another movie and see "Into the Wild" too... This really has nothing to do with tea... there is no tea... the main character, or any other character are never shown drinking tea...but...i'm sure at one point in their lives they did... so go see it! It really is so good.



Tea of the moment: Vanilla Cream naturally flavored black tea loose leaf

a dash of milk?

So although I have talked a lot about putting milk in your tea I have yet to mention the rules. Oh yes, there are intense rules when it comes to milk and tea, and all avid tea drinkers obied by them.

This recently came to mind when I was given green tea with milk and sugar. I didn't say anything cause I'm not a pretentious tea drinking beast. I quietly drank my couldve been delicious green tea that now tasted like lukewarm dishwater...bah... This is no good, no good at all. Teas like green, white, oolong, jasmine or any kind of herbal should never have milk added to them. They have such a mild taste already that if milk is added it completely drowns out the flavor of the tea. Making it pretty much tastes like you are drinking hot water with a dash of milk, which is just gross, and not tea at all.

Although you can add milk to black teas, and in my opinion should, you have to be careful about it. Lots of people just put in the milk as soon as they add the tea bag, or even worse, before they add the tea bag. Milk stops the tea from brewing, so if you add the milk too quick the tea stops brewing and again you just have hot water with milk... BLEH. Black teas should be left to brew for at least 3 minutes. Once 3 minutes is up add your milk and sugar and it is magic.


So don't make dishwater tea because you couldn't wait for it to brew, dishwater tea is not tea at all.

Danke!






Tea of the moment: jasmine downy pearl tea.... no milk please