I'm Somali and we drink shaah. It's a big part of our culture, everyday life, and out gatherings. It tastes a lot like chai and I'm certain we got it from South Asia. I'm from the North which was colonized by the British who brought over South Asians to work. They lived in that part of Somalia until the Civil War in the 80s. I think that's part of it but hundreds of years before that we traded often with South Asia and the Middle East so I think that's where we got it from.
That's true I remember I asked my uncle once to drink shaah and he said if you drink it you will know every secret in the world I actually believed it SOMALILAND FOREVER
I asked an India 'Walla' what the secret to his Chai was. He said that he used equal parts of water and milk. He also said that he boiled his milk before hand a few times to get it creamier. Delightful !!!
Chai should be brewed strong with fennel seeds and cardamon and a little ginger, topped with a generous amount of milk and boiled till it's sizzling. Lastly, I don't care if the British brought Chai here, our Chai here is so different and loudly represents our culture through the use of authentic spices
I'm chinese, I fell in love with masala chai the first time I made it, it was so much better than the instant powder ones, I'm very curious about Indian and Pakistani cuisine and culture. So far I've made Goan fish curry and Dal tadka. Love from China and Australia
I am from Kenya and chai has been an integral part of the daily life of Kenyans including myself because of British Colonialism which brought Indian immigrants to Kenya to build a cross country railway in the mid 19th Century and with them came their amazing cuisine including chai. I came to the US for college in 93 and after about 10 years of relying on Starbucks chai 💋😫😝👎🏿 started making my own chai again and becoming a purist in terms of the spices used. I am a full-fledged Chai connoisseur/snob and only drink what I make with the 9 spices and fair trade black tea leaves I get from home 🤣🇰🇪
America is a big place with lots of tea options. Most bottled tea is like southern sweet tea, but I think the most popular teas in southern california (where i’m from) are english/irish breakfast teas and taiwanese/east asian milk teas. I’d love to see a survey on this though :^)
@@shankysays I think the context in which they were speaking made it clear that they meant "consumption of tea in cultures outside of mainland China", and that they were just saying "tea" for the sake of brevity, maybe they should have gone into greater depth on precolonial tea cultivation, or maybe that would have distracted from the focus of video. I could see either point argued, and I do think it is valid of Ruijter to complain about the video glossing over that part of tea's history, but I don't think it is fair to say that they were working backwards from their conclusions. Sorry to disagree.
i am tibetan , born in india . In my family we make both chai and butter tea( its tibetan tea ), and when there is guest we have both and server depending on what they want .
Interesting but 2 remarks : - Using tomatoes in Italian cuisine is somehow irrelevant as an example of colonialism, because Italy never had colonies in South America, plus the tomatoes where not grown then to be sold in Europe, they were discovered there, seeds were taken and grown in Europe. So you don't need to colonize a place to bring some seeds back home. - It is unfortunate that Taiwan is not mentioned, probably because its rich tea history is not because of colonialism but because of pure business development at least at first, then grew under Japanese colonization, so as it doesn't relate to AJ's American audience, it is not worth being mentioned....
Taste of tea depends on the procedure of making it,not everybody can make a good cup of tea.Besides if you can make chai from pure mik it tastes a lot better.Some people are lactose intolerant,so they can't really enjoy real chai at all(FACT-chai without milk is like smartphone without internet)>>>FYI--You guys didn't mention about the largest producer of chai in the world i.e ASSAM.
Here in oman people are chai addict they cannot function without thier chai. We make it with cardamom and Cinnamon or saffrons or ginger And it tast amaaaazing 😋😋
The best quality chai is not boiled in the pot. First you boil the water, then you take it off the heat, then you add the leaves. For even better quality, try a pour over brew. Steeping too long creates bitterness and off flavors. With pour over, you can have three to six infusions, with the second and third considered the highest quality.
This is actually incorrect in that Tamils a large south indian ethnic group had tea far before the brits arrvied due to historic ancenstral trade routes to china as well as indonesia and cambodia...Its not even called Chai (a north indian word) so quit stereotyping and over generalizing. Also you gloss over east India (the seven sisters) and their historic tea roots not all of india is north india some indians have been drinking tea far before brits arrived.
Sana you presented very well thank you. I just wanted to add in some missing info and I hope I'm not wrong remembering the history. As you pointed out that initially tea was the elite drink before becoming a household treat, true but it wasn't after when British left that every poor peasants also started drinking tea. It was actually after the Boston tea party incident during the late 1800 that British Empire had a glut of tea and didn't know where to sell. At the same time their hold was weakening in China. So Thomas J Lipton hooked every household on tea drinking they went to every nooks and crannies and served free teas for a long time until people were hooked on tea and they all eventually became their consumers.
I’m technically Irish/Welsh/Scottish, but my family has been in America for so long that we don’t have much connection to our roots. So in attempts to get to know my own culture(s) and also in work dealing with the endangered language of Yurok and the surrounding culture, I’ve learned that one of the absolute easiest ways to learn a lot about a culture is food. It’s really cool that you can just follow the history of chai and find ways to explore so many key points of history, and so many cultures, little and big.
I am speaking from having been taught by Tibetan Buddhist monks, who have sweet tea and salty tea made with ghee . . . lots of milk . . . I think it is more a cold weather drink.
I'm sorry ik this is a serious video about the origins of tea and whatever but these two at 6:58 are just so adorable i mean look how he looks at her and then later he smiles at the camera it's just so cute.
6:00 that's incorrect. Chai was available even in 3rd class compartment of trains in colonial India. It might had started as a elites drink but it became commoners drink very early.
Always use whole organic milk (even a tbsp. of ghee), never let the tea boil, use cloves, anise seed, brown sugar or honey. Thanks for the cinnamon tip!
It’s not always colonial. Cultures that acquired tea through the overland route from China knew it as a form of the Mandarin name ‘chá’ (茶). The Persians passed it on as ‘chay’ (چای) to the Russians, while the Arabs called it ‘shay’. Swahili acquired the name this way through traders from the Middle East, and not European colonials. On the other hand, cultures that encountered Chinese tea through the sea trade knew it by the name in the dialect from the coastal province of Fujian: ‘te’. The Dutch acquired tea via Fujian, and carried the term to Europe. That’s why most European languages call tea by some version of ‘te’. The Portuguese, on the other hand, had their own Chinese port at Macao, where the ‘chá’ term was used. The Portuguese call tea ‘chá’.
This is actually incorrect in that Tamils a large south indian ethnic group had tea far before the brits arrvied due to historic ancenstral trade routes to china as well as indonesia and cambodia...Its not even called Chai (a north indian word) so quit stereotyping and over generalizing. Also you gloss over east India (the seven sisters) and their historic tea roots not all of india is north india some indians have been drinking tea far before brits arrived.
Tea was probably discovered in assam by a Brit called Alexander Wayne not related to Batman ..... Mr Wayne apparently was invited to a singfho tribe family for breakfast and they already knew about brewing tea . He liked it and told his mates and rest is history. It was in 1820s .
I didn't seriously drink tea until university. I blame my grandfather for this: he travelled with a Thermos full of tea almost everywhere. (My family is Jamaican, so I had both coffee and tea in my house growing up in equal measure.) Standard Jamaican tea is tea with evap milk and sugar -- basically British "builder's tea".
In Arabic tea is “Shai” closer to chai It’s either black or with milk and it differs from chai in the use of cardamom an cinnamon sticks And would sometimes use regular milk instead of evaporated milk
Take some water in a pan and start to heat it.put some ginger and leave it until it gets boiled..when ut starts to boil put the tea leaves..and after 2-4minutes..pour it in a cup ,,,cut a lime and pour the juice to the tea....so helpful and soothing to your stomach after having a humungus feast....
Well I'm British so I have it with boiling water, teabag and milk...the proper way :P Indian tea is called Masala tea in the UK and it's soooooo good. In greece (like turkey, north africa etc,) we don't put milk and it's more aromatic
K M Right, I've alerted M.I.5 and the queen about your outrageous statement. Hope you like prison food pal. K M yeah dude I enjoy that kind of tea a lot, but I'm also lazy lol
well im north african frm egypt & since we have been colonised most of our history i wouldn't know what it used to be but now we drink it black or with milk or with mint so nothing specific still...
milk in tea isn't the "proper" way lol its the bastardized form. good black teas should be flavorful, but not bitter/acidic to the point where you need milk in it - that is a result of the British "exporting" black teas through stealing a small handful of black tea plants and two chinese people lol. you cant selectively breed such a small gene pool, you got what you got, so you all ended up with acidic bitter black tea that needs milk. ive tried it and its nasty.
Sana, it's a similar situation with spicy food in our culture too. If it weren't for colonists trading South American peppers, briyani today would suck.
mansoor tanweer The history of how chili peppers were globally distributed is an amazing story in of itself. The Spanish brought them to North Africa during the wars against the Ottomans in 1540 to 1580, and the Arabs began trading them east to Persia and India
but now a days people even in northern provinces eat spicy food. i just visited Peshawar a couple of years ago where i ate biryani and it was spicy. biryani was not even popular in Punjab kpk and balochistan until the early 2000. we use to eat pulaos and other rice dishes. but today biryani and spicy foods are popular through out the country thanks to the muhajirs who brought a beautiful culture with them.
We call it Shahee . It is a very important part of our culture & is the first thing we offer to any visitor . It is also served after every meal . Me and my wife have kept this culture in the US . We spice it using cardomom . clover & cinnamon . We do not mix it with milk .
kashmir daily Heya, Mr. Kashmiri! North Indian over here. Hope you are doing well, Kashmir is often so troubled (I don't get _what_ our governments are doing to help, if anything).
kashmir daily I think Indian Government is to blame for a lot of it and I understand why Kashmiri citizens feel so against remaining with India. We gave you special status, but that has ended up excluding you from proper integration with rest of the nation. The government has meddled with your state elections a lot of times and I have never heard anyone from the centre acknowledge it, let alone apologise. I also am aware of - only a little though - of all the human rights violation AFSPA has caused by abusing their power, including many ugly cases of sexual assault. Where is your justice there? But there is also immense strategic importance to the area. I can see why India does not want to let go, for it will then make Pakistan taking over a strong possibility, making India very vulnerable. As for Kashmiri independence, I don't think powerhouses like India and Pakistan would ever let that happen. All this struggle over territory truly sucks and while I am trying to gather what I learnt from school and news, _you_ people are living it in reality. It is directly affecting you. I can't really understand your fear or situation no matter how hard I try. But I will do my best to keep aware of every territory's political stance. My parents, for example, are adamant on Kashmir being India's and only India's. But I don't want to ignore all the mistakes my gov. made out of some misplaced sense of 'patriotism'. That is all, I guess.
Dear Arunima Tiwari, I am agree with you. But the fact is that kashmir has more unemployment rate why, we have been targeted and murdered bet. economic growth is deteriorating, daily wages are more less, you wouldn't believe what conditions are here, we have been targeted outside kashmir on what they called love jihad and all that. Does not have became Indian government communal. Why is this so, after all we love our country. inspite of separate constitution. we are human we want peace, development but we are worsening and involved in new conflictual segments day by day.... And have hardly any choice of future. But we hope that good days will come soon..... Thanks.
kashmir daily I hope so too. I went on a college trip to Srinagar three years ago when tensions were high. I saw how stagnant the economy is and how scared the citizens are with my own eyes. I hope you guys find leaders who lead you out of this. Meanwhile, I will study up on all that I have been missing out on about J&K. I should know way more as an Indian.
How I make Chai ☕️ is sort of traditionally Indian with a dash of my own flair. I heat a pot of water with loose leaf black tea and cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, fennel, black pepper, cloves, anise and garam masala and bring to boil for a minute and then pour organic raw cow’s 🐄 milk and let it mix/heat and come to boil and then turn the heat down to medium heat for another minute or so before turning the heat off and serving.
Nice video, Sana.🍵 It's amazing how so many "common" things have such a rich, complicated history. ALSO: is it weird that as an SF native I was excited by the 04:12 point where you shop at Salama Halal on Geary (I can see Pharaohs in the background - I love their Cairo Smoked Sausage🥙)?
Well the British only used Tea for medicine until Catherine of Braganza introduced the afternoon tea habit. This fact is barely known and I don't understand why.. Maybe some ppl will get offended that the english were not the OGs 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Braganza
Java version of tea: the west side love to boil a bunch of it with water only, while the east side have to add a lot of rock sugar because it's a shame if a household don't have sugar they would consider it rude to serve tea plainly.
I think this video is misleading, China traded tea during the silk road period trough the whole of Asia. It was not due to colonial British that started the trade. The same with coffee, it was traded by Arabs to Turkey and Turkey traded it to Europe...
I once read somewhere that the Brits originally preferred coffee and only switched to tea in a big way when a blight struck the coffee plants in their colonies.
indian tea rule world. a indin start his day with a cup of tea. tea with milk. north east india, south india nilgiri and kerla. tea auction contact at culcutta. ( exchange) Tea is one of the industries, which by an Act of Parliament comes under the control of the Union Govt. The genesis of the Tea Board India dates back to 1903
no matter how you look at it, the ultimate history/culture of tea is in China. i felt like the whole thing about colonialism created tea was a bit out of the picture. now that tea is around the world we should look at the style of tea in it's own respective region, instead who invented it. great video anyways.
The etymology of tea can be traced back to the various Chinese pronunciations of the word. Nearly all the words for tea worldwide, fall into three broad groups: te, cha and chai, which reflected the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade from China to countries around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea
Hmmm I think its interesting that she used the word "diaspora" and maybe even problematic since this video isn't about people just from South Asia (there's literally an Algerian woman in the video). I think diaspora is a good word to indicate the connectedness of people from a region, but when you're talking about how tea is common thing across a lot of the not-white world, it doesn't really fit.
ALSO JUST TO LET YOU KNOW GYROS IS NOT GREEK IT IS TURKISH. THE FAMOUS ITALIAN ESPRESSO IS ALSO TURKISH!. ALDO FAMOUS PLIAF WHICH WE LOVE TO EAT IN AFGHANISTAN. PAKISTAN AND INDIA IS ALSO TURKISH
I don't get how the British made south Asians tea popular every culture always had tea so even I'm sure our ancestors used to also drink it afghans have their green tea Persians Arabs have their coffee
English stole tea plant from china. And in all over the world (except English) 茶（tea) pronounced in two way - cha or té, the two Chinese dialects the tea traders used.
Damm 8 minutes of video and 5 seconds of it to say who made tea. I don't understand why people in the west want to but everything through a brutal colonial/racist lense. In my country we eat a lot of food that came with the Ottomans when they invaded us (burek, sarma, baklave...) but we simply know that I doubt anyone would make a video on it.
Can't stand the word because in my language it means tea. I need to keep reminding myself that people aren't offering me tea (even if they did, the bastardization of milk in tea is unacceptable)
rahul well it's might be part of Hinduism that they worship cow's cricket player, snakes, Fire etc . Well about rommal picture it's my baby not your you should not be bother about it poor creature with narrow mind Indian
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I'm Somali and we drink shaah. It's a big part of our culture, everyday life, and out gatherings. It tastes a lot like chai and I'm certain we got it from South Asia. I'm from the North which was colonized by the British who brought over South Asians to work. They lived in that part of Somalia until the Civil War in the 80s. I think that's part of it but hundreds of years before that we traded often with South Asia and the Middle East so I think that's where we got it from.
That's true I remember I asked my uncle once to drink shaah and he said if you drink it you will know every secret in the world I actually believed it SOMALILAND FOREVER
No brother Qaat is big part of your culture, everyday life ;-)
All the admiration and reverence from a brother in Arabia.
@@williammarston1861 Not a brother and qaat is a cancer
@@liliebilie sister how do u make ur shaah?
I asked an India 'Walla' what the secret to his Chai was. He said that he used equal parts of water and milk. He also said that he boiled his milk before hand a few times to get it creamier. Delightful !!!
I have a entire pantry dedicated to all the different teas around the world from India, China, Japan, Russia, Middle East.
Love tea so much.
Chai should be brewed strong with fennel seeds and cardamon and a little ginger, topped with a generous amount of milk and boiled till it's sizzling. Lastly, I don't care if the British brought Chai here, our Chai here is so different and loudly represents our culture through the use of authentic spices
I'm chinese, I fell in love with masala chai the first time I made it, it was so much better than the instant powder ones, I'm very curious about Indian and Pakistani cuisine and culture. So far I've made Goan fish curry and Dal tadka. Love from China and Australia
Masala Chai is from India only
I am from Kenya and chai has been an integral part of the daily life of Kenyans including myself because of British Colonialism which brought Indian immigrants to Kenya to build a cross country railway in the mid 19th Century and with them came their amazing cuisine including chai. I came to the US for college in 93 and after about 10 years of relying on Starbucks chai 💋😫😝👎🏿 started making my own chai again and becoming a purist in terms of the spices used. I am a full-fledged Chai connoisseur/snob and only drink what I make with the 9 spices and fair trade black tea leaves I get from home 🤣🇰🇪
Most America tea is southern sweet tea. Not like chai.
totally professional some people call is chai
true . . . with ice and lemon wedges, no milk, lots of sugar, very thin black tea
America is a big place with lots of tea options. Most bottled tea is like southern sweet tea, but I think the most popular teas in southern california (where i’m from) are english/irish breakfast teas and taiwanese/east asian milk teas. I’d love to see a survey on this though :^)
@@ibrahimahmad3917 It's Ice Tea actually and no Chai is very clearly tea with milk and spices. That just is what it is.
@@justpreeth, cai (cay is the word for tea in Turkish) is just plain black tea with or without sugar in a lot of places worldwide.
"tea is, kinda, the result of empires clashing." ??? tea or cha already had thousands of years of history/culture before the colonists arrived...
They got too narrow viewpoint. I think they make conclusion first then derive hypothesis and proofs.
@@shankysays I think the context in which they were speaking made it clear that they meant "consumption of tea in cultures outside of mainland China", and that they were just saying "tea" for the sake of brevity, maybe they should have gone into greater depth on precolonial tea cultivation, or maybe that would have distracted from the focus of video. I could see either point argued, and I do think it is valid of Ruijter to complain about the video glossing over that part of tea's history, but I don't think it is fair to say that they were working backwards from their conclusions. Sorry to disagree.
I just know that a Persian PM hid the chai seeds in his cone and brought them to Iran
watching chai and samosa while its raining here in my city.
i know what i am having this evening.
i am tibetan , born in india . In my family we make both chai and butter tea( its tibetan tea ), and when there is guest we have both and server depending on what they want .
say indian
The word for tea, in China, “茶” which pronounces “chá”.
@Foreign Policy both
Interesting but 2 remarks :
- Using tomatoes in Italian cuisine is somehow irrelevant as an example of colonialism, because Italy never had colonies in South America, plus the tomatoes where not grown then to be sold in Europe, they were discovered there, seeds were taken and grown in Europe. So you don't need to colonize a place to bring some seeds back home.
- It is unfortunate that Taiwan is not mentioned, probably because its rich tea history is not because of colonialism but because of pure business development at least at first, then grew under Japanese colonization, so as it doesn't relate to AJ's American audience, it is not worth being mentioned....
Taste of tea depends on the procedure of making it,not everybody can make a good cup of tea.Besides if you can make chai from pure mik it tastes a lot better.Some people are lactose intolerant,so they can't really enjoy real chai at all(FACT-chai without milk is like smartphone without internet)>>>FYI--You guys didn't mention about the largest producer of chai in the world i.e ASSAM.
رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
Here in oman people are chai addict they cannot function without thier chai.
We make it with cardamom and Cinnamon or saffrons or ginger
And it tast amaaaazing 😋😋
Just black tea. Half raging boiling water. Half ice. Helps bring out a strong flavour quickly.
The best quality chai is not boiled in the pot. First you boil the water, then you take it off the heat, then you add the leaves. For even better quality, try a pour over brew. Steeping too long creates bitterness and off flavors. With pour over, you can have three to six infusions, with the second and third considered the highest quality.
You must be white.😂😂😂😂
This is actually incorrect in that Tamils a large south indian ethnic group had tea far before the brits arrvied due to historic ancenstral trade routes to china as well as indonesia and cambodia...Its not even called Chai (a north indian word) so quit stereotyping and over generalizing. Also you gloss over east India (the seven sisters) and their historic tea roots not all of india is north india some indians have been drinking tea far before brits arrived.
"Chai” is the Chinese word of Tea as well
Sana you presented very well thank you. I just wanted to add in some missing info and I hope I'm not wrong remembering the history. As you pointed out that initially tea was the elite drink before becoming a household treat, true but it wasn't after when British left that every poor peasants also started drinking tea. It was actually after the Boston tea party incident during the late 1800 that British Empire had a glut of tea and didn't know where to sell. At the same time their hold was weakening in China. So Thomas J Lipton hooked every household on tea drinking they went to every nooks and crannies and served free teas for a long time until people were hooked on tea and they all eventually became their consumers.
YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO MENTION FEW HISTORICAL POINTS. TEA WAS ALWAYS AVAILABLE IN AREA OF INDIA CHINA AND SRI LANKA
I’m technically Irish/Welsh/Scottish, but my family has been in America for so long that we don’t have much connection to our roots. So in attempts to get to know my own culture(s) and also in work dealing with the endangered language of Yurok and the surrounding culture, I’ve learned that one of the absolute easiest ways to learn a lot about a culture is food. It’s really cool that you can just follow the history of chai and find ways to explore so many key points of history, and so many cultures, little and big.
I am speaking from having been taught by Tibetan Buddhist monks, who have sweet tea and salty tea made with ghee . . . lots of milk . . . I think it is more a cold weather drink.
It is delicious. Made with milk, ghee, a little salt, black tea
Tibetan tea is SUPER different. Salty and buttery. And yet absolute awesomeness. I am sitting at a cafe in Delhi's Tibetan colony while typing this :D
mickey morgan is salty tea soup-like?
I'm sorry ik this is a serious video about the origins of tea and whatever but these two at 6:58 are just so adorable i mean look how he looks at her and then later he smiles at the camera it's just so cute.
6:00 that's incorrect. Chai was available even in 3rd class compartment of trains in colonial India. It might had started as a elites drink but it became commoners drink very early.
I just know we used to import the tea from india our history in Baghdad say the one a prince married a Indian princess just to get trade deal for tea
Chai -Samosa our breakfast combo
punjabi Muslims never worked on tea plantation
These are Assamese, Nepalese ,gharwal who worked in plantation
Always use whole organic milk (even a tbsp. of ghee), never let the tea boil, use cloves, anise seed, brown sugar or honey. Thanks for the cinnamon tip!
Tea don't grow in England.... So it's hard to believe it's a British thing.
And I'm here my whole life thinking Chai is a Swahili word from East Africa.
I guess colonialism really was EVERYWHERE
marvin mandela I told an indian frd that chai origined from China, he was so shocked and had to check it on google
It’s not always colonial. Cultures that acquired tea through the overland route from China knew it as a form of the Mandarin name ‘chá’ (茶). The Persians passed it on as ‘chay’ (چای) to the Russians, while the Arabs called it ‘shay’. Swahili acquired the name this way through traders from the Middle East, and not European colonials.
On the other hand, cultures that encountered Chinese tea through the sea trade knew it by the name in the dialect from the coastal province of Fujian: ‘te’. The Dutch acquired tea via Fujian, and carried the term to Europe. That’s why most European languages call tea by some version of ‘te’. The Portuguese, on the other hand, had their own Chinese port at Macao, where the ‘chá’ term was used. The Portuguese call tea ‘chá’.
This is actually incorrect in that Tamils a large south indian ethnic group had tea far before the brits arrvied due to historic ancenstral trade routes to china as well as indonesia and cambodia...Its not even called Chai (a north indian word) so quit stereotyping and over generalizing. Also you gloss over east India (the seven sisters) and their historic tea roots not all of india is north india some indians have been drinking tea far before brits arrived.
Rohan Misra it is colonialism at work because ppl tend to forget there were trade before the brits came
Debo Datta You keep saying this but produce no sources.
Tea was probably discovered in assam by a Brit called Alexander Wayne not related to Batman ..... Mr Wayne apparently was invited to a singfho tribe family for breakfast and they already knew about brewing tea . He liked it and told his mates and rest is history. It was in 1820s .
No. It was discovered in China
I didn't seriously drink tea until university. I blame my grandfather for this: he travelled with a Thermos full of tea almost everywhere. (My family is Jamaican, so I had both coffee and tea in my house growing up in equal measure.) Standard Jamaican tea is tea with evap milk and sugar -- basically British "builder's tea".
In Arabic tea is “Shai” closer to chai
It’s either black or with milk and it differs from chai in the use of cardamom an cinnamon sticks
And would sometimes use regular milk instead of evaporated milk
Same for iranian tea, tho I've barely seen anyone putting milk in their black tea
Take some water in a pan and start to heat it.put some ginger and leave it until it gets boiled..when ut starts to boil put the tea leaves..and after 2-4minutes..pour it in a cup ,,,cut a lime and pour the juice to the tea....so helpful and soothing to your stomach after having a humungus feast....
My uncle's Turkish tea is my favorite!
Well I'm British so I have it with boiling water, teabag and milk...the proper way :P
Indian tea is called Masala tea in the UK and it's soooooo good.
In greece (like turkey, north africa etc,) we don't put milk and it's more aromatic
gingergreek once a German told me she doesn’t drink beer from can so make me say I don’t drink tea from tea bag 😂😂 so competitive
nah brah
the proper way is having loose leaf tea in an infuser and boiling it. No additives no nothing.
K M
Right, I've alerted M.I.5 and the queen about your outrageous statement. Hope you like prison food pal.
K M yeah dude I enjoy that kind of tea a lot, but I'm also lazy lol
well im north african frm egypt & since we have been colonised most of our history i wouldn't know what it used to be but now we drink it black or with milk or with mint so nothing specific still...
milk in tea isn't the "proper" way lol its the bastardized form. good black teas should be flavorful, but not bitter/acidic to the point where you need milk in it - that is a result of the British "exporting" black teas through stealing a small handful of black tea plants and two chinese people lol. you cant selectively breed such a small gene pool, you got what you got, so you all ended up with acidic bitter black tea that needs milk. ive tried it and its nasty.
We Indonesian drinks tea with a lot of sugar
Assam Tea is the best in the world 😍😍
Hargish Borah yes
Yeah 😍😍
Best tea leaves, I've heard.
Unfortunately, this North Indian over here can't afford it. 😂
Yeah Arunima 😂
And we called it cha
Chai the leaves 🍁 itself came from India and British adopted the tea because they used to trade with the Indians.
NOPE the leaves is actually FROM China. The British took It to be planted in the subcontinent
Sana, it's a similar situation with spicy food in our culture too. If it weren't for colonists trading South American peppers, briyani today would suck.
mansoor tanweer The history of how chili peppers were globally distributed is an amazing story in of itself. The Spanish brought them to North Africa during the wars against the Ottomans in 1540 to 1580, and the Arabs began trading them east to Persia and India
Ooooh, I didn't know that. It would be cool to see.
but now a days people even in northern provinces eat spicy food. i just visited Peshawar a couple of years ago where i ate biryani and it was spicy. biryani was not even popular in Punjab kpk and balochistan until the early 2000. we use to eat pulaos and other rice dishes. but today biryani and spicy foods are popular through out the country thanks to the muhajirs who brought a beautiful culture with them.
I make chai in a stockpot. cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, vanilla bean, black tea, and sometimes i add crushed hazelnut on the top. it's good
Just the Iced Tea in summer make the US a huge tea consumer.
I have this amazing friend who introduced me to the tea world
We call it Shahee . It is a very important part of our culture & is the first thing we offer to any visitor . It is also served after every meal . Me and my wife have kept this culture in the US . We spice it using cardomom . clover & cinnamon . We do not mix it with milk .
Chai is nothing but habit of our daily life in kashmir also... And British effect
kashmir daily Heya, Mr. Kashmiri! North Indian over here. Hope you are doing well, Kashmir is often so troubled (I don't get _what_ our governments are doing to help, if anything).
Hiii.. What about you, what do you know and think about kashmir_political perspective.... Geographical... Etc.
kashmir daily I think Indian Government is to blame for a lot of it and I understand why Kashmiri citizens feel so against remaining with India. We gave you special status, but that has ended up excluding you from proper integration with rest of the nation. The government has meddled with your state elections a lot of times and I have never heard anyone from the centre acknowledge it, let alone apologise. I also am aware of - only a little though - of all the human rights violation AFSPA has caused by abusing their power, including many ugly cases of sexual assault. Where is your justice there?
But there is also immense strategic importance to the area. I can see why India does not want to let go, for it will then make Pakistan taking over a strong possibility, making India very vulnerable. As for Kashmiri independence, I don't think powerhouses like India and Pakistan would ever let that happen.
All this struggle over territory truly sucks and while I am trying to gather what I learnt from school and news, _you_ people are living it in reality. It is directly affecting you. I can't really understand your fear or situation no matter how hard I try. But I will do my best to keep aware of every territory's political stance. My parents, for example, are adamant on Kashmir being India's and only India's. But I don't want to ignore all the mistakes my gov. made out of some misplaced sense of 'patriotism'.
That is all, I guess.
Dear Arunima Tiwari, I am agree with you. But the fact is that kashmir has more unemployment rate why, we have been targeted and murdered bet. economic growth is deteriorating, daily wages are more less, you wouldn't believe what conditions are here, we have been targeted outside kashmir on what they called love jihad and all that. Does not have became Indian government communal. Why is this so, after all we love our country. inspite of separate constitution. we are human we want peace, development but we are worsening and involved in new conflictual segments day by day.... And have hardly any choice of future. But we hope that good days will come soon..... Thanks.
kashmir daily I hope so too. I went on a college trip to Srinagar three years ago when tensions were high. I saw how stagnant the economy is and how scared the citizens are with my own eyes. I hope you guys find leaders who lead you out of this. Meanwhile, I will study up on all that I have been missing out on about J&K. I should know way more as an Indian.
How I make Chai ☕️ is sort of traditionally Indian with a dash of my own flair. I heat a pot of water with loose leaf black tea and cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, fennel, black pepper, cloves, anise and garam masala and bring to boil for a minute and then pour organic raw cow’s 🐄 milk and let it mix/heat and come to boil and then turn the heat down to medium heat for another minute or so before turning the heat off and serving.
In Marocco tea is also a big part of our culture but our tea isn’t with milk we have green tea with mint or Chiba tea
Nice video, Sana.🍵 It's amazing how so many "common" things have such a rich, complicated history.
ALSO: is it weird that as an SF native I was excited by the 04:12 point where you shop at Salama Halal on Geary (I can see Pharaohs in the background - I love their Cairo Smoked Sausage🥙)?
BuddyL what is cairo smoked sausage
Well the British only used Tea for medicine until Catherine of Braganza introduced the afternoon tea habit.
This fact is barely known and I don't understand why.. Maybe some ppl will get offended that the english were not the OGs 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Braganza
ALSO TEA WAS READILY AVAILABLE IN AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA AS WELL
she really said put a cup with a tea bag in the microwave... does that shid even boil?
Java version of tea: the west side love to boil a bunch of it with water only, while the east side have to add a lot of rock sugar because it's a shame if a household don't have sugar they would consider it rude to serve tea plainly.
Indonesia like tea
Tea is love
Tea is Life
I think this video is misleading, China traded tea during the silk road period trough the whole of Asia. It was not due to colonial British that started the trade. The same with coffee, it was traded by Arabs to Turkey and Turkey traded it to Europe...
joimy95 the brits basically dumped all the opium to China and started a war cuz they want tea that bad and China want nothing from them
Lisa Ya-Han Chang true brits like otger euros were true a holes.
I am Sudanese and TEA IS LIFE AND I CAN NEVER GO A WEEK WITHOUT A CUP OF TEA
I once read somewhere that the Brits originally preferred coffee and only switched to tea in a big way when a blight struck the coffee plants in their colonies.
Jigme Choedzin Balasidis at current the Brits drink more coffee than tea.
So you're saying they're reverting to their old ways? That may well be. :-)
Tea is to drinks as Football is to sports...
indian tea rule world. a indin start his day with a cup of tea. tea with milk. north east india, south india nilgiri and kerla. tea auction contact at culcutta. ( exchange) Tea is one of the industries, which by an Act of Parliament comes under the control of the Union Govt. The genesis of the Tea Board India dates back to 1903
I Still think chai has more South Asian roots instead of colonialism, as it was changed by the locals, by adding spices to it.
no matter how you look at it, the ultimate history/culture of tea is in China. i felt like the whole thing about colonialism created tea was a bit out of the picture. now that tea is around the world we should look at the style of tea in it's own respective region, instead who invented it. great video anyways.
I already knew this. Did anyone else find it profound?
The etymology of tea can be traced back to the various Chinese pronunciations of the word. Nearly all the words for tea worldwide, fall into three broad groups: te, cha and chai, which reflected the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade from China to countries around the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea
And yes of course Masala chai is from Desi Land
I want the apartment
Greeks love the chai. They think it has medicinal properties. My mom used to give it to us if we were sick
For me, the association between Chai tea and Starbucks is stronger than Chai tea and Asian culture...
Can we please appreciate Moroccan tea. Like. It’s literally LIFE 😭🇲🇦
No
Hmmm I think its interesting that she used the word "diaspora" and maybe even problematic since this video isn't about people just from South Asia (there's literally an Algerian woman in the video). I think diaspora is a good word to indicate the connectedness of people from a region, but when you're talking about how tea is common thing across a lot of the not-white world, it doesn't really fit.
ALSO JUST TO LET YOU KNOW GYROS IS NOT GREEK IT IS TURKISH. THE FAMOUS ITALIAN ESPRESSO IS ALSO TURKISH!. ALDO FAMOUS PLIAF WHICH WE LOVE TO EAT IN AFGHANISTAN. PAKISTAN AND INDIA IS ALSO TURKISH
The woman with the turban and glasses said it best.
I learned a lot from this video!
I don't get how the British made south Asians tea popular every culture always had tea so even I'm sure our ancestors used to also drink it afghans have their green tea Persians Arabs have their coffee
Who the hell makes chai by boiling tebags in a pot, damn uncultured af
Who remembers chai wala Arshad Khna
A Canadian version, Chia tea, ground cardamon from shells, anise, and a tea spoon of maple syrup and milk....Mmmm...Kman
Chai just means tea right? When we say chai we are just talking about tea or are they referring to masala chai with milk, spices, sugar etc.?
Chai - Persian
In my culture (Armenia) we also use tea to cure flu. Tea with honey.
People wonder why i drink tea instead of water when im thirsty,my answer is im indian
*TEA IS INDIA*
Darjeeling tea is the best tea in the world
I guess chai is Indian word
Traditional Tea was invented in China. This Chai form of tea is definitely not from China.
Ratnadeep Ray it’s also the Swahili word for tea. 😀
no it is from Chinese
English stole tea plant from china. And in all over the world (except English) 茶（tea) pronounced in two way - cha or té, the two Chinese dialects the tea traders used.
Chinese
Indians invented chai Chinese invented tea and British invented tea etiquettes
Eh... atleast watch the video before commenting...
Agasthya Rana 😂😂😂😂😂
Amit das Didn't know I cracked a joke haha
Ziggy Tafari you living in a dream wake up
Hahahah this is gold
1:55 how did he react when he found out his parents identity and the retention of his culture wasn't exactly their culture?
Damn the girl can talk fast lol 3:15
Yes Chai is Translation of Tea in Hindi
And of course the Queen of Chai tea is Green Cardamon (anybody know what to do with black cardamon?)
Damm 8 minutes of video and 5 seconds of it to say who made tea. I don't understand why people in the west want to but everything through a brutal colonial/racist lense. In my country we eat a lot of food that came with the Ottomans when they invaded us (burek, sarma, baklave...) but we simply know that I doubt anyone would make a video on it.
FEW OLDEST TEA COMPANIES ARE!. CYLONE TEA. BROOKBOND AND LIPTON
I’m afghani and I’m pretty sure chai means tea
and she is from lahore
basically punjabi landlord how she suffered from colonialism?
Idc where it's from it just taste good .
Love me some chai. Pakistani here
The best tea is Kashmiri pink tea by far. And just plain cha.
@- king- yep
Can't stand the word because in my language it means tea. I need to keep reminding myself that people aren't offering me tea (even if they did, the bastardization of milk in tea is unacceptable)
I'm Drinking Chai while watching this
NATO... YORKSHIRE Tea Bag, Milk, 2 Sugars. Ta very much duck.
is that “sooji ka halva” at
2：06.
you are way too desi in a foreign land.kudos.
Well sister I came to know now that you are from Pakistan it's make us proud keep it up sana Saeed 👍
Fida Bugti
She was pakistani now she's American. Like We all were indians before pakistan but now pakistanis.
Abu Ahmed I'm not sure who this "we" is but a lot of us pakistanis never were indian before
rahul ok fine anything else you want to say ?
rahul well it's might be part of Hinduism that they worship cow's cricket player, snakes, Fire etc . Well about rommal picture it's my baby not your you should not be bother about it poor creature with narrow mind Indian
rahul anything else you want to add?