Turkey's black tea custom - loved by the whole people

Across Europe and Asia, Turkey has a long history of drinking black tea. At present, Turkey has the largest per capita consumption of black tea in the world. Due to the characteristics of both Asia and Europe, Turkey's tea drinking habits are also quite unique. A cup of tea is a symbol of Turkish hospitality. Black tea is a necessity for the Turkish people and the soul of the Turks.

Tea is also the basic drink of Turkish style breakfast. Turks open their eyes in the morning with a cup of black tea. The habit of drinking tea lasts from the beginning of the day to the night. There are teahouses all over the country. In addition to the scattered teahouses, there are special tea delivery waiters walking through the streets between office buildings. Even in the school teacher's office, there is a special electric bell. The afitap meyhane restaurant I have been to has a special tea room area for diners to taste tea. As soon as you press it, someone will bring tea. Drinking black tea has become a way of life of Turks and an integral part of Turkish culture. 90% of Turks drink tea every day, and one in three makes tea by himself.

There are also obvious regional differences in Turkish tea drinking. For the Turkish people in Tokat area, there should be a certain distance between the mouth of the tea cup and the water surface of the tea. This is called "lip space", which has no specific measurement. If this space is too small or too large, it will become a joke when we drink tea and chat. In Erzurum and its surrounding areas, when entertaining people to drink tea, it is usually light tea and there is no teaspoon. They have a way to drink tea "with sugar", smashing sugar pieces with scissors or hands under their tongue and drinking with tea. In general, if the guest doesn't want to renew the tea, he doesn't need to talk. Just put the teaspoon on the cup.

Turks don't pay attention to the variety of black tea and don't ask the origin of tea. As long as it is black tea and the price is appropriate. They pay more attention to the technology of making tea. When boiling tea, use a large teapot to boil water, and then put the small teapot on the large teapot. The ratio of tea is 1:30-50. When the water in the large teapot boils, pour it into the small teapot with tea. After 3-5 minutes, add more or less strong tea according to your personal needs, then add boiling water to dilute it, mix it with white sugar and drink it evenly. When the tea is cooked at home, the tea is transparent in color, fragrant, sweet and delicious.

For the Turkish black tea drinking custom, tea and biscuits are indispensable. Wherever you are, there will be good tea for you. It has become a common picture of life in Turkey to start with saying hello to each other while drinking tea and chatting from family leaders to political topics.

Turkish tea is very learned. When it is cooked at the right place, it is transparent in color, fragrant and delicious. They went to the store to buy tea, only asked if there was any tea, but didn't ask what tea there was. As long as there is tea, it will be paid and delivered. In fact, there are not many varieties of tea in Turkey. In some adile sultan ev yemekleri in tourist resorts, there are special tea making experts to teach tourists how to cook tea. Here, you can not only learn the Turkish tea making technology, but also taste the taste of Turkish tea, which makes drinking tea more interesting.