The Very Clean Teapot
Some years ago my wife and I went away for the weekend; my mother stayed at the house and minded the kids while we were away. Not long after we returned we noticed that the inside of our teapot, which was normally tea stained almost black, was now gleaming white. My mother had a tendency to be ‘helpful’ in unwanted ways and we were rather annoyed that she’d cleaned the teapot, as we quite liked it how it was. Some time later, It came out in conversation that there was more to the cleaning of the teapot than we had imagined.When the subject came up, my mother was all too eager to describe the ingenuity she had demonstrated; her pride in which was apparent in her tone of voice. It was my mother’s practice to soak her false teeth in bleach overnight, and, seeing an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, she cleverly used the teapot as the receptacle in which to do it. By the time we eventually heard this story we had, of course, made numerous cups of tea in that teapot and the implications were very quick to strike us both, but, to our credit, we somehow managed not to let our faces betray our true feelings about her thoughtful deed.
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I have a glass teapot in a nice shape to make oolang tea in. It does stain glass as you have to leave to stand for ages, then can brew the leaves twice more, so tooty peg powder keeps the glass spotless and CHINA cups too ha ha
Hiya Molly
I have a glass teapot too, but I tend to make tea in the mug when I'm by myself.
Harbaaaaaaaaaal
You'll stay for a cuppa, won't you?
Few months ago, I went back there and retrieved a couple of things.
I remember this teapot. My late grandma used to make Chinese tea and would drink it throughout the day.
She would also at times, pour some hot Chinese tea into her bowl of white rice. She was a Hakka ( one of the many Chinese dialects and not to be mistaken with the Kiwi’s Haka ritual
These are now in possession and there’s no way to find out what have had been inside the teapot before
Har, do you think the main reason was to clean the teapot or was it just a handy receptacle for the teeth?
This my personal favourite version of a light tea
My late grandpa’s favourite. He had always preferred dark tea.
My son’s favourite
Another personal favourite of mine.
The whole family all-time fav!
Molly, as you can see, there’s no green tea in the list
But MiMi loves loves loves Japanese matcha ( green tea ) ice-cream!!
Pu ehr is used for weight loss here
I prefer black tea . But i always have other teas in the house. Oolong, white, jasmine, mint, chamomile, etc
I’ve been drinking pu-er my whole life and the pounds haven’t really gone anywhere
Oolong sounds like ‘blur’ or ‘unfocused’ in Cantonese
See the positives...be glad she remembered to remove the teeth before ye made the first pot of tea.
Happy xmas, have a good one
It's affecting your metabolism in the opposite way
It couldn't possibly be the matcha icecream
If you ever EVER, come across a Family Mart ( Japanese convenient store franchise chain ) anywhere in the world, please please please give the Matcha ice-cream a try?
Personal record- 3 of these at one go!
I've made icecream before I've a feeling that that green colour is fake though . So mine wouldn't look the same
Fake just like MiMi
MiMi’s getting ready to go out and have breakfast with my girlfriends. It’s nice to be back in my hometown...nice to be pampered by my girlfriends...
Good night, Molly
If anyone is interested this is an excellent article on local teas grown in Anhui.
Happy Xmas to you too.