Tea is a beverage that is popular all over the world. With its unique taste, aroma, and nutritional benefits, drinking tea is widely popular all over the world, including England, China, Japan, and even Thailand. The way tea is served in each country is different because the appearance, presentation, and serving of tea each time require delicacy in brewing. The environment for drinking tea may need to enhance the aesthetics of drinking with plants and flowers to relieve stress from work. The shop should not allow the smell of food to interfere with the aroma of the tea. The quality of the container used for drinking tea also has a significant effect on the level of deliciousness and the impression of the drinker.
Serving in a rough and thick ceramic cup will create a very different effect when compared to the same tea served in fine porcelain, bone china or glass. Or the presentation of tea that many people may forget to think about is the presentation in three aspects: sight, smell and taste, so that the guest can experience it through the senses. Some shops therefore have different presentation styles, such as letting the customer drip the tea themselves, serving the whole teapot to make the tea set, which is another element that makes the customer’s photo look more delicious.
However, if any shop wants to serve tea in cups to customers, it is recommended to brew it fresh and hot every time and increase the enjoyment of drinking tea for customers by walking over to pour tea for customers at the table. This will allow customers to clearly experience the aroma of the tea while pouring it, better than pouring it from the back of the shop. It takes a long time to bring it to serve customers, which is a pity that the aesthetics of drinking tea are reduced.
If you still don’t have an idea about what kind of tea to serve, try to find out what style of tea your shop has.
- Serving tea in the English style: The English love drinking black tea, which is one of the most popular teas in the world. It can be served straight from a glass, but if you want to experience the true English tea experience, you should choose the right teaware, including a teapot (Chinese or ceramic), teacups with saucers, sugar bowl, creamer, kettle, cups for discarding leftover tea or tea leaves, and snack plates.
British tea time usually starts around 4pm. If the shop wants to serve an Afternoon Tea set that serves tea with snacks, tea can be served anytime from 2pm to 5pm. Traditional afternoon tea is often served with small sandwiches, scones and a variety of pastries such as almond shortbread, cheesecake, macarons, biscuits or banana cake.
If you find a shop that wants to serve it with milk, sugar, or lemon, it is recommended to arrange them separately in the tea set so that customers can have fun and experience adding different ingredients to achieve the taste they like. However, it is not recommended to add lemon and milk at the same time because the citric acid of the lemon will cause the protein in the milk to harden into lumps. The recommended order is to pour the tea first, add sugar, and then gently place the lemon on the tea last.
In addition to Afternoon Tea, there is also High Tea, which is popularly enjoyed from around 5 pm to 9 pm. The food served with tea at this time is heavier than Afternoon Tea, such as a hot dish, bread, potatoes, vegetables, cheese, meat, stew, Welsh muffins, pies or omelettes.
If your shop is an English tea shop, then offering Afternoon Tea and High Tea as a set menu is an interesting way to attract customers.
- Japanese style tea serving. I believe many people are already familiar with the Japanese style of serving, which emphasizes the simplicity of the design of the serving containers. The snacks that are popularly served are also small snacks called wagashi, which Japanese people like to finish eating before serving the tea. However, if a shop wants to add some Japanese style, there may be a small corner of the shop or at the counter bar that shows the traditional Japanese tea brewing ceremony using cha-chaku to scoop the tea powder, cha-sen to beat the tea powder to dissolve, and rotating the tea cup before drinking, as we often see in Japanese travel programs.
Some shops, if they are not very knowledgeable about tea culture, often play Japanese-style music or may have the sound of soft flowing water to help customers feel more relaxed.
So, how do you serve tea at your shop? Have you forgotten the important points that should not be overlooked of the tea identity? Try spending some free time, enjoy your favorite tea, you might get an idea to present tea in your own style ^^
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