#Making a cuppa full
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Thanks for reading us – we value your continuing interest and our connection with you.īut as our readers increasingly move to digital, we have to keep up with them.Īs I’m sure you’ll appreciate, there are costs involved in doing what we do for you. Ī message from Travel Editor Stephen Scourfield. This is an edited version of the original, full-length story, which you can read here. It is certainly worth two nights of a visit to Sri Lanka. This is one of three main tea-growing types and regions in Sri Lanka, with low-grown teas between sea level and 600m, and mid-grown from 600m to 1200m.īut it is to the high country that we visitors tend to come, to stay in plantation bungalows, to see the tea plucking and processing, and to enjoy the bed tea. Making your perfect cup of chai is probably a lot easier than you think Check out the simple 5 step instructions below, and youll be a master chai walla. It is the tradition and part of the culture to request “bed tea” before retiring, and to be brought a tray with a teapot, cups, saucers and silver spoons, and some of Sri Lanka’s finest in the morning.įor travellers who come to enjoy the beaches, shops and sights of Colombo, and then venture into the Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka, from Anuradhapura on its northern point to Polonaruwa in the east and south-west to Kandy, mixing in a visit to the high tea country is a nice shift and good addition.įor a start, high-grown teas like cool and moisture and to be above 1200m, which means a predictably refreshing climate. It is a coming together of plant and humans in a sweet brew.Īnd, just at this moment, that brew is being brought into my bungalow. Let the rock dry then carefully tear the paper cup off over a piece of wax paper. Pour the sugar water mixture slowly into the cup of sand and gravel until it is moistened. Stir in 5 spoonfuls of sugar until it is dissolved. The tea of Sri Lanka is taken seriously, as it should be.įor it is the result of the minerals of this hilly landscape, so often with its head in the clouds, of the climate, the sweet rain, cool nights, and of human experience and the work of human hands. Fill another cup with a teaspoon of water. In the high tea country of Sri Lanka, the very thought of quickly dunking a teabag in a mug of hot water, slopping in milk and slurping it down, is, well, downright sacrilegious. Tradition and artistry unite, writes STEPHEN SCOURFIELD. All I want, of course, is a nice cup of tea. Our World Making a cuppa is serious business By Stephen Scourfield Tuesday, 10 March 2020 Share.
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