I thought I would steer this thread back onto tea for a minute.
A few years ago I was working in Vietnam, on the Mekong Delta.
I moved about quite a bit and i found that the bottom-end hotels would always leave these gigantic flasks of hot water and a pot of loose leaf tea, in your room.
In some of the more upmarket places, you were expected to pay for it, but the cheap hotels nearly always gave it away for free.
It was tremdously welcome, because the humidity in that part of the country is intense. It makes you want to drink all the time and when you move, you can feel the moisture just getting drawn out of your body by the heat.
When I got back to my room, I was always so thirsty. I used pull the curtains closed, put the air conditioning or the ceiling fan on and gulp down this tea which always tasted like the best thing in the world.
I believe the simple act of putting this tea and hot water in the room everyday shows true hospitality.
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""All my friends are soldiers
and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce"
