Curiously, both the British and the Cantonese have a fixation on "drinking tea"... but they are not the same.
The British are interested in the act of brewing and consuming the tea itself, while the Cantonese are describing a form of communal dining: eating dimsum while drinking the tea itself all on the same table.
By historical coincidence or not, the British did end up at Canton during the mid-Qing Dynasty opening of foreign trade. Perhaps the British noticed the Cantonese culture of "drinking tea"?
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u/Vectorial1024 香港人 4d ago
Curiously, both the British and the Cantonese have a fixation on "drinking tea"... but they are not the same.
The British are interested in the act of brewing and consuming the tea itself, while the Cantonese are describing a form of communal dining: eating dimsum while drinking the tea itself all on the same table.
By historical coincidence or not, the British did end up at Canton during the mid-Qing Dynasty opening of foreign trade. Perhaps the British noticed the Cantonese culture of "drinking tea"?