Lately, I have watched a TV travelling programme about Africa, Morocco. It talks about the Arabic cultures, history and cuisines. One thing drew me attention was the Arabic Mint Tea. It is because I have tried once when I travelled in North Africa. The taste of this mint tea was extremely sweet lol.
How to make Arabic Mint Tea?
1) Clean the tea with boiling water to remove the dust from shipping and to make tea less bitter; Remove rinsed water;
2) Put cleaned tea into the boiling water and boil it for further several minutes;
3) Add Sugar and fresh mint in it and Mix them into a teapot with a long, curved spout; ( You can put the suger in step 2 but not in step 3, it is up to you lol)
The traditional curved spout allows tea to be poured into tiny glasses from a height of approximately half a meter to form a foamy head. Then, it returned once/ twice to the teapot for a good mix. ( It sounds similar to our chinese tradition of tea culture. I will write about it in the next post.)
P.S. I found that it is interesting to know about Arabic countries, it is a mystery and I would like to explore a bit more about it~



It is an interesting way to serve tea. Over here when you buy lassi, the person ping pongs the lassi from one glass to the other. can’t properly explain it but he kinda pours it from one glass to the other from a considerable distance and back again [both glasses in his hand]. They say that it makes the lassi tastier.
I had a friend in Egypt [Alexandria to be precise] who used to say that despite all the heat the people there are avid tea lovers. I have made it my mission to find a region where people hate tea.. I’m failing miserably.