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  • 1,890 meters (6,200 feet) above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka's Hill Country district of Nuwara Eliya, women tea pickers bend over trees to harvest Ceylon tea leaves that are taken to the white building on the left for processing. A carpet of velvety green tea bushes stretch into the far distance. This is the heart of the island's tea industry but was a pleasure retreat of the European planters due to its temperate English climate that produces the finest leaves for the country's economy. Teas from this highest region are described as the champagne of Ceylon teas. The leaf is gathered all year round but the finest teas are made from that plucked in January and February. The best teas of the area give a rich, golden, excellent quality liquor that is smooth, bright, and delicately perfumed.
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  • Tea cup with English Breakfast Tea on orange background.
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  • Tea cup with English Breakfast Tea on orange background.
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  • Tea cup with English Breakfast Tea on orange background.
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  • A team of English tea-tasters employed by the tea company Lyons sample different blends for the PG Tips brand in the City of London, England UK. With variously-sourced teas from tea estate plantations, they smell, touch, sip, slurp then spit the hot drink out into a spittoon rather than swallow it many times repeatedly. Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day and world tea production is approximately 3.2 million tonnes a year. Kenya is the largest producer with Sri Lanka a close second. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time depending on season.
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  • Tea cup with English Breakfast Tea on orange background.
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  • Tea cup with English Breakfast Tea on orange background.
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  • Waiter serving tea at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • It is tea 4 o'clock and time for cream tea at the Westbury hotel in central London. Served by a waiter who pours from a silver pot into china cups, three ladies enjoy the afternoon after a day's shopping in nearby shopping streets. The decor is classically dark English wood and the tablecloth is crisply white with a scones with jam and sponges.
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  • Waiter serving tea at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Waiter serving tea at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Female friends having tea in a tea shop in the old Moorish area of Albaicin, Granada, Spain. El Albayzín (also Albaicín or El Albaicín) is the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, that retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past. It was declared a world heritage site in 1984.
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  • Traditional Chinese dancers perform at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_C_1.jpg
  • Female compare in her red dress at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • A young member of the audience watches the show at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Customers sit enjoying the show, applauding and shouting at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Customers sit enjoying the show, applauding and shouting at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Customers sit enjoying the show, applauding and shouting at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Customers sit enjoying the show, applauding and shouting at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_R_1.jpg
  • Kung fu performer warming up backstage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Exterior showing large lit up dragons outside Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_N_1.jpg
  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
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  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AN_...jpg
  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AM_...jpg
  • Acrobats prepare for a plate spinning routine back stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AL_...jpg
  • Traditional Kunqu opera performer back stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AJ_...jpg
  • Traditional Chinese dancers perform at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AG_...jpg
  • Traditional Chinese dancers perform at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AF_...jpg
  • Traditional Chinese dancers perform at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AE_...jpg
  • Female compare in her red dress at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AD_...jpg
  • Customers sit enjoying the show, applauding and shouting at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AC_...jpg
  • Customers sit enjoying the show, applauding and shouting at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AB_...jpg
  • Exterior showing large lit up dragons outside Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_A_1.jpg
  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AP_...jpg
  • Traditional Kunqu opera performer prepares to go on stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AK_...jpg
  • Acrobats perform a plate spinning routine in stage at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_L_1.jpg
  • Female compare in her red dress at Laoshe teahouse on Qianmenxi Dajie Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing, China. The teahouse was founded in 1988 and provides an antique-flavour styled environment, where you can watch performances from folk arts and drama while enjoying famous teas. Crowds of people come here to experience the performances which range from acrobats to traditional singing etc. All while being served tea by waiters in traditional clothes. The atmosphere is one of fun and energy as the people become very involved and animated with the performances.
    20120531laoshe tea house beijing_AI_...jpg
  • The Classic Car Boot Sale at the Southbank Centre, South Bank, London, UK. Vintage cars, fashion and style assemble together to celebrate all things classic from the 1940s to 1960s. Performers do a song and dance routine about tea, dressed in cup and saucer outifts.
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  • The Classic Car Boot Sale at the Southbank Centre, South Bank, London, UK. Vintage cars, fashion and style assemble together to celebrate all things classic from the 1940s to 1960s. Performers do a song and dance routine about tea, dressed in cup and saucer outifts.
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  • The Classic Car Boot Sale at the Southbank Centre, South Bank, London, UK. Vintage cars, fashion and style assemble together to celebrate all things classic from the 1940s to 1960s. Performers do a song and dance routine about tea, dressed in cup and saucer outifts.
    20140315_south bank tea performance_...jpg
  • The Classic Car Boot Sale at the Southbank Centre, South Bank, London, UK. Vintage cars, fashion and style assemble together to celebrate all things classic from the 1940s to 1960s. Performers do a song and dance routine about tea, dressed in cup and saucer outifts.
    20140315_south bank tea performance_...jpg
  • The Classic Car Boot Sale at the Southbank Centre, South Bank, London, UK. Vintage cars, fashion and style assemble together to celebrate all things classic from the 1940s to 1960s. Performers do a song and dance routine about tea, dressed in cup and saucer outifts.
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  • '400 year old' tea trees in Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority woman with freshly picked tea leaves in Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • Tea leaves drying in the sun, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • '400 year old' tea trees in Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • Tea leaves drying in the sun, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • Tea leaves drying in the sun, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority woman with freshly picked tea leaves in Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Phongsaly is famous for its tea and the ancient Komaen tea plantations are unique in the region. Its 48,378 trees are spread over 69 hectares, producing organic leaves which are rich in substances that are much appreciated both locally and in China. Tea is the main economic activity in Komaen, every family has its plantations and everyone takes part in the harvest. The famous '400 year old' Komaen tea is made into tea cigars when the leaves have not been sold to local tea manufacturers.
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  • Human tea bags protest outside Sainsbury’s AGM to highlight concern over supermarket’s decision to replace Fairtrade tea on July 5th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Campaigners dressed up as tea bags protest in front of a giant teapot as shareholders arrive for Sainsbury’s annual general meeting. The human tea bags’ message says ‘Save Fairtrade Tea’. The stunt by Oxfam and CAFOD is part of a campaign launched by a coalition of charities.  One of the main concerns is that farmers and workers who produce ‘Fairly Traded’ tea for Sainsbury’s will no longer have direct control over how they spend the premium – an additional payment on the basic price intended to benefit them. Instead, they will have to apply to a board set up by Sainsbury’s in London. London. United Kingdom.
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  • Luo Ming Wei (on left), tea factory owner purchases directly from  tea plantation owner A Hua and husband their most recent harvest, after carefully inpecting it for its quality.  Having  freshly cut the tea leaves, scorched, dried and bagged them A Hua and husband are  seen weighing and selling  their production.  They, as most of the Chinese economy  are being paid for its supply in cash, Zha Lu Village, Yunnan Province,  bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her family tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A female worker sorts and grades the High Grown unblended Ceylon Tea at the Glenloch tea factory in Katukitula, Sri Lanka. Grading is the last main stage in tea production. Picking, semidrying, rolling, drying, cleaning, fermenting are the 6 stages that proceed it. Many of the surrounding Tea factories were built in the last century, as the British planter, James Taylor in 1867, introduced tea to Sri Lanka. The Glen Loch Tea Factory still uses some British-made machinery, which is over 100 years old.
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  • Human tea bags protest outside Sainsbury’s AGM to highlight concern over supermarket’s decision to replace Fairtrade tea on July 5th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Campaigners dressed up as tea bags protest in front of a giant teapot as shareholders arrive for Sainsbury’s annual general meeting. The human tea bags’ message says ‘Save Fairtrade Tea’. The stunt by Oxfam and CAFOD is part of a campaign launched by a coalition of charities.  One of the main concerns is that farmers and workers who produce ‘Fairly Traded’ tea for Sainsbury’s will no longer have direct control over how they spend the premium – an additional payment on the basic price intended to benefit them. Instead, they will have to apply to a board set up by Sainsbury’s in London. London. United Kingdom.
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  • Tea plantation in the Phunoi village of Ban Phou Soum, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For a long time, Komaen was the only important tea plantation in the province. However, since the 1990’s when the government decided to put an end to slash and burn rice and opium growing, tea was developed as a commercial crop. The Chinese demand for tea was great, and so tea became an important resource for Phongsaly province.
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  • Weeding around the tea bushes in the Phunoi village of Ban Phou Soum, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For a long time, Komaen was the only important tea plantation in the province. However, since the 1990’s when the government decided to put an end to slash and burn rice and opium growing, tea was developed as a commercial crop. The Chinese demand for tea was great, and so tea became an important resource for Phongsaly province.
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  • Tea plantation in the Phunoi village of Ban Phou Soum, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For a long time, Komaen was the only important tea plantation Phongsaly province. However, since the 1990’s when the government decided to put an end to slash and burn rice and opium growing, tea was developed as a commercial crop. The Chinese demand for tea was great, and so tea became an important resource for Phongsaly province.
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  • A team of English tea-tasters employed by the tea company Lyons sample different blends for the PG Tips brand in the City of London, England UK. With variously-sourced teas from tea estate plantations, they smell, touch, sip, slurp then spit the hot drink out into a spitoon rather than swallow it many times repeatedly. Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day and world tea production is approximately 3.2 million tonnes a year. Kenya is the largest producer with Sri Lanka a close second. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time depending on season.
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  • Human tea bags protest outside Sainsbury’s AGM to highlight concern over supermarket’s decision to replace Fairtrade tea on July 5th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Campaigners dressed up as tea bags protest in front of a giant teapot as shareholders arrive for Sainsbury’s annual general meeting. The human tea bags’ message says ‘Save Fairtrade Tea’. The stunt by Oxfam and CAFOD is part of a campaign launched by a coalition of charities.  One of the main concerns is that farmers and workers who produce ‘Fairly Traded’ tea for Sainsbury’s will no longer have direct control over how they spend the premium – an additional payment on the basic price intended to benefit them. Instead, they will have to apply to a board set up by Sainsbury’s in London. London. United Kingdom.
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  • A Hua 23, after having picked the tea leaves scorches them in a large “wok” to remove moisture and excess water before being put out to dry. This process is known as sha qing (kill the green),  Zha Lu village, Yunnan province bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A Hua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of  Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A Hua 23, after having picked the tea leaves scorches them in a large “wok” to remove moisture and excess water before being put out to dry. This process is known as sha qing (kill the green),  Zha Lu village, Yunnan province bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A Hua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of  Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority woman grading young tea leaves in Ban Cha Phou, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For a long time, Komaen was the only important tea plantation in the province. However, since the 1990’s when the government decided to put an end to slash and burn rice and opium growing, tea was developed as a commercial crop. The Chinese demand for tea was great, and so it became an important resource for Phongsaly province.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority woman grading young tea leaves in Ban Cha Phou, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For a long time, Komaen was the only important tea plantation in the province. However, since the 1990’s when the government decided to put an end to slash and burn rice and opium growing, tea was developed as a commercial crop. The Chinese demand for tea was great, and so it became an important resource for Phongsaly province.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority woman grading young tea leaves in Ban Cha Phou, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For a long time, Komaen was the only important tea plantation in the province. However, since the 1990’s when the government decided to put an end to slash and burn rice and opium growing, tea was developed as a commercial crop. The Chinese demand for tea was great, and so it became an important resource for Phongsaly province.
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  • A Chai Wallah or tea maker makes tea in Old Delhi, India.<br />
Tradionally Indian tea is a mixture of tea leaves, water, sugar and sometimes spices boiled together and strained into cups
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  • Tea pickers unloading baskets of tea on the Brook Bond Tea estate, Kericho, Kenya.
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  • A scenic view of a forested valley and surrounding tea plantations in Katukitula, Sri Lanka. The British planter, James Taylor introduced tea to Sri Lanka in 1867, the cooler climate of the Kandy region is perfect of growing Tea. Approximately 4000 square miles of Sri Lankan highlands in covered in tea plantations.
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  • '400 year old' tea cigar, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After harvesting the tea leaves, they are heated in a wok, stirring by hand. The leaves are then spread out on a bamboo platter and crushed by rolling them. They are then left to dry in the fresh air. To make the tea cigars, the dried leaves are steam heated and stuffed into a hollow bamboo stick which is 20 to 30 cm long. When they cool down, the leaves are taken out and are in a cigar shape which is then bound with a bamboo band.
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  • '400 year old' tea cigar, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After harvesting the tea leaves, they are heated in a wok, stirring by hand. The leaves are then spread out on a bamboo platter and crushed by rolling them. They are then left to dry in the fresh air. To make the tea cigars, the dried leaves are steam heated and stuffed into a hollow bamboo stick which is 20 to 30 cm long. When they cool down, the leaves are taken out and are in a cigar shape which is then bound with a bamboo band.
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  • A smarlty dressed male waiter pours tea in Palm Court at The Ritz on the 4th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Palm Court is a glass-ceilinged venue for extravagant afternoon tea at the 5 star The Ritz hotel.
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  • '400 year old' tea cigars, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After harvesting the tea leaves, they are heated in a wok, stirring by hand. The leaves are then spread out on a bamboo platter and crushed by rolling them. They are then left to dry in the fresh air. To make the tea cigars, the dried leaves are steam heated and stuffed into a hollow bamboo stick which is 20 to 30 cm long. When they cool down, the leaves are taken out and are in a cigar shape which is then bound with a bamboo band.
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  • Cup of strong tea (also known as builders tea) in a 'greasy spoon; caf.
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  • A smarlty dressed male waiter pours tea in Palm Court at The Ritz on the 4th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Palm Court is a glass-ceilinged venue for extravagant afternoon tea at the 5 star The Ritz hotel.
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  • A decorated table set for afternoon tea at Palm Court at The Ritz on the 4th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Palm Court is a glass-ceilinged venue for extravagant afternoon tea at the 5 star The Ritz hotel.
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  • A decorated table set for afternoon tea at Palm Court at The Ritz on the 4th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Palm Court is a glass-ceilinged venue for extravagant afternoon tea at the 5 star The Ritz hotel.
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  • A decorated table set for afternoon tea at Palm Court at The Ritz on the 4th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Palm Court is a glass-ceilinged venue for extravagant afternoon tea at the 5 star The Ritz hotel.
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  • A waiter pours hot water from a silver urn for tea during an afternoon tea dance at the Waldorf Hotels Palm Court, Waldorf Hilton Hotel, Aldwych., on 16th March 1997, in London, England.
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  • The Tea Garden shisha bar along Ormond Quay Lower on 2nd April 2017 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. An alternative hangout and great place to buy tea in many flavours. Dublin is the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland, it’s on Ireland’s east coast at the mouth of the River Liffey.
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  • The Tea Garden shisha bar along Ormond Quay Lower on 2nd April 2017 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. An alternative hangout and great place to buy tea in many flavours. Dublin is the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland, it’s on Ireland’s east coast at the mouth of the River Liffey.
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  • Dried tea leaves for making 'suja', salty yak butter tea, for sale at the Sunday produce market in Paro, Western Bhutan. Paro's weekly market is a small traditional market and the place to purchase Bhutan's unique local products.
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  • Tea for two at the Blue Sky Cafe on the 23rd June 2017 in Cromer in North Norfolk, United Kingdom
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  • Luo Ming Wei  with his brothers carefully sample Pu'er tea that their factory is presently producing before it's sent away for sale. They wash the leaves in boiling water and then infuse the tea in fresh water for a few minutes before serving, Yi Wu village, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Pu' er tea factory. The drying of the tea "disks" once they have gone through quality control and have been pressed takes up to a year as during this time there is a natural process of fermentation which involves the natural bacterial and fungal action on the drying disks before they are packaged and made ready for sale,   Yi Wu village, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Luo Ming Wei, in the  Pu'er tea factory he co-owns with two brothers assessing the quality of the tea that they are packaging to ensure the right consistency, fragrance and maturity,  Yi Wu village, Yunnan Province, close to the Laos and Myanmar border.
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  • Lit by early sun that filters through mountain peaks to this remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, we see the veranda of a tea shop that serves weary travellers trekking the Annapurna Circuit and traditional doko basket. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary, a sometimes gruelling walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak - and beyond. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller and the landscapes are often shared with local livestock.
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  • Huxinting Tea HousePatrons have tea and chat at the Huxinting (Lake Center Pavilion) Tea House in the Yuyuan Gardens in Shanghai, China on 13 October 2013. Yuyuan and the surrounding Chenghuangmiao area represent the oldest vestige of Shanghai, having existed long before the British made Shanghai a treaty port and the most important economic hub in China.
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  • Luo Ming Wei (center), with his brothers carefully sample the tea that their factory is presently producing before it's sent away for sale. They wash the leaves in boiling water and then infuse the tea in fresh water for a few minutes before serving, Yi Wu village, Yunnan province, China.
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  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945 and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Home-owners have afternoon tea while distancing themselves by leaving a mug of tea for a neighbour to collect on the ground, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945 and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Home-owners have afternoon tea while distancing themselves by leaving a mug of tea for a neighbour to collect on the ground, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A cup of tea placed a floral plastic table lining at the Farm Cafe in rural Holbeach on the 23rd June 2017 in Norfolk, United Kingdom. Established during the 1950’s after the owners parents set up a tea stop on the east bound A17, the cafe has grown over the years and attracts coach loads of tourist and travellers often en route to the north Norfolk coast.
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  • Chinese worker Ah Ty heats the tea leaves in a wok, stirring by hand, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The leaves are then spread out on a bamboo platter and crushed by rolling them. They are then left to dry in the fresh air. To make the tea cigars, the dried leaves are steam heated and stuffed into a hollow bamboo stick which is 20 to 30 cm long. After cooling down, the leaves are taken out and are in a cigar shape which is then bound with a bamboo band.
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  • Chinese worker Ah Ty heats the tea leaves in a wok, stirring by hand, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The leaves are then spread out on a bamboo platter and crushed by rolling them. They are then left to dry in the fresh air. To make the tea cigars, the dried leaves are steam heated and stuffed into a hollow bamboo stick which is 20 to 30 cm long. After cooling down, the leaves are taken out and are in a cigar shape which is then bound with a bamboo band.
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  • Chinese worker Ah Ty heats the tea leaves in a wok, stirring by hand, Ban Komaen, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The leaves are then spread out on a bamboo platter and crushed by rolling them. They are then left to dry in the fresh air. To make the tea cigars, the dried leaves are steam heated and stuffed into a hollow bamboo stick which is 20 to 30 cm long. After cooling down, the leaves are taken out and are in a cigar shape which is then bound with a bamboo band.
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  • Tea Time poster at Stibbington Diner, one of the last remaining 24 hour cafes along the A1, on the 07th May 2010 in Stibbington in the United Kingdom.
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  • Green tea for sale in Shanghai, China.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
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