Hong Kong is one of the important consumption, Chinese tea is lingnan junctions, tea culture and western tea culture, is the bulwark of puer tea culture preservation, sublimation, and Japan, the UK, Sri Lanka tea for the important position.To understand the customs and culture of Hong Kong, to experience its consumption concept, whether it is to tea operators or consumers, it has a reference or practical significance.

Hong Kong's black tea culture

Hong Kong is a Chinese as the main residents, influenced by southeast Asian culture, and by the British ruled region, coupled with the tax policy of Hong Kong, the world all kinds of culture collision here.Hong Kong has its own unique tea culture, tea is an important part of people life in Hong Kong, which in turn is transmitted to the mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong style tea culture affected the friends of tea and the general public.

One source of Hong Kong's tea culture is the culture of black tea in Britain.Hong Kong has also been given the habit of drinking black tea for nearly 100 years.In high society, upscale hotel, afternoon tea (fine dim sum is indispensable) is very popular activity, the impetus of afternoon tea, western dessert is more and more refined.Savvy Hong Kong businessman reformed the fashion of the society, to develop various new drink black tea, such as pantyhose milk tea (a made from silk stockings stockings or similar materials filter to filter out the milk tea), mandarin duck, milk tea, coffee and black tea), ice tea, etc., and introduce the tea restaurant, a fast-food restaurant mainly drinks.Six thousand tea restaurants and two thousand fast food restaurants in Hong Kong consume a lot of black tea every year.

From some Numbers, we can see the Hong Kong tea wind: Hong Kong consumes more than 15,000 tons of tea per year, 2 kg per capita (035kg/person);Hong Kong imports more than 5,000 tons of black tea a year, most of which are sold in tea bags, the form of tea bags, which consume nine hundred million tea bags a year.

Morning tea in Hong Kong

Tea culture in Hong Kong is a pragmatic and practical culture.When the mainland is still cheering tea and encouraging tea consumption, hong kongers have long turned tea into life itself.

In Hong Kong, eating breakfast is often referred to as drinking early tea. The most traditional morning tea is two pieces, which are affected by the popular morning tea, which is a pot of tea and two snacks.Hong Kong has laozihao restaurants such as lu yu tea room and lianxiang building.Every morning in the tea tea room, you can see visitors wear quite formal, older waiter dressed in a white coat, black trousers, loafers, snacks, tea into the water, the appearance of both Chinese service also has English butler's arrogance.At lianxiang building and all kinds of restaurants, tea is short for breakfast and lunch. Of course, no matter how many steamed and Fried dishes you order, a pot of tea is essential.This kind of tea is made of pu 'er tea (not necessarily yunnan), white tea, oolong tea and chrysanthemum tea.

Morning tea specials that some of Hong Kong wine shop is more, consumption is relatively cheap, such as in wan chai several more rich seafood restaurant, a pot of tea, point seven or eight snacks (including bowl bowl of rice, vegetables, etc.), explode, four or five people can eat too full.In general, a little over a hundred, this is a fairly affordable consumption in Hong Kong.It's no wonder that many elderly people in Hong Kong are sitting in the middle of the morning, ordering POTS of tea, ordering a table of snacks, a newspaper to cook for half a day, and then packing up, even lunch or even dinner.Tea culture in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, the sale of tea mainly consists of a few large parts: tea, mainly in charge of the wholesale and import and export trade, also known as the head disc dealer;The larger tea houses can be retail and wholesale, and they are often two dealers of import and export trade;Some of the two traders are also processors, and they have their own processing plants or workshops, processing some special teas, which are also the most intersecting with pu 'er tea and six castles.Small tea houses are sold to the tea shop.Department stores, new tea sales venues, sales of foreign products more;Tea houses, tea restaurants and restaurants are the direct consumption places of tea.Hong Kong's division of Labour is similar to the way the tea industry was run 60 years ago.The author several times with the owners of the old tea chat, they will be mentioned, during the cultural revolution, China tea into Hong Kong only a unique channel, it is in the hands of China resources group tak nobuyuki (business), Germany nobuyuki again according to the attitude of the good or bad to mainland China to deliver goods to the big merchants, head plate, two plate, two plate suppliers to the head set after the choice can be selected.Because of the tea is made by Germany nobuyuki monopoly, it can give me some additional political demands, such as, tea-brokers must every Wednesday to tak nobuyuki "reading", namely singing revolutionary songs, read the quotations from chairman MAO, and study the left editorial da gong bao, and so on.

There is also a group of people called "broker-dealers" in the headsets, small and medium-sized tea houses and restaurants, as well as eight tea brokers who are officially registered with the Hong Kong Kowloon tea chamber.They are responsible for digging around, building Bridges between tea houses, tea houses and end-sellers, looking for goods for terminals, and charging a 2% commission for each transaction.As a result, "broking" is a common thing in Hong Kong's tea industry, where they often know the whereabouts of each tea bank and even the whereabouts of every single tea.Today, tea brokers' brains and transaction records are as valuable as antique appraisers in the soaring prices of old tea.