Word: lii
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bags for menus of luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses across the country, like San Francisco's Tea & Co., Boston's Tealuxe and Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown, used to have an almost solely Asian clientele; now a third of her customers are non-Asians. "People used to spit it out and stick out their tongues," she says of those sampling her exotic teas. "Now they know...