Word: teashops
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...vandalism?for example, burning the Thai flags that villagers are ordered by the authorities to display outside their homes?and then to actual militant attacks, acting as a lookout or helping to block roads with felled trees or burning tires. Later, he might plant a bomb in a teashop or other public place, which others will remotely detonate. Later still, he might remotely detonate it himself...
...relates all this in a hotel room, out of public view, fearful of meeting the same fate as his father. Militant leader Hassam is different. A doleful-looking man with an ill-concealed revolver in his anorak, Hassam chooses to meet with TIME in a open-air teashop in the southern city of Yala?a measure of how confident the insurgents have become...
...cream, porcelain saucers and ostentatious pinkie fingers. Owing to this imagined heritage, the advent of chains like Tealuxe and proliferation of trendy herbal tea-shops might seem a flourish of Anglophilia, as if the alterna-caffeine crowd were hankering to sip chamomile with the Queen Mother herself. A new teashop in Cambridge aims to shatter this image with a taste of original tea. Truth is, the British have only taken tea-time for 350 years. The Chinese, on the other hand, have been at it for five thousand...
STRANGE BREW Somehow the sultry-voiced Korean equivalent of lounge music doesn't seem out of place among the wooden tables and rice paper lanterns of the Golden Scales Teashop. After all, its interior design is a study in eclecticism. A Chinese landscape painting shares a wall with an aging beer ad. A stuffed fish capers among vines of plastic grapes. The proprietress, gliding soundlessly over the warped wooden floor, serves me a refreshing bowl of o-mi (five-flavor) tea?sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty. Not unlike lemonade, I decide, as I drain the curious concoction of tea, tangerine...
...Insadong, a quiet corner of Seoul perhaps best known for its small art galleries, is full of such back-alley teahouses. Their d?cor is often as odd as their names, and they offer more teas than you can shake a stuffed carp at. Try The New Old Teashop, which boasts uncaged birds, an oversized chameleon, and a monkey that likes rice crackers. My personal favorite is the Moon Bird Does Not Only Think of the Moon Teashop, where your infusion comes with complimentary yakgwa, traditional honey cakes...