What Do You Usually Have for Afternoon Tea?

Nope, that is more of a british custom..and british-influenced countries. But not here. By the way...how do you manage to start so many discussions? WOW, it's amazing lol.

My family is used to have our four o’clock tea after having a nap or back from work normally about five o’clock in the afternoon. Most of the time, I prepare a pot of hot English tea or Chinese green tea for our tea time. We enjoy eating some sandwiches, tarts, biscuits or toasts while having tea. Occasionally we have our four o’clock tea outside like coffee beans or kopitiam(coffee shop).

we do not have that culture,so I do not have afternoon tea till now.but when watching some tv operas about hongkong,I know they have the habit,and to some extent,I want to have afternoon tea,but I do not know what should I eat,hehe.

I love milk tea, but usually do not have time for an afternoon snack OR a nap (I wish!), still it is a very nice idea, and I would if I could! Very late at night (just before bed), I like to have a nice cold glass of milk with chocolate syrup, a few teaspoons of coffee and a small scoop of ice cream gently stirred. Time allowing, if it is warm weather, I mix in a little finely crushed ice. Sometimes I have a small cookie or half a muffin with it. That is sort of my "you survived the day" treat and something I look forward to!

Hello wondericequeen, We do have afternoon tea here. As for my family, we only have the afternoon tea on weekends. We serve special traditional cookies with tea. I don't have my afternoon tea while working at the office. I always have a big thermos and some tidbits and just grab them whenever I want to... *laughs*

It's not really typical here in the states but then again we have a mix of so many cultures that anything goes, lol. However I just read a book that took place between the 1800's and 1990's (really long book, lol) in London/Germany/Paris and it made constant references to tea, so much so that I started having a cup (non decaf) before bed. But it also made me fall in love with the whole afternoon tea idea. It reminds me of when I used to have coffee in the afternoons after school with my grandmother and fresh bread from the bakery. I love that tea is a lot more gentle then coffee for the afternoon. I'm so glad you brought it up!

Hi there. I usually have a cup of tea and thats it... Our children come home from school and they usually have a cup of milo and a couple of biscuits, until dinner...

We don't have such a habit here. But we can eat something like biscuits, snacks or some drinks when you feel hungry.

We have afternoon breaks at work around 3-4pm, its basically almost the same thing as your except most of us drink coffee. One of my officemate drinks tea everytime and I do also sometimes during afternoon breaks. We usually have bread or sandwiches along with our drinks during afternoon breaks. :-)

I do have afternoon tea, in fact I went home with my boyfriend this afternoon (to my mother's house) as she baked some chocolate & macadamia brownies on her day off =] Although we don't usually have 'tea' (we're more inclined to have juice or just water), my family has always done the 4 o'clock "snack". Normally I have some sort of sweet, or just a savoury snack. I do try to keep my afternoon tea, as with all other meals, reasonably healthy =D

We used to have this too, but not many people stick to it anymore.Onlye if somebody come over.And then we have a tea and cake or cookies.