Even in London, it's coffee, not tea.

A five o'clock tea - must be to relax the body from a whole day's work? Is it?

@eileenleyva It is my afternoon break, although in administrations it is more often at 4 than at 5, a 10/15 mn break during work.

@topffer Hmmm, what time does office begins and ends? Here in my country, it's 7 am to 4 pm, or in some offices, 8 am to 5 pm. Your afternoon tea break is like our end of the day.

As most Asian countries sip tea also.

My daughter loves London also. But I suppose for you, it's home where you belong.

@marlina 3 pm is also our afternoon break. We have a 3'oclock prayer habit called the hour of great Mercy. Then we proceed with our merienda or snacks.

I like my tea around 3 o'clock in the afternoon

Which one do you prefer?

Yup, more coffee to perk us up. Tea is also an upper but strangely lulls us to sleep.

Yup, it was the 'black cat' tea I also grew up with. I haven't had one for ages. The Lipton came in good packages. My grandmother enjoyed it but I preferred the sweetened Nestea as a child. Today, it's a variety to choose from: raspberry, black cherry, peach, etcetera. Your Chinese bosses must have engulfed tea before and after meal courses. Chinese tea are very, very black.

@eileenleyva the older Chinese boss had both Tea and unsweetened brewed coffee. The younger has only tea. I haven't seen the younger one drinking coffee, expected of him, he studied college in London. Yes I've observed the very black, they put more tea than water lol. One of my colleagues at work didn't like tea she said it taste socks lol. Good for me I can have all the jasmine tea. Lol, but she had no choice when we went to Hongkong and entered into one ordinary fastfood, she had no choice but drink the tea with milk which is part of the combo.meal. She asked for softdrink the waiter didn't understand lol, cannot help with the language I only know gochop lol

Do you like tea with high tannin content? this will tend to taste bitter

Hay naku. I would also do that. Avail all of the free. I love free coffee and free tea. Ha ha.

@eileenleyva our teas are Twinings and it comes in different flavors. For the coffee, we have a coffee machine that is reportedly worth a brand new car. Forgot the brand but it is indeed expensive. We had the Nescafe coffee machines before but our CEO didn't like it so we switched to a more expensive one.

@allen0187 Incentive enough for the workforce to deliver better, I guess. But at the end of the day, my daughter scolded me, why avail of the free and not buy your own coffee or tea? Free is for those who have nothing at all, she said. Be the giver, not the receiver. The end of my zest for freebies! Squawk! Squawk!

Sipping black cherry tea with a teaspoon of honey right now. Tea is soothing especially after a meal course.

Funny thing that in the past decade, the Korean Gong Cha proliferated in our metro. The milk tea came alive. I don't like it at all.

I believe tea is a healthier every day drink than coffee. It's just that coffee keeps me up and about.

Tea is for healing.

@eileenleyva This is also my opinion, I grew up with this feeling.

The Brits don't eat breakfast. When my daughter came home, she has to readjust to our big breakfast meal. Plus, she eats marmite. Yuck!

@aureategloom Marmite ain't food. Why some Brits like it is beyond me. I'd rather eat Polish spaghetti. Ha ha

Wow! Thank you for that important bit of information. I never knew. Will check it out and study.

@Pechem I would, if you would start a good discussion. Otherwise, how could I follow you?

@eileenleyva Thank you. Always you can ask me!!!

Not a discussion about abuse. It's about adapting to a culture.