The tea in China is pretty grim.

It’s green, which is the wrong colour for starters, and they just leave it as a bunch of dry leaves rather than putting it in a convenient bag.

To get around the problem of having loads of manky tea leaves floating around in your cup, going in your mouth, and probably choking you, most people don’t start drinking until all of the leaves fall to the bottom, but here’s a better solution:

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Build a little ceramic fortress to keep all of the leaves inside.

Of course that only works if you put the leaves inside the little leaf prison, which this guy did not do.