Even though Lin Hsiu Hui first created bubble tea by adding tapioca balls into her tea, the " bubble" in bubble tea actually refers to the oxygen pockets formed by shaking the tea.
After all, it's far easier to dilute overly strong tea with the addition of more hot water than it is to add more tea to a weak brew as the pot is cooling.
Stoked on cup after cup of tea (I drank it by the gallon when I wrote … unless I was drinking beer, that is) , I filled sixteen pages of a steno notebook.
Swill these around the cup three times with the left hand, then turn the cup upside down on its saucer, wait for the last of the tea to drain away, then give your cup to your partner to read.
Making a mental note to ask Hermione how it was done, he used a large wad of toilet paper to mop up as much of the tea as he could before returning to his bedroom and slamming the door behind him.
Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.
Sometimes when Scarlett saw guests sitting on the grass, sipping tea, the only refreshment the Wilkeses could afford, she wondered how Melanie could bring herself to expose her poverty so shamelessly.