How often do you drink tea?

[Sovereign]

Don - Kotatsu! We we're watching My Neighbours the Yamadas the other day and pining for their kotatsu. Super want.

Ref: hot chocolate, I visited my brother last weekend and he cooked up a load of milk with cardamon pods in then made hot chocolate with pure cocoa using the milk. It was amazingly delicious but almost too strong for me. A bit time consuming for me though...
When I make hot chocolate I get a few bars of Bournville chocolate and melt them into milk on the hob, it is really nice, but again it takes so long it is just for special.

Phill

[Nurul]

Ah bourneville. It's weird how I hate dark chocolate but I've not got a problem melting it n having it but it's all about aero bubbles hot choc mmmmm with a layer of marshmallows, whipped cream, sprinkles topped off with a flake

[Don Boyer]

Ah bourneville. It's weird how I hate dark chocolate but I've not got a problem melting it n having it but it's all about aero bubbles hot choc mmmmm with a layer of marshmallows, whipped cream, sprinkles topped off with a flake

Dark chocolate can be an acquired taste, depending on the percentage of cacao.  I've been known to occasionally nibble on a 99% cacao bar from Lindt - very bitter, but with a nice aftertaste when it melts.

You're probably tasting your chocolate the way the Aztecs did - chocolate was a liquid in its earliest incarnations.  It wasn't until the Hershey Company added milk fat solids to it in order to make it more easily portable - and thus the chocolate bar was born.

[MrMollusk]

I just got back from China. They literally had the best tea I've ever had. Longjing (dragon well) tea is grown in Hang Zhou, and I got the privileged of visiting the tea village. You can actually eat the tea leaves once you've brewed a few cups with them. (btw, it's green tea, so it's super fresh and subtle.)

The Chinese family I was staying with also served me a cup of Pu'er tea. Best black tea I ever drank. Amazingly strong, almost like coffee.

[Don Boyer]

I just got back from China. They literally had the best tea I've ever had. Longjing (dragon well) tea is grown in Hang Zhou, and I got the privileged of visiting the tea village. You can actually eat the tea leaves once you've brewed a few cups with them. (btw, it's green tea, so it's super fresh and subtle.)

The Chinese family I was staying with also served me a cup of Pu'er tea. Best black tea I ever drank. Amazingly strong, almost like coffee.

It's practically the birthplace of tea, China.  I can only imagine some of the teas that were available to you.