Tea Article In Time Magazine--taking tea in Malaysia

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Tea Article In Time Magazine--taking tea in Malaysia

by Riene » Jul 27th, '08, 09:34

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1717144_1822005_1821606,00.html

Time Magazine has an article on taking tea in the Cameron Highlands. I enjoy finding tea articles in the news!

Then the eye is drawn to a different silhouette atop one of the bright green slopes, which, as one gets closer, is revealed to be a table shaded by a vast parasol. Beneath it stands a waiter in a starched white uniform. Laid out on a damask cloth are bone china cups along with finger sandwiches and home-baked scones; all in all a spread that would not look out of place at the London Ritz. Behold the "afternoon tea picnic" prepared by the Cameron Highlands Resort Hotel and served on a working tea plantation. The hotel also offers tea planter guided walks and, before every treatment on its spa menu, a detoxifying, skin-softening bath in cold tea.