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Mr. Tea (Review)

Shut up, Foo’! That title is no typo. I’m not talking about that Mr. T, I’m talking about the drink known as Tea. And that’s what this documentary is focused on. This rip-from-a-dvd talks about five different subjects regarding tea. They include the history of tea, the varieties, health benefits, where to shop for it, and how to prepare it.

The narrator Joseph Lee, who claims he is known as Mr. Tea, reveals he learned about tea in his childhood from his grandmother, who read fortunes from tea leaves. Mr. Tea enjoyed making tea for his grandmother, and since then he has been shopping for the finest teas. After that intro, Mr. Tea talks about camellia sinensis which was the original tea plant. It’s believed that the classic beverage was discovered around 2437 BC when tea leaves blew into a bowl of hot water by accident. It was then served to Emperor Shen Nung of China, and eventually to everyone in the Empire. Later in 750 AD, Japanese philosophers came back from China and introduced it to their own country. Tea spread all around Asia, and Marco Polo brought tea to Europe. It soon spread all around the world.

But that’s not all the documentary covers. Among the many types of tea includes White tea, Black tea, Green tea, Yellow tea, Oolong tea, Russian tea, Pu-Erh tea . . .  and being Mr. Tea, he goes into the whole recipe process of how to brew the different teas properly as well as the benefits of every brew. Preparation and where to shop for tea are pretty basic topics. By the time it got to the preparing tea segment, I started to think this was something a school teacher would show to students while she brewed her own special tea somewhere in the back of the room.

Like tea itself, this documentary is simply made, but it’s interesting.

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