Etiquette and Tea Slurping

Slurping shows one’s appreciation to one’s host or hostess. The more, the better!
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Slurping Your Tea Is Polite Manners 

HONOLULU (AP) “Chinese connoisseurs of tea are meticulous,” wrote Mary Sia in a Chinese cookbook published by the University of Hawaii Press, and they have their own rules of etiquette. “It is good manners to show appreciation by making plenty of noise while drinking,” she wrote. —The Sun, 1972

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