a Pot of Tea

I've been having a pot of tea, always, sitting in the middle of our dining table…

Rainy day, sunny day, gloomy day, whatever day…

I'm used to having a pot of tea sitting in the middle of our dining table…

It's bad, and it's good,

Good as in, drinking tea is good habit, I drink "ang mor" tea, I drink japanese tea, I drink chinese tea, whatever tea you give me…

(ya, hehe, hint hint, if you run out of idea of giving me present, you can just by me whatever tea, from wherever, tesco also can, haha!)

Bad is in, you're so used to having a pot of tea sitting in the middle of your dining table, that's why, when you travel, out of your house, you'll kinda miss having a pot of tea sitting in the middle of your XXX table, oh, you've a table?? When you travel?? That's the problem, you don't even have a decent "dining" table!!!!!

Ya, cos, I drink tea like water, is that advisable, I don't know, of course, water is water, tea is tea, but I actually do not quite like plain water… though, taking my tea away, I think, plain water's the best!

But I still miss my pot of tea in the middle of our dining table, if you ask me…

Sometimes, if the tea's consumed by the end of the day, I'll actually get up in the middle of the night, enjoy boiling a kettle of water, and make sure that pot of tea's full!!  Back there, sitting in the middle of our dining table!!!

It's bloody sign of aging, if you ask me again!!! :-p

Anyway… back to the pot of tea… I used to struggle with getting the best teapot…

Any decent nice teapot doesn't mean that it'll be a good teapot to me, cos, I need the volume to be sustainable for my (and our) continuous drinking of the tea…

I bought an IKEA teapot before, and using it, is kinda challenging to us, serious!! If you poor too fast, the tea will leak out from the 2 sides of the opening…

And that's when I started to get frustrated, looking for a good replacement, I tried some tall glass pitcher, usually the plastic types have bigger volume, but you won't want to use plastic with boiling water, right?

I've tried 2 or 3 of them, they just don't last me more than 2-3 serving each… (damn!)

So, I switched back to that IKEA teapot…

And I took out the cone strainer, I guess, that's the one that cause the main "leakage" everytime we pour the tea…

It does help a little bit, though it doesn't mean that if we pour the tea fast enough, there'll be no more "leakage", but it does help…

I used the conventional metal tea leaf container…

And therefore…

I always get to have a pot of tea, sitting in the middle of our dining table, day and night, 24/7

^_^