What kind of tea is there in Russia? Is it different from China?

Russia's most dominant is black tea.

There is a fundamental difference between Russia and China in terms of tea drinking, China is mainly green tea, while Russia is mainly black tea, and black tea should be sweetened.

Russians drink tea, often accompanied by large plates and small plates of cakes, scones, pies, sweet breads, cookies, sugar, jam, honey and so on "tea". Especially the various desserts, is the Russian tea standard.

Extended information:

Russian word "tea". There is no doubt that the Russian word "tea" is of Chinese origin. Russian "tea" and Chinese tea pronunciation is very close to the Russian tea called "cha-chi". It sounds like the sound of "tea-leaf".

Into the life of the Russians, you will find that they have a morning tea and afternoon tea, is the Russians whether in the office or at home in the custom.

Russians usually drink tea mainly black tea, there are many people like flower tea. With the rise of weight loss and health care, more and more Russians know and start to try green tea. Since Russians are used to adding sugar to their tea, and some even add milk at the same time, most Russians also add sugar to their green tea.

During the Soviet era, most of the black tea Russians drank came from India, mainly because the Indian government used it to pay off foreign debts owed to the Soviet Union, so most of it was cheap and low-grade. In recent years, Chinese tea has been pouring into the Russian market. The wholesale tobacco and tea market at the Kiev train station is the largest in Moscow.

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