British Afternoon Tea Culture 🍵

‘You are “my cup of tea”’! is a British phrase which means something or someone makes me pleasing. 

In York, Betty's Café Tea Room is one of the most famous tea rooms in the UK, and they have two stores which located in Helen’s Square and 46 Stonegate in city centre. 

About Betty's history, says the website, 'With beautiful interiors inspired by the Queen Mary ocean liner, it’s been making a splash since 1936.’

Betty's traditional English Tea 

They nowadays still follow the traditional way but serve more kinds of tea and coffee than before.

Interestingly, the founder—Frederick Belmont, is a Swiss confectioner, and who is Betty? It is still unknown.

In fact, tea culture has been popular for many centuries in the East and West world. In the past, tea is for the working class in the UK to be the evening meal and is typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pm. For the upper social classes, they would call the midday meal—‘lunch’ or ‘luncheon’; and the evening meal (served after 7 pm)—‘dinner’ (if formal) or ‘supper’ (if informal).

Cream tea at Cotswolds tearoom

There is no doubt that drinking tea is one of the most fascinating cultural traditions in the UK. If you trace back to the British history, tea is very important so that the British Empire was intrigued to control the colony, such as India and Ceylon. The British Empire and Americans even fight for tea tax and finally, the US broke away with their counterpart, Indeed, the British people drink tea from breakfast to afternoon, tea drinking is definitely part of British lifestyle.

Whittard, Twinings or Yorkshire tea are popular brands in the UK, and if you want to enjoy tea time in the tearoom, it is better to learn the proper manner in which to drink tea, especially when you drink English Cream Tea. Should I put Jam on top first or cream first? This YouTube shows you how to drink it in a proper way (Cornish say 'put cream second' ). 

I do enjoy English cream tea in the Cotswolds and Brighton & Hove and now drink my high tea in Yorkshire. As the British say, it is something they are proud of! Come and Enjoy it!

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英國茶文化

‘You are “my cup of tea”’就是中文說的你是我的菜啦!

生活在約克，Betty’s是英國最有名的茶坊之一。他們的歷史如同他們的網站所描述:“成立於1936年以來,美麗的內部裝飾是受到瑪麗女王的遠洋航輪所啟發，它一直深受大家喜歡。”他們現在仍然遵循著傳統的方式，但比以前提供更多種類的茶和咖啡。有趣的是，創始人Frederick Belmont是瑞士糕點師傅，但誰是Betty？目前還不清楚。

事實上,茶文化在東方和西方世界已經流行了很多個世紀。在過去，茶是英國的工人階級的晚餐，通常在下午5點到晚上7點之間吃。對於上層的社會階層來說，他們會把午餐叫做“lunch’ 或 ‘luncheon’”。晚餐（下午7點後）稱為“dinner”（如果是正式的）或“supper”（如果是非正式的）。

毫無疑問地，喝茶是英國最迷人的文化傳統之一。如果你追溯到英國的歷史，茶是非常重要的，以致於促使大英帝國控制殖民地-如印度和錫蘭。大英帝國和美國人甚至為茶稅打戰，最後美國人擺脫了他們的對手了。的確，英國人從早餐到下午喝茶，喝茶絕對是英國生活方式的一部分。

Whittard, Twinings or Yorkshire tea 是英國有名的茶葉牌子,如果你想去茶室享用下午茶,最好學習喝茶的正確方法，特別是如何喝英式奶油茶。我應該先把果醬放在上面還是先把奶油放在上面呢？以下這個YouTube顯示你如何以適當的方式喝它。(Cornish人說奶油要第2個放,PS:參考其他資料是說可能是果醬在以前較貴,所以可以先放一些,再堆疊奶油).

我在Cotswolds和Hove享用了我的奶油茶，現在在York喝傳統英式下午茶。如同英國人說的,這是值得他們驕傲的事!來英國就喝一杯吧!