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Originally Posted by annelie82
Wow, interesting piece of info, thank you! Who would've thought that gold could be used for that purpose? Is that why the Japanese don't put milk in their tea, I wonder? Because any change of colour would have been more difficult to detect as it would have been "obscured" by the milk?
~annelie
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I think that is mainly because the whole culture of tea is significantly different in Japan to begin with. Tea is *not* sweetened, and one of the main points is to enjoy the pure flavor of it. Putting milk into the tea for one thing wouldn`t go along with the flavor, and for another would obscure the flavor.
Besides, milk really wasn`t normally consumed in Japan anyway.
The detection by gold bit really isn`t at all unique to Japan - it was used is Europe also. It isn`t something the average person would do, so I seriously doubt it would have a big influence on the general styles of consuming tea.