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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
What’s “black English tea”? My dictionary says “black tea” is a kind of Chinese teas.
Do you say “English tea” “red tea”?
Is this Japanese perceived notion? English tea comes with Western food, green tea comes with Japanese food, and Chinese black tea comes with Chinese food.
So, when they gave me green tea with western food, I felt it very odd.
Did the Japanese person get it funny too?
How about other cake in the picture? Have you had like them?
I’ve heard, in the US, they don’t sell cut cakes. They usually sell whole cakes.
Which do they sell in your country? Whole or cut? I’ve been in England twice, but I’ve never seen English confectionery.
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Collin explained what i mean black tea is already, however, in England we call a kind of tea from South Africa 'red tea', so to me, Green Tea seems very asian and I think of jasmine tea when I am offered 'chinese tea'.
I would find it odd to be served green tea with english food too, just as it would seem odd to you to be offered milk tea with sushi. But on a flight, it's a bit different isn't it? You get tea offered by itself, and anyway, both types of cuisine are usually available. I don't know if the japanese passengers were given the same types of tea I was, as I wasn't sat near enough to see.
Is that a mont blanc on top of a cake? How interesting! I've never seen that before. In the UK you can buy just a slice of cake if you go to a proper bakery, tea room or patisserie, but mostly in supermarkets they just sell the whole cake. I prefer to bake it myself though
A lot of the very traditional cakes (like christmas cake) aren't baked at all; they're boiled or steamed and are more like a cake-y dumpling. Its also quite common to find cake that's been cooked as a tray-bake so it comes in squares, not slices.