Chrysanthemum, goji and sliced red dates float in three blue-and-white bowls while a copper kettle pours hot water into one, and bamboo baskets beside them hold dried chrysanthemum, goji and red dates.
Tea without tea
Introduction
Drinks made from the flowers, leaves, fruit or roots of plants other than the tea plant, and brewed like tea.
Non-tea infusions are drinks made not from the leaves of the tea plant but from the flowers, leaves, fruit or roots of other plants, and brewed and drunk like tea. The word tea in the name refers only to the way they are drunk; the material is not tea leaf. They are different from scented tea, which is tea leaf scented with fresh flowers and belongs to Reprocessed Tea. They are also different from the herbal cooling drinks of Lingnan, which are classed with the other folk drinks.