Really!
As I said before, I don't usually drink milk in my tea because I usually drink Chinese green teas.
Tea pots should not be made from metal, as the 'metallic chi' affects the flavour of the tea.
The best teapots are made from China (that makes a 'ching!' sound when you flick it or sand pottery, particularly Jixing (purple sand pots) from the Jixing region of China. These pots are actually porous and so good care must be taken with cleaning and storing them - they improve markedly with age as they absorb the tea, but can also absorb strong odours and chemical cleaners if care is not taken!
Forgive me forgetting that the Dutch invented everything, ruled the world and removed needlessly rude comment, but English people drink milk in their tea, because it is so-called 'English tea', black tea usually from Sri Lanka and India.
If an English person drinks green, white, or red Chinese tea, they don't add milk, because that would be terrible! I don't have milk in my tea, unless I drink English tea. The reason I add milk to English tea is that it is very strong and would make me go 'yeurgh!' on its own. I'd like to see *anyone* drink a five-minute-brewed Assam without milk or a big dose of sugar (sugar, yeurgh!).
I would never suggest that you drink milk with Oolong, Lo Chu Cha, Jasmine tea, etc., however
The nations with greatest tea-making traditions are England, Morocco, Russia, China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Tibet, Mongolia, India and Japan :-D England being the most recent addition to the club. The Portuguese were believed to be the ones who introduced tea to Europe, although the Dutch also began importing it soon after.
And by the way, tea is an interest of mine and I've done much reading on the subject.
Did you know that monkey tea is called monkey tea because its a certain variety that grows in such remote places that it has to be picked by trained monkeys?
