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Interestingly pu-erh is often referred to as "red tea" in Western countries.
by mziel 9y ago
Interestingly pu-erh is often referred to as "red tea" in Western countries.
- dagw 9y agoI've only heard "red tea" used to refer to rooibos tea.
- mziel 9y agoSpecifically in Poland: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh Translating the article: Pu-erh (chin. 普洱茶, pǔ’ěr chá) – a kind of tea that is classified as red tea in Poland (black tea in China since the Chinese classify the tea according to the colour of the brew, as opposed to Europeans who classify tea according to the colour of dried leaves).
- davedx 9y agoAhh, Polish, also one of those outlier languages that doesn't call tea by the two words in the article :)
- mziel 9y agoThe article has it wrong, as I mentioned in another comment. Polish word for tea is "herbata" which comes from "herbal tea".
- kingofhdds 9y agoNot exactly. According to Bruckner, it comes from simplification of herba thea, which means "plant of tea", not "herbal tea". Then the cluster of Polish herbata, Belarusian harbata, and Lithuanian arbata grows from the same te-, even if it sounds so different, so the article is not THAT wrong. Though, I agree the statement "the world has..." is still technically incorrect as there are more languages around, than just English, and words for tea are many even if they are all of the same roots.
- alanh 9y agoSame here. I live in San Francisco and to the best of my knowledge, Pu-erh seems to be called just that. “Red tea” is not often said, but I would assume it meant rooibos. (BTW — if you haven't tried rooibos, please do. It is delicious.)