In terms of per capita consumption China and Japan are nowhere near the biggest tea drinking cultures in the world: There's a wide gulf between them & the top t

In terms of per capita consumption China and Japan are nowhere near the biggest tea drinking cultures in the world: There's a wide gulf between them & the top three which includes the UK & Ireland. But they in turn trail in the wake of the biggest tea drinkers of them all: the Turks. If we're going to talk about cultures which have a close relationship with tea then the Turks beat out everyone else by a wide margin.