Tea is an addiction or could be used for de-addiction from something which is not good. We all have numerous cups of tea everyday some for reason and many without any reason. It's a good drink during social meets and is an all time all season all age all gender:) and many alls drink.
Many might not be aware that Tea was first discovered by Chinese and made hugely popular by British all over the world.I still here stories from my grand parents when and how they had first experience of tea. During their times it was a good gossip since in rural areas only some privileged people had the honour of having tea at max twice a day. As time progressed,economic conditions of people improved and society became more liberal in every sense & tea became a major drink all over india.
Enough of history of tea, this blog is to vent out my frustration for not getting a tea which tastes like a tea in Gurgaon's outskirts. Today is sunday and it's 4PM and i didn't had proper tea so far.Delhi, Gurgaon is famous for eateries but for tea i don't think it's famous for and probably become unfamous for if some more people like me start writing these kind of blogs.
As already mentioned i am working on a client location on outskirts of gurgaon and far away from Delhi as well. There are over dozen tea stalls outside office. Over a period of 2 months i tried tea in all these tea stalls and found every stall has the same kind of tea as if they all have same secret formula for making tea as some soft drink has. I tried in office canteen, it's the same. There is no proper ratio of milk and water, God knows whether they put water in milk or milk in water for making tea. It feels strange that this ratio is same or almost same in all the stalls!
Secondly, everyone doubts whether people over here are sweet or not but it's guaranteed that, all are Sweet people when it comes to tea. Yes, probably sugar is less expensive here or they might be getting some discount for sugar so there is always surplus sugar in all the stalls(needless to mention as they all share same formula).
There are hardly few people who takes tea on a particluar time but i am not in that category and fall in other category of people who drink whenever they like whether it's 40 degrees or just before any meals. But you got to be punctual here if you want to have tea with only 2 negatives what i mentioned above. Otherwise get ready for the darker version of tea which was made hours before and will taste like hot water. You might also end up having tea at some miser's stall who thinks when the colour of mixture of water and milk changes, tea is ready so that he can save some Gas. At one point you will be confused whether its a tea or horlicks in milk which you are looking at.
In 2 months I tried tea in many places like connought place, near india gate, in agra, on the way to agra, jama masjid ,iffco chowk etc. Probably many might not know these names of places but the point here is in 2 months i had proper tea only twice: first on the way to agra in a restuarant named "Maharaja" It was very expensive restuarant where our driver took us thinking we are big spenders, looking at the menu me and my whole team sticked to one common item and that was without surprise "Masala Tea". It costed us 60 bucks+taxes:). Well, but we were not aware it was worth spending that much as the tea was awesomely awesome and i could have paid twice to have such tea. If i ever go to Agra on my own transport i will surely stop by to have tea there.secondly, i had tea which was tea with malai and was like tea in all sense near Jama masjid, Delhi. The tea and Malai reminded me of the numerous tea's i had in shivajinagar, blore(one of the best tea spots in blore). The narrow road where the tea stall was present was similar to that of shivajinagar.
Please leave me as comments if any of you know good tea stalls in blore or in DLF phase 2 city or Delhi.Till then my pursuit for TEA which tastes like tea continues.
Got to go now, it's Teatime!everytime!
