The Burmese do a fermentd tea leaf salad - lahpet thoke. Jitlada, a Los Angeles restaurant specializing in southern Thai food, often written up by the late, great Jonathan Gold, uses tea leaves in a number of dishes. Perhaps in tea producing countries the use of tea leaves, as with other bounty in a region, is used in many ways.
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The Burmese do a fermentd tea leaf salad - lahpet thoke. Jitlada, a Los Angeles restaurant specializing in southern Thai foood, often written up by the late, great Jonathan Gold, uses tea leaves in a number of dishes. Perhaps in tea producing countries the use of tea leaves, as with other bounty in a region, is used in many ways.