All the Tea in China

[Smithy]

That tea table might seem over-the-top to some (how do you pass things across that large table?) but I can imagine it being fun in the right setting. It reminds me of one of the most interesting bars I've even seen, made from an old tree root system.

 

 

There are more pictures of it here.

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Smithy said:

how do you pass things across that large table?

 

It's not so wide. I think my dining room table (which I never dine from) is about the same, but less long. It doesn't usually have a river down the middle, either. Unless  someone spills their soup!

 

 

[liuzhou]

This, a table in a long gone tea shop in town, was a dugout canoe with a glass top. Inside was a bizarre collection of cultural revolution (1966-1976) paraphernalia.

 

 

The whole place was weird and a massive punch-up broke out seconds after I took this photo. I fled.

 

Punch-ups in bars are highly unusual in China, but in tea shops? Never!

 

The place closed a month later.

 

Edited July 11 by liuzhou (log)

[Smithy]

3 hours ago, liuzhou said:

Punch-ups in bars are highly unusual in China, but in tea shops? Never!

 

 

It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry or "huh" at that. Thanks for the photo and story. Glad you escaped with your skin intact!

[MaryIsobel]

6 hours ago, liuzhou said:

This, a table in a long gone tea shop in town, was a dugout canoe with a glass top. Inside was a bizarre collection of cultural revolution (1966-1976) paraphernalia.

 

 

The whole place was weird and a massive punch-up broke out seconds after I took this photo. I fled.

 

Punch-ups in bars are highly unusual in China, but in tea shops? Never!

 

The place closed a month later.

 

I am trying to invision a "massive punch up" in a tea shop

 

[KennethT]

I wonder what they were arguing about.... Oolong!!! No, green tea!!! No, red tea!!!!!

[liuzhou]

3 hours ago, KennethT said:

I wonder what they were arguing about.... Oolong!!! No, green tea!!! No, red tea!!!!!

 

Maybe someone suggested Lipton's!

 

I don't know what kicked it off. It started in a private tasting room and by the time it became clear what was happening those involved had abandonded any semblance to coherent language and taken instead to grunts and gutteral moans.

 

 

Edited July 12 by liuzhou (log)