What type of herbal tea is usually served at a chinese restaurant?

Question

What type of herbal tea is usually served at a chinese restaurant?

Answer 1

I think its green tea

Answer 2

herbal teas aren't served in restaurants... herbal teas are like.. medicinal or health-boosting teas. anyways, the cheap tea they serve is usually weak oolong or jasmine, or green or black. you'll find them in asian markets in little boxes really cheap. (usually <$5 for generic jasmine tea or whatever) there's a lot of other teas available for purchase also. the better brands are obviously more expensive.

Answer 3

In Chinese restaurants you normally get green tea. This is tea, not a herbal tea, which should be called tisane, which is a French word meaning infusion (something you pour boiling water over), since it has nothing to do with tea.

Green tea is made from un-fermented tea leaves. When processing tea leaves for black tea, they are fermented.

Green tea in Chinese restaurants can be flavoured with the addition of jasmine, chrysanthemum etc., but it's still basically tea.

Some examples of 'herbal teas' (tisanes) are rose-hip, nettle, calamine, mint. No tea involved!

Answer 4

Cheap one..green tea or watered down regular. Most serve a green tea or jasmine (smells like flowers).

Answer 5

Green Tea

Answer 6

I don't think green tea is categorized under "herbal"; in China there isn't any herbal tea served in Chinese restaurants but there are health beverage outlets (no food) selling only herbal preparation. You might find a few restaurants having chrysanthemum tea which is the closest to being a herbal tea.

Answer 7

In china it's green tea and it's minging!

Answer 8

Herbal tea is not commonly served in Chinese restaurants. The common chrysanthemum & jasmine teas that are served are simply black or green teas scented with those flowers, and are not considered herbal tea.  

Herbal tea in the Chinese context is not any normal tea using tea leaves and not quite like the Western-style infusions. It's more regarded as a medicinal drink, consumed by itself rather than as an accompanying beverage to a meal.

Chinese herbal tea usually is taken for its health benefits & to relieve minor ailments eg. soothe a sore throat. The most common type of herbal tea is probably the cooling varieties (based on the Chinese principle that the foods you eat have heaty or cooling properties that can affect the body). Ingredients for cooling teas are combinations that could include chrysanthemum flower, luo han guo (Fructus Momordicae), jin yin hua (honeysuckle flower), licorice, honey etc.

If you are referring to Chinese teas served in restaurants, popular & well-regarded ones include Long Jing (top-grade green tea), Tie Kuanyin (oolong), Pu Er (black, but Chinese will call it a red tea), Sau Mei (green, Cantonese like it with dimsum).

Answer 9

Jasmine tea is common and does not bloat you like softdrinks.

Answer 10

I agree with the poster above--green tea is not an herbal tea because it is made from tea leaves. Herbal teas are made from other parts of the plant, such as the flowers, buds, etc. So if you look at the tea and see some flower bits, it won't be green tea or any other leaf tea.

Usually the 'default' tea that they serve is chrysanthemum or just whatever they have. (You can ask for different types! My favourite is pu erh, a dark strong tea.)

Answer 11

either green or jasmine

Answer 12

I'm not sure about "herbal tea ", but here oolong is the one tea served.