Who Invented Chai? Well, It's Complicated | AJ+ 

That's true I remember I asked my uncle once to drink shaah and he said if you drink it you will know every secret in the world I actually believed it SOMALILAND FOREVER

No brother Qaat is big part of your culture, everyday life ;-) All the admiration and reverence from a brother in Arabia.

@@williammarston1861 Not a brother and qaat is a cancer

@@dramaqueen465 sister how do u make ur shaah?

totally professional some people call is chai

true . . . with ice and lemon wedges, no milk, lots of sugar, very thin black tea

America is a big place with lots of tea options. Most bottled tea is like southern sweet tea, but I think the most popular teas in southern california (where i’m from) are english/irish breakfast teas and taiwanese/east asian milk teas. I’d love to see a survey on this though :^)

@@ibrahimahmad3917 It's Ice Tea actually and no Chai is very clearly tea with milk and spices. That just is what it is.

@@justpreeth, cai (cay is the word for tea in Turkish) is just plain black tea with or without sugar in a lot of places worldwide.

Masala Chai is from India only

They got too narrow viewpoint. I think they make conclusion first then derive hypothesis and proofs.

@@shankysays I think the context in which they were speaking made it clear that they meant "consumption of tea in cultures outside of mainland China", and that they were just saying "tea" for the sake of brevity, maybe they should have gone into greater depth on precolonial tea cultivation, or maybe that would have distracted from the focus of video. I could see either point argued, and I do think it is valid of Ruijter to complain about the video glossing over that part of tea's history, but I don't think it is fair to say that they were working backwards from their conclusions. Sorry to disagree.

@Foreign Policy both

"Chai” is the Chinese word of Tea as well

say indian

BuddyL what is cairo smoked sausage

You must be white.😂😂😂😂

It is delicious. Made with milk, ghee, a little salt, black tea

Tibetan tea is SUPER different. Salty and buttery. And yet absolute awesomeness. I am sitting at a cafe in Delhi's Tibetan colony while typing this :D

mickey morgan is salty tea soup-like?

No. It was discovered in China

marvin mandela I told an indian frd that chai origined from China, he was so shocked and had to check it on google

It’s not always colonial. Cultures that acquired tea through the overland route from China knew it as a form of the Mandarin name ‘chá’ (茶). The Persians passed it on as ‘chay’ (چای) to the Russians, while the Arabs called it ‘shay’. Swahili acquired the name this way through traders from the Middle East, and not European colonials. On the other hand, cultures that encountered Chinese tea through the sea trade knew it by the name in the dialect from the coastal province of Fujian: ‘te’. The Dutch acquired tea via Fujian, and carried the term to Europe. That’s why most European languages call tea by some version of ‘te’. The Portuguese, on the other hand, had their own Chinese port at Macao, where the ‘chá’ term was used. The Portuguese call tea ‘chá’.

This is actually incorrect in that Tamils a large south indian ethnic group had tea far before the brits arrvied due to historic ancenstral trade routes to china as well as indonesia and cambodia...Its not even called Chai (a north indian word) so quit stereotyping and over generalizing. Also you gloss over east India (the seven sisters) and their historic tea roots not all of india is north india some indians have been drinking tea far before brits arrived.

Rohan Misra it is colonialism at work because ppl tend to forget there were trade before the brits came

Debo Datta You keep saying this but produce no sources.

Hargish Borah yes

Yeah 😍😍

Best tea leaves, I've heard. Unfortunately, this North Indian over here can't afford it. 😂

Yeah Arunima 😂

And we called it cha

NOPE the leaves is actually FROM China. The British took It to be planted in the subcontinent

mansoor tanweer The history of how chili peppers were globally distributed is an amazing story in of itself. The Spanish brought them to North Africa during the wars against the Ottomans in 1540 to 1580, and the Arabs began trading them east to Persia and India

Ooooh, I didn't know that. It would be cool to see.

but now a days people even in northern provinces eat spicy food. i just visited Peshawar a couple of years ago where i ate biryani and it was spicy. biryani was not even popular in Punjab kpk and balochistan until the early 2000. we use to eat pulaos and other rice dishes. but today biryani and spicy foods are popular through out the country thanks to the muhajirs who brought a beautiful culture with them.

kashmir daily Heya, Mr. Kashmiri! North Indian over here. Hope you are doing well, Kashmir is often so troubled (I don't get _what_ our governments are doing to help, if anything).

Hiii.. What about you, what do you know and think about kashmir_political perspective.... Geographical... Etc.

kashmir daily I think Indian Government is to blame for a lot of it and I understand why Kashmiri citizens feel so against remaining with India. We gave you special status, but that has ended up excluding you from proper integration with rest of the nation. The government has meddled with your state elections a lot of times and I have never heard anyone from the centre acknowledge it, let alone apologise. I also am aware of - only a little though - of all the human rights violation AFSPA has caused by abusing their power, including many ugly cases of sexual assault. Where is your justice there? But there is also immense strategic importance to the area. I can see why India does not want to let go, for it will then make Pakistan taking over a strong possibility, making India very vulnerable. As for Kashmiri independence, I don't think powerhouses like India and Pakistan would ever let that happen. All this struggle over territory truly sucks and while I am trying to gather what I learnt from school and news, _you_ people are living it in reality. It is directly affecting you. I can't really understand your fear or situation no matter how hard I try. But I will do my best to keep aware of every territory's political stance. My parents, for example, are adamant on Kashmir being India's and only India's. But I don't want to ignore all the mistakes my gov. made out of some misplaced sense of 'patriotism'. That is all, I guess.

Dear Arunima Tiwari, I am agree with you. But the fact is that kashmir has more unemployment rate why, we have been targeted and murdered bet. economic growth is deteriorating, daily wages are more less, you wouldn't believe what conditions are here, we have been targeted outside kashmir on what they called love jihad and all that. Does not have became Indian government communal. Why is this so, after all we love our country. inspite of separate constitution. we are human we want peace, development but we are worsening and involved in new conflictual segments day by day.... And have hardly any choice of future. But we hope that good days will come soon..... Thanks.

kashmir daily I hope so too. I went on a college trip to Srinagar three years ago when tensions were high. I saw how stagnant the economy is and how scared the citizens are with my own eyes. I hope you guys find leaders who lead you out of this. Meanwhile, I will study up on all that I have been missing out on about J&K. I should know way more as an Indian.

gingergreek once a German told me she doesn’t drink beer from can so make me say I don’t drink tea from tea bag 😂😂 so competitive

nah brah the proper way is having loose leaf tea in an infuser and boiling it. No additives no nothing.

K M Right, I've alerted M.I.5 and the queen about your outrageous statement. Hope you like prison food pal. K M yeah dude I enjoy that kind of tea a lot, but I'm also lazy lol

well im north african frm egypt & since we have been colonised most of our history i wouldn't know what it used to be but now we drink it black or with milk or with mint so nothing specific still...

milk in tea isn't the "proper" way lol its the bastardized form. good black teas should be flavorful, but not bitter/acidic to the point where you need milk in it - that is a result of the British "exporting" black teas through stealing a small handful of black tea plants and two chinese people lol. you cant selectively breed such a small gene pool, you got what you got, so you all ended up with acidic bitter black tea that needs milk. ive tried it and its nasty.

Same for iranian tea, tho I've barely seen anyone putting milk in their black tea

joimy95 the brits basically dumped all the opium to China and started a war cuz they want tea that bad and China want nothing from them

Lisa Ya-Han Chang true brits like otger euros were true a holes.

Jigme Choedzin Balasidis at current the Brits drink more coffee than tea.

So you're saying they're reverting to their old ways? That may well be. :-)

No

And yes of course Masala chai is from Desi Land

Fida Bugti She was pakistani now she's American. Like We all were indians before pakistan but now pakistanis.

Abu Ahmed I'm not sure who this "we" is but a lot of us pakistanis never were indian before

rahul ok fine anything else you want to say ?

rahul well it's might be part of Hinduism that they worship cow's cricket player, snakes, Fire etc . Well about rommal picture it's my baby not your you should not be bother about it poor creature with narrow mind Indian

rahul anything else you want to add?

Eh... atleast watch the video before commenting...

Agasthya Rana 😂😂😂😂😂

Amit das Didn't know I cracked a joke haha

Ziggy Tafari you living in a dream wake up

Hahahah this is gold