This is tea and snack time on the second floor of the Mid-Lake Pavillion Teahouse in Yuyuan Gardens. It's surrounded by water (maybe like venice) and the shop seen outside our window reportedly has the best dumplings in Shanghai.
The tea is Jasmine and flower, I think between us we had an apricot flower, a rose, and a chrysanthemum. The dry tea leaves and a flower are bundled into a little ball, and when they're put in water they bloom and grow!
And we got unlimited water refils so we stayed for half the afternoon.
The tea came with snacks, center back (barely visible) are ravioli-like pressed tofu, center front are candied plums, and at right are duck eggs hard-boiled in soy sauce and water.
Not pictured: a troupe of old men playing classical chinese music at the table behind us.
The tea is Jasmine and flower, I think between us we had an apricot flower, a rose, and a chrysanthemum. The dry tea leaves and a flower are bundled into a little ball, and when they're put in water they bloom and grow!
And we got unlimited water refils so we stayed for half the afternoon.
The tea came with snacks, center back (barely visible) are ravioli-like pressed tofu, center front are candied plums, and at right are duck eggs hard-boiled in soy sauce and water.
Not pictured: a troupe of old men playing classical chinese music at the table behind us.
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