Here are my favourite mugs for drinking hot beverages, Earl Grey tea, chai or hot chocolate. I LOVE a fine china mug, these are Royal Doulton and Royal Worcester. The latter was purchased in England in 1989, the former here in Canada, in 1987. All are used multiple times daily, in and out of dishwashers and still look like new. I took the orange/lemon mug with me to the hospital, when I had my surgery a few months ago and when my sister and I stayed with my nephew during his hospital admissions, we had these mugs with us. Made a difficult time far more bearable.