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After a 20-course fish meal for kings and queens with all the foreign teachers, we browsed the "tea street" in the downtown, looking for the perfect Korean tea set and any other lovely odd or end that caught our eye. We passed calligraphy stores, art stores, tea shops, and herb stores, and wandered into a shop selling tea accessories. A man in traditional costume (but the soft, worn, linen, Buddhist kind, what Scott wants--not the bright outfit used for weddings or parades) sat quietly in the corner, having tea. He invited us to tea with him, and we each sat and marvelled at the rose-scented tea and the calm, deliberate nature of this Eastern ritual. We sipped four baby cups' worth, bowed and thanked, and then slipped back outside into the rainy street.
soft, worn, Buddhist kind, ck [2003-05-19]
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