Japanese Try to Set World Record for Tea Party

Nishio, Aichi prefecture produces about 50 percent of the powdered green tea that comes from Japan.

And that is a LOT of green tea. Japanese love green tea. You can see them drinking it all day long.

If you meet someone in his/her office, they will serve you green tea.

If you visit someone’s home – green tea.

Stop in to visit your kid’s teacher or principal – green tea.

Sip on something during work – green tea.

If a Japanese were to cut his/her finger, blood would not come out – green tea would.

It’s good for you, too.

On Oct. 8th, 14,718 people attended a tea party held in Nishio. Pairs of tea drinkers sat opposite a 1.5 kilometer (.9 mile) red carpet.

TV personality, Kato Cha was invited. Cha is Japanese for tea. Perhaps the organizers could have invited everyone they knew named Cha to set two world records.

The Chinese expression – for all the tea in China – would come out as – all the green tea in Japan. But the Japanese don’t say that.

Congrats! to Nishio for a new record. Now, please pass the green tea.

Of course, it was also good business for the prefecture and Nishio, too?  

Mainichi News