Monsoon TEA – ScandAsia

What you need to know about tea, the second most quaffed drink in the world, after water!

Until just a few days ago, I always thought tea was a drink you imbibed when your stomach was upset after a food poisoning or stomach flu, now I know better. Of course I have also enjoyed an “Afternoon tea” or a “Five o’clock” tea several times, but tea has never been able to surpass my fondness and affinity for coffee.

Since I got to know a Swedish man Kenneth Rimdahl, founder and CEO of “The Monsoon Thai Tea”, I have broadened my knowledge about tea and I now realize that tea is a whole and separate science, comparable to wine.

First of all, I had no idea that Thailand has its own tea and that, from the earliest of times. Thai people were eating tea leaves rather than drinking it. We are all familiar with the classic tea types such as English Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey,…