Mya Than Tint - Tea Shop

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I can't say how many tea shops there are in Yangon. I think there are hundreds of millions of them, let alone in the whole of Myanmar.

Nowadays, it is becoming more and more common. “If you drink tea, you will attain true beauty, and your intentions will be fulfilled,” a teacher from the Mandalay era once said. If you drink tea, you will attain beauty, and your thoughts will be successful. He said this. Sweet tea

I wondered madly if I would get more ideas and be more successful if I drank.

I don't know if it's true or not. Because people are crowded in tea shops. Car trading, stone trading, house trading, land trading, gossip trading, news trading, and goods trading all happen in tea shops.

The great Chinese writer Lau Xie once wrote a long play called “Tea Shop.” The setting of his play is a large tea shop on a main street in Beijing, during the last Manchu dynasty in China, and shows the scenery of a tea shop during that era.

Then the Manchu dynasty fell and the era of warlords ruled over each region. Although the era had changed, the teahouse remained.

I described the scene seen in a teahouse during that period. Then, the Kuomintang era. I described the scene seen in that teahouse during the Kuomintang era.

The teahouse has not changed. It is the teahouse. It describes the scenes and stories found in teahouses over a period of about fifty years. It describes the three great eras of China with a teahouse as the backdrop. Therefore, it is said that Lau She's "Teahouse" is a great record that describes the history of the three great eras of China.

My Tea Shop is not a documentary. It's about a small tea shop in our town.

Before we talk about tea in our city, let's talk about our city.

Our town is a very small town. More than halfway along the Yangon-Mandalay highway and railway, you reach a town in the middle of the city. There you have to change trains. After about eight hours, you reach a big city, which is the terminus of the train route.

It takes three to four hours by ferry from that city. When we arrived at that city, the rain had set in. We couldn't continue to our town. We stayed overnight in that city and then took a two-hour bus ride to our town in the evening. I say "evening" for a different reason. There are no buses that leave our town in the morning. The buses from the town leave in the morning and return in the evening.

So we waited until the evening. We arrived in our town at dusk. If we were to go to our town from Yangon, it would be a two-night and one-day trip.

The journey I mentioned is a bit confusing, isn't it? Yes, our town is quite isolated. It's not that much of a journey to go to London and London, Paris and Beijing, Aberdeen and Athens. You don't have to travel that much. There's only one small shop.

At first, there was no tea shop. Then, when we had a town clerk's office, we started to have clerks and clients. Some of the clients were from our town, some from the countryside. Since they were from the countryside, there were also land disputes. There were also crimes such as beatings, stabbings, murders, cattle theft, and robbery.

There is a small building called a witness booth in the courthouse for witnesses and clients to rest.

The clients and witnesses who came from the forest would unload their carts and rest in that little hut, where they would cook and eat. Then the little hut caught fire. The clients and witnesses had nowhere to rest. A small tea shop appeared next to the office. It was the first tea shop in our town. The owner of the tea shop was U Aung Shu. U Aung Shu was a little tall. He was also a skinny guy. Even in my small town,

I think he has Chinese blood. His name is similar to a Chinese name. His skin is white and his personality is similar to Chinese. He is not from our city. He is from our city and he lives in our city. U Aung Shu always suffers from asthma. In the summer, he gets asthma because it is summer. In the winter, he gets sick because it is winter. In the rainy season, his illness is better. In the rainy season, it is not as bad as the rainy season. The sun is not as hot as the summer. It is not as cold as the winter. In the rainy season, his illness is worse. The rest of the time, he wears a big coat, a small hat on his head, and socks on his feet. .

U Aung Shu and Daw Wook Mi had no children. They were just a couple, so they lived in a loose circle.

When the witness booth caught fire, the clients who came from the forest suffered. Since the witness booth was burned down, the office issued an order not to light a fire in the office premises. The clients and witnesses did not have hot water to drink tea. There were trees nearby, such as tamarind trees and tamarind trees, that provided shade. However, since the city manager's office is in the center of the city, since the witness booth burned down, they were also not allowed to light a fire under the trees nearby. The order also stated that clients and market goers were not allowed to cook.

There are customers, market goers who want to drink hot water but don't have to boil it. There is no need to boil a pot of tea if you want to drink hot water. There are also market goers who can't boil water. Market goers are different. We are talking about those who come to our town to sell at the market, those who come to shop. There is no market every day in our town. There is a five-day market. On market day, people travel fourteen to five miles from our town to sell at the five-day market.

The big rows of carts are bustling. The carts