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I don't like tea, except the kind they serve at Chinese restaurants, and that I only like with two or three little packets of sugar per teacup.
Ok - well on a related note... I find that I only like the taste of water if I'm actually thirsty... if I'm just drinking as a kind of fidgeting (or when some diet-book had told me I should "drink 8 cups a day") I hate the taste too.
YMMV, of course, but worth considering.
As to the "8 cups a day" - my aunt's a dietician and she says that the 8-cups is inclusive of the water that you consume via other sources (eg in your food or your morning cuppa joe)... whereas most diet books assume it's 8-cups on top of all your other dietary sources.
There's no evidence that 8 cups a day does any good-- I can't find a link, but when the debunking first came out, it turned out that there was no source for the idea that 8 cups a day was worthwhile.
I've found that drinking until it's no longer a pleasure (I generally don't mind the taste of water, though I think Aquafina tastes of plastic) leaves me feeling better than just drinking until I'm not thirsty, and the former takes a good bit more water.
Yup - I also recall that the human sense of thirst is particularly unreliable (though cannot remember the source).
It's definitely less reliable than the sense of hunger - and we all know that that can be faulty.
There's a "dieting trick" that I've heard of whereby if you feel a little like snacking - you should first try drinking a glass of water... because your body can often mistake one for the other.
Around here, Chinese restaurants tend towards jasmine tea. If you care, you could ask someone who knows about tea what's typical in your area.
Jasmine oolong specifically? (I read once that oolong was the traditional kind of tea to drink after/during a Chinese meal, but haven't seen any sources for it.)
I don't know. It tastes flowery, is light-colored, and doesn't get bitter if it sits for a while.
Light-colored? Probably a kind of green, then; oolongs are usually pretty dark-colored (but on the other hand, greens can get bitter if they sit for a while).
It's possible that I don't leave jasmine tea that long.