It smells Indian Chai

Long ago, the famous historian Dr. R.C. Majundar wrote about the traditional Chinese way of thinking. Once something belongs to China, it belongs to China forever. 
Majundar explained:

There is one aspect of Chinese culture that is little known outside the circle of professional historians. It is the aggressive imperialism that characterized the politics of China throughout the course of her history, at least during the part of which is well known to us. Thanks to the systematic recording of historical facts by Chinese themselves, an almost unique achievement in oriental countries.... we are in position to follow the imperial and aggressive policy of China from the third century BC to the present day, a period of more than twenty-two hundred years ...It is characteristic of China that if a region once acknowledged her nominal suzerainty even for a short period, she should regard it as a part of her empire for ever and would automatically revive her claim over it even after a thousand years whenever there was a chance of enforcing it

Now the problem is that even when it does not belong to China, China can appropriate it. I am not speaking about Tibet here.
This article found on the China Tibet Online, shows that the Indian Chai has become a 'specialty' of Lhasa. 
It may be laughable, unfortunately, the same thing is happening today to Buddhism which is promoted as a Chinese philosophy.
"Please China, return to India what belongs to India."

Sweet tea: special drink of Lhasa
China Tibet Online
2012-05-02
Yanina
Tourists visiting Lhasa, capital of Tibet would never miss the sweet tea caffs scattering about the city. Sweet tea has become a specialty drink of this noted historical and cultural city.
Then how is the sweet tea made?
The tea is made from black tea, milk powder and white sugar. The making process is as follows:
(Note: The amount of the materials used in this article is as much as that needed for making 20 kilograms of sweet tea.)
The first step: to boil the black tea. Put 50g of tea in a cloth bag and boil the bag in boiling water for about five minutes. Then remove all the water from the bag and get the remains out of the bag.
Using the cloth bag is to filter the tea remains.
When boiled in water, the bag is carried and swayed.
The second step: put two kilograms of milk powder into the tea and stir it up. When the milk powder is added, froth will lather and the mixture should be stirred and slowly the froth will fade away.
The Third step: to add about 650g of white sugar into the tea and stir it up.
(Note: the mixture must be boiled, or you will feel swelled up after drinking.)
The forth step: to put 100g of black tea into the bag and boil it for five minutes in the mixture again.
The fifth step: all the processes are completed and the sweet tea is ready for drink. The tea can be filled into thermos to keep it hot.

Don't eat cat

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Except an advice, avoid eating cat soup!


In China, cat soup to die for?
In China police say a business tycoon died when he ate a dish of prized cat soup. The soup was poisoned.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Ford, Staff writer
January 6, 2012
Beijing
Serves him right, you might think, for tucking into Mittens.
Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong say that local business tycoon Long Liyuan died when he ate a dish of deliberately poisoned cat soup.
Diners in Guangdong, known in English as Canton, are well known for their exotic culinary tastes. They boast that they will eat “everything on the table except the legs.”
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That habit can have tragic consequences – and not just for the snakes, rats, monkeys, and scaly anteaters that get tossed into Cantonese pots. The SARS outbreak in 2003 that killed 321 people in mainland China is thought to have started when someone in Guangdong ate a civet cat carrying the disease.
But it wasn’t the cat that killed Mr. Long, according to police. It was the extract of Gelsemium elegans, a poisonous creeper known as “heartbreak grass,” that local official Huang Guang put in the cat hotpot.
Mr. Huang owed Long money and could not pay it back, according to the Legal Daily newspaper, so he invited his creditor to lunch with another man, and poisoned the food. The third man found his cat soup “more bitter” than usual and ate only a little, according to media reports. Huang himself – presumably so as not to arouse suspicion – ate a healthy portion and almost went blind, while Long went into cardiac arrest and died.
Huang confessed to the murder after a lengthy interrogation, according to the Legal Daily.
Cat meat is prized in Guangdong not so much for its taste as for its symbolism. Cats are a stand-in for tigers, in the same way that chickens represent the phoenix and snakes do duty at the table for dragons.
Tigers, phoenix birds, and dragons are powerful animals in Chinese iconography, though what they taste like, I have no idea.