Tea vs Coffee

[Anirban Halder]

India is fairly divided over consumption of Tea vs Coffee. Tea is predominantly "Chai" and rarely green or black tea; very popular in Northern India.
Coffee (or Filter Coffee) is everywhere in Southern India. Some are small shop, some are large ones. But they are everywhere. Here's few pics shot at different parts of India.

Let me start with Tea first:
#1.  Chaiwala at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh:


#2.


#3. Tea shop in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Chai/Tea in Gujarat contains more milk/cream than tea leaves.


#4.


#5. Tea in making...

[Anirban Halder]

#6. Some likes to drink from cup/saucer


#7. Another chai-wala in Ahmedabad


#8. You pay little less if you don't need fancy cup/saucer.


#9. This tea-stall is also someone's living.


To be continued...

[Jakov Minić]

Anirban, these are beautiful and colorful images!
I am a coffee and ice-tea guy, I guess I am divided

[Airy]

I'm eager to know the coffee-side now.

[Anirban Halder]

Thanks Jakov. Glad that you mentioned. There's no room for ice in either tea or coffee in India unless you go to the fancy coffee shops a.k.a Starbucks or Coffee Day (Indian Starbucks)! 

#10. Speaking of colorful..

[Fons Baerken]

Chai, 'characharachara' everywhere in India, railwaystations, streetcorners etc, couldnt stomache the sweet dudhchai, always asking for kale cha chiney nahe.

Expressive series illustrative of the streetlife.

[Frank Fremerey]

Wow Wonderful Colorful Love these More.

[Anirban Halder]

Chai, 'characharachara' every in for India, railwaystations, streetcorners everywhere, couldnt stomache the sweet dudhchai, always asking for kale cha chiney nahe.

Expressive series illustrative of the streetlife.

Thank you Fons. You seem to have vivid memories of chai-walas in India. 
I'm also kale cha (black tea) person.

I'm eager to know the coffee-side now.

Here you go Airy.

#11. Filter coffee machine and coffee decoction



#12. Make sure milk is burning hot.



#13. Pour it with style



#14. "Brahmin's Coffee bar". You get only one kind of coffee here "Filter Coffee".



#15. Of-course South Indian breakfast with coffee.


#16. Inside "Brahmin's Coffee bar"



#17.



#18. Coffee glass is too hot to hold so the extra glass.. 

[atpaula]

Very informative and pleasant to see.
Thank you for sharing these pics.

[Anirban Halder]

Thank you Frank, Aguinaldo.

[Thomas Stellwag]

very informative, without beeing just a documentary shot.
It is street life in an excellent way and staying with one
theme makes it tangible for people like me

[Akira]

I love any sort of tea, the Indian chai is no exception!  And I'm kind of tea addict.  Thanks, Anirban, for stimulating my addiction! 

Does "wala" mean "shop" or "stand"?

[Jacques Pochoy]

"Wala" would mean "guy", as in chaï-wala or Bengali-wala (guy from Bengal) ! :-)

In my young days, those shops were precious stops along the roads, for the truckers. Charpoïl and chaï for everyone ! Mostly in thick glasses (never saw a cup) ans so hot you couldn't really hold it. Drinking it so hot was a sort of art, but then it did cool you on, on very hot days !
I've still kept the habit to drink tepid or slightly hot on summer days (my family thinks I'm a bit nut) :-)

Most of our trips (to get to lorries that were either hijacked or broken down) were along the Great Trunk road or North to Nepal via Assam. I didn't see a lot of coffee in those parts !

Thank you for those nice pictures... :-)

[John Geerts]

Great series, Anirban. But why do they 'waste' their coffee with milk? 

[Akira]

"Wala" would mean "guy", as in chaï-wala or Bengali-wala (guy from Bengal) ! :-)

In my young days, those shops were precious stops along the roads, for the truckers. Charpoïl and chaï for everyone ! Mostly in thick glasses (never saw a cup) ans so hot you couldn't really hold it. Drinking it so hot was a sort of art, but then it did cool you on, on very hot days !
I've still kept the habit to drink tepid or slightly hot on summer days (my family thinks I'm a bit nut) :-)

Most of our trips (to get to lorries that were either hijacked or broken down) were along the Great Trunk road or North to Nepal via Assam. I didn't see a lot of coffee in those parts !

Thanks, Jacques!  That makes sense.  I drink hot tea even in the dog days.