In the fifth chapter Luwuh describes the method of making tea. He eliminates all ingredients except salt. He dwells also on the much-discussed question of the choice of water and the degree of boiling it. According to him, the mountain spring is the best, the river water and the spring water come next in the order of excellence. The Cake-tea is roasted before the fire until it becomes soft like a baby's arm and is shredded into powder between pieces of fine paper.
Salt is put in the first boil, the tea in the second.
Then the beverage was poured into cups and drunk. The filmy leaflet hung like sealy clouds in a serene sky or floated like waterlilies on emerald streams. I only feel the breath of cool wind that rises in my sleeves. Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. The last is unfortunately lost.