If only one type is used, eventually the user need only add hot water. Ahn, however, stuffs his teapots with leaves. The result is taste overload, a potent, boiling hot tea-bomb. A group of three men in suits and a woman in business attire enter the shop and take seats next to the huge bank tree table Ahn serves on. They sit quietly while he splashes tea over the wood, the other teapots and the cups, and shoves in another scoop of crisp, dry leaves.
Some people come every day.
The whole process of preparing the tea and serving it in a simple but elegant method takes only a few minutes. Actually drinking it takes even less time. For those with a few minutes to spare in an increasingly complex world, there's no reason not to spend a few of them with Ahn. Copyright 2000 Digital Korea Herald. All rights reserved.