Mauritania cuisine - How to drink tea
Female: Can you tell me a little bit about Mauritanian tea?
Male: Well, Mauritanian tea, we have what would you call it the ceremony of tea and the ceremony of tea is just traditional to cook the tea three times. And every time we served and we add water and cook again the tea and say, the first one usually is strong like birth.
And the second one is feed like love and the third one is life. And if the tea is good, usually that person who made the tea, we have to tell them some new poetry.
Female: Why do you boil it so many times?
Male: First thing, we see that the tea and sugar, each one have some secret and we have to mix them to change their secrets and that’s the plan. We have to some sign about the tea and sugar and we do it also to access rain and tea to have above flavors. Tea without foam is like talking with new signification. It's the second thing, it's very important in this tea to have the foam.
Female: Is that how you make a foam?
Male: Yeah.
Female: Thank you.
Male: Sate.
Female: Sate. Cheers.
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