When It Wasn’t Easy to Get Soft Drink

I believe that it’s not difficult for you to get a glass of Coca-Cola or Sprite when you are in US, UK, even in my country. Actually such kinds of soft drink are neither scarce nor luxurious things since they are available in each supermarket and roadside shop. But it will be different if you go to China. While you are having a lunch or dinner at some Chinese restaurants, you won’t meet either Coke or other soft drink above the table even if you ask for them.

This is one of my new inventions when I was going to China at this July. Most Chinese restaurants usually provide one pot of Chinese tea which can be refill repeatedly. Actually that kind of tea has many benefits for our health especially while we are eating large portion of Chinese food. As we have known before that most of all Chinese food usually contain large amount of pork which have a lot of fat inside so that Chinese tea are really useful in those fat reduction. Unfortunately there are some people who don’t like drinking that healthy tea because of its taste and actually I am one of them. Therefore I preferred to drink water or soft drink instead of Chinese tea. It has been a unique adversity when I was there because it was quite difficult to get both of them in my dining table. Even for a glass of cold water, it’s true that several Chinese restaurants don’t provide it. In such condition we better drink Chinese tea even in small amount otherwise we get thirst or hiccup while enjoying our meals.