teahouses

Curiously enough, while the novel was beginning thus humbly in teahouses, in villages and lowly city streets out of stories told to the common people by a common and unlearned man among them, in imperial palaces it was beginning, too, and in much the same unlearned fashion.

Pearl Buck - Nobel Lecture 1938

Dim sum is a tradition of eating small mouthfuls of exquisitely shaped dumplings, noodles, buns, and other little packets, bits and bites of food that are served in teahouses.

Tigers & Strawberries » Dissing the Dim Sum 2005

“Of course we know what will happen to the teahouses,” he said ominously.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

“Of course we know what will happen to the teahouses,” he said ominously.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

Hundreds of teahouses, suffering from rising utility costs and the myriad effects of the global financial meltdown, have already closed in the past few months.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

Istanbullus fear the ban will destroy vital mainstays of the Turkish community — specifically, the nargile (water-pipe) cafés and the teahouses.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

Hundreds of teahouses, suffering from rising utility costs and the myriad effects of the global financial meltdown, have already closed in the past few months.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

Hundreds of teahouses, suffering from rising utility costs and the myriad effects of the global financial meltdown, have already closed in the past few months.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

Istanbullus fear the ban will destroy vital mainstays of the Turkish community — specifically, the nargile (water-pipe) cafés and the teahouses.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009

“Of course we know what will happen to the teahouses,” he said ominously.

Turkish Smoke-Out 2009