When I tell people I've been to 'High Tea', you'd be surprised at how many thought it was tea that you would drink to get you high. I've always thought it involved wearing bright, flowery clothing and pretentiously drinking tea with your pinky up and nibbling on tiny ass sandwiches that would get you no where near full, and I never thought I'd enjoy it, but I can definitely say I was pleasantly surprised.

So for Trang's birthday, we gathered most of our girls together for high tea at 11am in 'The Tea Room' located on the third floor of Queen Victoria Building. We walked up a small spiraled staircase and into a cozy and extremely elegant foyer where a very well-dressed man in a crisp teal suit lead us to our table.

We were seated comfortably on a large round table near the end of the room, and attended to immediately, while another well-dressed man with a strong British accent placed napkins on our laps and handed out very fancy menus. He then proceeded to explain the history of high tea which involved the Chinese bringing in teas by boat. Interesting fact, there are more than 150,000 teas in the world - they had 20, so about 0.2%. Even then, there were almost 3 pages worth of teas that were new to us.

Our waitress for the day, easily picking up on our confusion, recommended the Traditional Morning Tea at $45 per person, and a variation of black, and sweet teas for each person to choose. With most of us being so inexperienced with this level of fine dining, we decided on four different teas for the table - Wild Berry, Heaven & Earth, Chai and Orange Pekoe, which were included in the price.



Now onto the teas - we had two sweet (Wild Cherry and Heaven & Earth) and two black (Chai and Orange Pekoe). The set comes with unlimited tea, so every half an hour or so the waitress would refill our teapots. The sweet teas were slightly bland, so we added a cube of sugar, which was a really bad idea because it left it tasting like sugary water with a bitter aftertaste. The waitress highly recommended the Orange Pekoe for us to have with our Traditional English Tea in place of the typical English and Irish teas, and honestly it was the best one, even over the Chai tea, which had a very strong cinnamon taste -  mix it with some milk and a cube of sugar and it's gourmet milk tea.