Drinking Tea plays an very important part of Chinese eating habits. We normally drink a hot tea after eating all the meal for helping digest or just have a hot cup of tea in the afternoon tea time.
Tea is better than Coffee in some research, it shows that it can prevent cancer and anti-aging. So it is a very good stuff and I encourage all the American or the whole world can drink more tea. Tea is cheapter too. in Starbucks, an iced coffee is like $3 or $4, but a big cup of tea of $0.99 and it is healthier.