One of the features I find most attractive about going to a Chinese restaurant or eating a sushi dinner is the quantities of green tea that one can drink. I have always found this mild beverage a wonderful way to wash down a meal, though this is not a feeling shared by every body in the family. 
Being a tea drinker in the midst of coffee-loving friends and family, I kept fairly quiet about my preference, till the benefits of drinking green tea became fairly common knowledge.
In fact, the presence of a catechin called EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) in green tea is said to give it strongly antioxidant properties, and could be one of the reasons why Japanese men are less liable to have heart attacks and strokes even though their diets and lifestyles are comparable to Americans. Getting used to drinking a couple of cups of hot water every day, flavoured with wholesome green tea, seems to have a great deal to recommend it. Of course, the purity of the tea, and it's judicious use are important prerequisites to getting the best out of it. Find out more about warnings doctors have issued against excessive use. You may also be interested in one absolutely fabulous feature of green tea - it's helpful role in losing weight!
All in all, the green cup is one more reason to go Oriental.
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