Egypt: A new destination for Assam tea

Food habits are very peculiar and people are sensitive what they eat and where it comes from. Let me share some experience which is not only strange but such an irony that sometimes I wonder what’s happening out here. Out here in North America, the impression is that Indian food is too spicy and you can feel the fragrance coming out of your clothes, if you have prepared it. So Indians cook their food with closed doors (It is TRUE!!!!) so that GORAS don’t smell it. Now cut this and visit any Indian restaurant here and you will find GORAS eating the same food with all the spices and with such passion that it puts one to shame. Both are true, they like it but will not accept the fact simply because it’s not from their own land. Same goes for TEA, let me share something with you, any business person in EGYPT will know what Assam tea is because when it comes to saving MONEY, and if it is only TEA, they will not mind buying from Assam if it is of same quality and less in price. Now don’t call me a racist, but Egypt is a Muslim country and so is Kenya, another factor. I would like the writer to probe this a bit further, get the statistics that these NETA people have gathered on their visit to Egypt vis-à-vis export promotion of tea. If simply coming back and telling us that Egypt gets 90% of tea from Kenya was the objective, then probably we can leave this issue here but if they have developed some plans to penetrate the Egyptian market, then their trip was something which we can think of being fruitful, else it was another Honeymoon for Old guys on Public money.