In the Palermo Hollywood neighbourhood, Porota offers delectable passion fruit muffins and cheese scones to accompany the hot tea beverage.

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Eating of sugar was driven by drinking of tea, and sweetened tea had become the beverage of choice.

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Anyone who sends a tweet to the machine while standing in front of it will receive a free sample of BOS Ice Tea, a popular organic beverage made in South Africa from Rooibos, an indigenous plant which locals have used to make traditional tea for hundreds of years.

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And Taiwan introduced the world to Bubble Tea, a sweet milky beverage containing little pearls of tapioca.

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England is world-famous for its afternoon tea, in which the beverage is served with finger sandwiches, scones and petit fours.

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