
Men rest at an open-air tea house in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, September 10, 2007. Although coffee consumption is still less than one-tenth of tea consumption in China, it is becoming increasingly popular among Chinese, especially young people, because of its association with a Western lifestyle. Chinese drink 700,000 tons of tea per year. [Reuters]

A girl rests at a tea house in Chengdu, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, September 10, 2007. [Reuters]

A man prepares to drink a cup at a tea house in Chengdu September 10, 2007. [Reuters]

A man drinks a cup of tea at a tea house in Chengdu, September 10, 2007. [Reuters]