4+1 things to do on a long haul
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| Do it your self "Hookah" The hookah is usually made of 4 components. The bowl, or the head of the hookah is a container made from clay or marble is used to hold the coal and tobacco.The bowl is loaded with tobacco, and covered with alluminium foil and perforated with tiny holes. Hot bits of charcoal is placed on it allowing the tobacco to be heated up. The plate is used to keep your supply of hot coal. The body of the hookah is hollow (to let the smoke flow through) with a gasket at the bottom. The gasket has one minimum opening for the hose but can have multiple openings making it a multi hosed hookah. (usually for the longer bodied ones) Theres a valve at the bottom, near the connection of the gasket and the water jar. It controls the air intake into the hookah. Closing it decreases the dillution rate, thus creating more intense smoke. How it Operates The glass jar is filled with sufficient water to submerge the inner tube which is attached tightly to it. Tobacco is placed inside the bowl on top of the hookah with burning charcoal on the tin foil. When you inhale, air is sucked and heated by the hot charcoal, heats up the Tobacco, producing smoke, passing through the tube into the water, up the hose and into your lungs. Tobacco/Molasses Tradisionally tobacco is mixed with sugar based syrup together with bits of fruits and extract to give it the sweet fragrant smell. Some times these flavours are derived from adding artificial flavourings including the all time favourites, mint, apple, chocolate and others. Blending flavours has become the latest "in" thing, which smokers think it gives a more complex flavour. Effects of Shisha Some might think that smoking shisha isnt as harmful as cigarretes, but the real truth is, because of the prolonged period of smoking shisha it exposes the smoker to more smoke. The water absorbs only little amounts of nicotine from the smoke, thus making it addictive. "Using the waterpipe for 45 minutes, could triple nicotine, exposure and substantially increase your intake of carbon monoxide, plasma nicotine and heart rate. Did you know the amount of TAR (mg) from 1gm of Shisha Tobacco is almost 72 times the same yield from 1gm of cigarette? Here are some sites for additional reading. Last but not least, we know you enjoy a puff of shisha. Just like anything else, do it responsibly. http://hookahculture.com |
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| "Chinese Tea is a beverage, Chinese tea is a pass time, Chinese tea is a culture" Waste no time, Lets do Chinese Tea" - www.chinese-tea.net. Weather its CHA in mandarin, CHAI in Arabic, or TEE in German, Tea is still the worlds most popular beverage. The english word TEA came about when the English traded tea with the Chinese, the Chinese called it TAY and was pronounced TEA by the English. Chinese Legend has it, Tea was discovered by the Chinese Emperor Shennong in 2737 BC when a leaf from the Camellia Sinensis tree fell into the emperors boiling water. Chinese tea was probably first found in the South-West part of China where the tropical climate which was humid was great for the tea trees. Apparently if you go there now, you can still find huge 2700 yr old wild tea trees and 800 yr old planted tea trees there. Theres 4 categories of tea- Green, White, oolong and black. The difference? White and green tea is cooked after picking, to avoid fermentation (by natural enzymes in leaves), Oolong is semi fermented and black teas are fully fermented. The more fermented the tea leaves are, the stronger the flavour is.  |
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