Given a choice, most of us would want someone to wake us up in the morning with a cup of tea in hands. And while taking the cup in our hands, we would like to stare at her face. It would be an ideal start to the day, we would say.? But let us accept it is a wishful thinking, and does not always work out. Then? Who would make tea for you in the morning? We have recently come across a solution.

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It Helps to be Very Calm. Fook Ming Tong tea shop chief Thomas Lee is a native of Hong Kong, but it was in London, as a student in the 1970s, where he first began brewing a love for Chinese tea.
“My mother cut my expenses. With no money I couldn’t go to bars and enjoy wine, but tea cost me much less,” says Mr. Lee. “In London’s Chinatown, the waiters and managers of all the restaurants used to teach me how to drink tea.”
Now 60, Mr. Lee’s tea empire spans 11 Fook Ming Tong stores in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. He also runs Shiatos Limited, a 35-year-old importer of high-end crystal, porcelain and other luxury goods from Hermès, Lalique and Baccarat into Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. Read Mr. Lee’s full interview: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703964104575334613690188590.html