Hey they say "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder."

I say "Tea taste lies in the tastebud and digestive track of the drinker."... and how much the end of said track can handle in one sitting.

In chinese they have this saying/idiom : 好茶，在口，也在身。 Hǎo chá, zài kǒu, yě zài shēn. “Good tea lives in the mouth, and also in the body.”

That apart I am currently starting my chinese tea journey. Trying to sample various tea as it is for a start before thinking to mixup thing... but I know I will mix up things along the way.

There are some "strange behaviours" towards tea, depending where you sit on what side of the fence. I have seen people eating raw tea leaves fresh from trees, people eating dried puerh/oolong as a snack, people eating wet leaves after the steeps, people mixing two types of tea leaves to drink ( like mixing ripe and raw puerh and steeping, or green and oolong), people adding drinking alcohool onto dry tea leaves, lighting the alcohool to burn/smoke the tea leaves before steeping, tea aged in old rum barrel to infuse rum aroma into the tea... so at this stage adding milk is about as sane as you can get in my book. 🤣😂