Devi Tea Stall where the best flavor of tea in Chennai

Every morning, going down street with an empty stomach, crossing a tea shop and smelling the sweet scent of tea merging into milk, I can’t help turning into the shop to have some tea and biscuits.

The best tea stall in Chennai in my eyes 

Some people say that it’s considered as tea as the national drink of India. Indian people from the north the south have tea every day. As one of the world’s largest tea growing nations and the second largest consumer, tea for them is as familiar as water. Chennai people are not an exception where tea shop culture has been existing for quiet long time. The heat of the city seems not to be a problem even they are drinking hot tea in the noon. There are thousands of tea shops across Chennai, from the narrow nooks and crannies to the main roads, from the small markets to the shopping centers.

In a narrow road called Mosque Lane that is opposite Cheapauk Stadium, there is a small tea shop named Devi Tea Stall. Nobody knows the reason why this store is always full of customers from the beginning to the closing. They give a simple answer: “Because it (tea) is super”. I cannot be sure that Devi is the best tea shop in Chennai but the best among shops I’ve ever tried.

Sajeevan (40 year-old), who is the owner, said that the stall has been in business for 45 – 50 years. He inherited the stall from his father. “There is no secret, but the good quality of material”, he said. With just Rs. 6, you will get a cup of tea with a great flavor: not too sweet, not too strong ginger, not too acrid. All the tastes are enough for a word “superb”! The customers are mostly people who are living near the tea shop. They just come then are attracted by the flavor of tea and the humor of the owner.