New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today demonstrated to Chinese President Xi Jinping how he used to serve tea as a humble ‘chaiwala’ many years ago, live feed from Wuhan showed.
This is what transpired. Modi and Xi took a leisurely boat ride on the picturesque East Lake in Wuhan city on the final day of an ice-breaking summit. On disembarking, they were greeted with steaming cups of tea.
After sipping on the hot beverage from miniature tea cups, Modi had an animated discussion with Xi and the attendants conducting the tea ceremony. The Indian PM curiously peered into the colourful tea pots in which the tea leaves were steeped, before reaching for a silver kettle placed next to them.
While we can only conjecture what Modi told Xi and the others, his gestures made it apparent that the Prime Minister was displaying how he served tea to his customers when he was a tea seller on a railway station in Gujarat.
