How do you like your tea aka chai? I like mine, depending upon my mood, with a degree of ginger. Sometimes a subtle feel of it and other times a strong hit of it. I usually add ginger to the tea when it has just started to boil and then stir it so it becomes slightly cold and will take an extra bit more to boil again. I have followed this method without change for a long long time except for this brief interval when I met this date at their house. I noticed how they boiled water with ginger before even adding the tea leaves. That felt really off and so I asked. I was told this ensures ginger leaves its max effects (or flavour) into the water to which later milk and tea leaves are added. I tried this method couple of times. One, the taste didn’t seem much different and two, it just felt tedious, one extra step thrown in for not much of a good reason. And so I abandoned this new method and got back to my old tried-and-tested one.