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دم کردن چای (Dam Kardan-e Chāy): The Art of Persian Tea

Tea (chāy) is as central to Persian culture as the food itself — introduced from China through the Silk Road, it became the defining social ritual of Iranian life. The Persian tea ceremony (dam kardan — literally "giving breath/steam") is a specific technique producing a tea categorically different from any other tradition: very strong, deeply coloured, served in small glass cups (estekān), drunk with sugar held in the mouth rather than dissolved in the tea.

Overview

The Persian tea technique — dam kardan.

Source

PERSIAN CULINARY TRADITION — DEEP EXTRACTION

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Russian tea culture (same samovar tradition — direct cultural transmission), Turkish çay (same two-stage glass-cup tradition — Ottoman-Persian exchange), Chinese gongfu cha (same concentrate-and-dilut