It’s not uncommon for people in the Chinese community to prefer drinking hot or warm water over cold or tap, even if that means bringing your own Thermos
n an overheated meeting room and with no access to the thermostat, I was pouring my colleagues glasses of cool water. I held the jug above my teammate’s glass but she politely declined. “I’ve brought my own,” she said, whipping out a Thermos.
My Chinese Malaysian mother does not like cold water. “Ooh, no,” she says, “I’d never drink cold water from the fridge, or even from the tap. It’s especially bad if you have sensitive teeth.”My Guangzhou-born dad, who experiences dentin hypersensitivity, finds warm water “comforting and soothing”. She knows it’s not necessary. “For goodness sake, I live in Melbourne and I know there’s no need to do this when I can drink high-quality water from the tap!”
‘Your Chinese grandma’s fix-all’: warm water fits into the concept of ‘yin and yang’, the foundational principle of Chinese medicine.Warmed water’s remedy-status is shared by Ayurvedic practitioners . This means warm or hot water has a big fan club: the two most populous countries in the world, plus Jan’s mother-in-law.
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