Tea, sweetened with talk and tamale

Jiangnan is as moist as Sichuan, but Jiangnan people have a sweet tooth. The amount of pepper a typical Sichuan family consumes a day can last a month in my hometown. We prefer green tea, especially Hangzhou's Dragon Well (longjing) or Suzhou's Green Snail Spring (biluochun), sipped at a moderate speed - until it turns so insipid you can no longer get the tea taste out of it.