There is this history in the old Dutch Indies of Batavia. During a cholera outbreak, the dutch realized that the chinese was not affected by it so they decide to investigate. They found that chinese only drink tea, and concluded that drinking tea was the key to avoid cholera. Then they started to put tea leaves into drinking water which is useless. Why? Because they did not boil the water first and only add tea leaves..
@@turningnull2538 Alcohol helps, but the more important thing is that beer needs to be boiled in the brewing process. Beer has a very low alcohol content, many microbes can still exist in beer if they are introduced after boiling.
As a chinese, this is my childhood: When I drink hot water my parents be like: 🙂 good job you are gonna live to 100 years old. When I drink cold water my parents be like: call 🚑, quick.
That's weird. It was my understanding COLD water is absorbed by the body better and promotes hydration. Isn't it possible the Chinese simply developed the custom of drinking hot water due to unsanitary conditions? They...were trying to prevent the spread of illnesses. It would explain the lemon also. In the West, people customarily drank alcohol to prevent that but they were able to develop water treatment procedures later.
@@DEVINdevdev I understand your position. It is an easy one to take, a simple one even. There is no challenge in it, and therefore no opportunity for growth. It's OK man. We all have our own pace of growth.
I actually started drinking hot boiling water because of my coworkers (Chinese, Korean, Cantonese, etc.). They saw me get cold water and said "No, No, No, hot water good for you and your stomach." From then on that is all I drink at work, home and restaurants (I ask for a tea). I actually noticed I was able to drink 2 Liters of water a day (because ot was hot) and also helped me not like sweets as much (hence, help me lose weight).
When you're thirsty drinking cold water does 2 things: the cold cools you off and the water hydrates you. Here's the catch; your body will immediately feel the effects of the cooling sensation _before_ the water is absorbed into the body. This chilling sensation will trick you into thinking you've drank enough water so you stop earlier than you probably should. Warm water won't trick you to stop drinking too early and is absorbed into the body faster thus hydrating you sooner.
And there's a corallary question of why western people drink cold water. Is it because ice and refrigeration in the past was expensive and difficult to get, and therefore a luxury, a status symbol? I've heard that it 'has more oxygen', but that seems obviously wrong. I myself find cold water refreshing and delicious, but I wonder how it became so universally popular in the west.
for me, cold water is refreshing only in the summertime or whenever it gets sweltering hot, in the winter, or whenever I get sick or have a sore throat I drink hot water and hot tea.
Actually, there might be some truth to the "more oxygen" idea, as gases are more soluble in cold liquids (hence carbonated drinks going flat sooner in hotter temperatures), but I don't know if that would be a significant enough difference to cause any true physical effect. It does seem to have a sort of placebo effect though, which could contribute to this. Personally, I don't drink much water myself (tea is my beverage of choice), but I prefer my water carbonated, hence I tend to have it cold. With virtually any other drink I go for hot, because they're just so much more pleasant that way.
chinese person here, and to be honest, i don’t really know! my mom gives me hot water since i was a child and i just grew with it, hot water just give me a relaxed feeling most of the time
It's just a beverage. We all drink water after all but we're adding some extra taste like coffee or tea. In summer everyone looks for cold water but I personally find environmental temperature water to be the best for me.
@@kevinclass2010 hhh I am typing this while drink hot water. It does give me a relaxed feeling. I used to like cold water when I was younger, but now... meh. I guess hot water just kinda grew in me.
The reason why my fam stick to warm water is because of the TCM, the Yellow emperor sutra explained it well. Plus we’ve experienced the effects of cold and warm water ourselves
My Irish Grandmother would have hot boiling water and sip it. She loved tea but she swore by hot water. Her brother did too. They both lived to their 90s and both would happen to ask for this beverage if not having tea, at any time. Day or night. She was very wise.
I’ve heard that drinking it in hot weather is more cooling. Still, as an American I admit that I love my ice. I will give it a try. My girlfriend is Chinese. When she visits the first thing she does her is fire up my kettle and fill her thermos.
I'm Chinese,I don't drink hot water but warm water. Even if the weather is very hot I don't drink cold water. There aren't any cold beverages in my fridge. Even if I'm eating outside I never order cold drinks. Drinking warm water cures my cold hand and feet, no more menstrual cramp and stomachache.
You get the point, it's not simply which one is better, it depends on the climate and the diet. I live in North part of China, my high school teacher used to pay an academic visiting to USA for several months, when he came back he told us he kept drinking warm/hot water in the first weeks and soon he got aphthous ulcer, from then on he realized why the hotel was offering ice. He started drinking ice water and the ulcer all gone. He guess it's because the diet and climate were different from we had in China. Me myself I drink both, either is fine, depends on which one makes me feel better. If cold drinks make you feel comfortable then why not?
@@eleongo I think in Chinese you can just refer to hot water as "kai shui" (which technically means boiled water) because hot water is the Chinese standard, as the video may have also implied. So by saying "liang kai shui" (which translates to boiled water that's been cooled down) it specifies that the water is at least no longer hot.
@@贺如歌 haven't we had enough comfort? Doing the right thing isn't always comfortable. Telling people to operate in comfort on something so easy causes laziness and weakness and some can never lift themselves to handle the business they need to. You're basically saying they don't need to be the best version of themselves just because it feels good. Might feel good for a minute but over time there will be some undesired consequences
As a family member of multiple TCM doctors, they’ve brought out many cases as examples related to drinking hot/warm water vs cold water. Drinking cold water none-stop (like mainstream western culture) can cause to long term health issues that are hard to diagnose in the western medicine field. Just like everything else, it’s good in moderation, but once you abuse it that’s a problem. Also right after working out it’s best not to chug cold/freezing water. It’s the equivalent of dumping cold water on a hot stone, the stone cracks
It's more it causes excess stress on the system and slows down the absorption of water as it has to be warmed up to close to body temperature. SO in effect you actually are burning more calories just to absorb that ice cold water.
My family is Guyanese, and I grew up drinking warm to hot water with dinner and before bedtime. They said its to clean up your digestive system. Which, hey it works!
Here in Malaysia, we too love drinking hot or at the very least lukewarm water. I grew up in a Malay family, who strictly bans storing water in the fridge for consumption. Maybe we are influenced by the Chinese culture and thoughts in regards to health and body temperature.
I'm gonna start doing this. I've been drinking room temperature water for decades after being exposed to the idea that it is better for the body. This is a very interesting concept.
I'm American but I grew up in Malaysia and now all my Asian friends here in the states say I am a true Asian because I prefer my water at least room temperature, if not a little warm. I haaaate ice and my American friend always fusses that I don't have an ice maker lol.
I'm from Florida and drank ice cold drinks my whole life. I moved to western Washington almost 10 yrs ago. I didn't even notice until my best friend came to visit for my wedding that I didn't use ice anymore. She's like "you're gonna just drink room temp like that???" She was hilariously appalled Lmao I figured maybe climate has something to do with it? 🤷🏻♀️
As a Westerns, once you start drinking warm water you'll find it that it becomes really hard to drink cold water, especially in the morning. I thought it was strange at first but 10 years later I'm still doing it.
So true. I only drink cold water if it's the only thing available. Room temperature or hot is my preference. I feel better. My body feels so relaxed and balanced.
I've tried all temps, and I just tend to drink more water if it's cold, even in winter. Hot or warm water fills me up faster and I don't drink as much. Kind of a problem when you're prone to kidney stones...
And it works that way in the human body too, cold and cool liquids have to be heated up to close to body temperature before active digestion can begin.
If you drink a hot drink...or a cold drink...how long do you think it stays that way as it enters the stomach full of fluid at 37C? I'll give you a hint. Perhaps a few seconds.
Makes sense to drink warm/hot water to balance the body's ying and yang, since your body isn't ice cold. But I just hate drinking hot water, I find the more hot water I drink the thirstier I get. Nothing like a glass of ice cold water to quench thirst even in winter.
Room temp is fine. Doesn't always have to be hot, just as long as it's not ice cold. Take too long for the body to warm it up and if you have food in your stomach, forget it!
Drinking hot water helped trick my mind thinking it was drinking hot tea so I could give up tea, and coffee caffeine addiction. It works so well I got my Uncle off his caffeine addiction and my cousin too. I still drink hot water as my body craves it. When I visited some people’s house they ask if I wanted tea or coffee ? I said no thank you just boiled water with a little cool water from tap. They thought I was a nut. So I explained they still thought I was nuts ..... a year on I found out ....now they drink hot water too.
@@ronaldoggha1801 that's so ignorant influence=/=descent might as well drag the rest of the sinosphere in are the Japanese 'chinese'? are the Vietnamese 'chinese'? genetically speaking Koreans are on average closer to some Siberian ethnic groups, like the Manchu for example (not to say that there's 0% Han Chinese genetic contribution, admittedly there has been gene flow, but you can't make a generalisation out of that) even then you can't say they're descended from one another cos they all still exist
Pretty interesting. I lived and worked with Japanese in Yokosuka,Japan for 4 years. My Japanese co-workers drank hot water as well after a meal. But during breaks,they drank tea.😎✌
@Jessica Novia I did for awhile. The two habits I couldn't break when returning to States was bowing and wanting to drive on other side of street. Driving for me got so bad,I stopped driving for a week. Didn't want to cause an accident.
@@Ken-iu2zp Well just like here in the west with modernization and the ease of refrigeration becoming available cold drinks become popular. We use to drink warmed drinks all the time here in the stats before the 1920's or so because 1) sanitation 2) Ice was only gathered once a year and was EXPENSIVE and a luxury! Now Japan has greatly grown and modernized MUCH faster and sooner than China but hit drinks are still quite common there and even have vending machines to heat the canned drinks.
Chinese are right: hot water quenches thirst. We in Argentina drink litres of hot water every day with Mate, our national beverage. We know it by experience.
I'm also not fond of drinking cold water. Especially when I observed that it solidifies oil. It will do the same inside the body after eating oily foods. When it solidified it will clogs the arteries that could lead to health problems. I also observed that when I drink cold water after a meal, it makes my mind cloudy.
My great grandma Anne would apparently come in from doing gardening in the summer when it was super hot. She would have room temp water because she said that ice cold water made her feel tired. I guess if you think about it I assume it's more energy intensive for the body to warm up a liquid then to cool it down.
I'm a singaporean indian, I've always drank hot water Drinking hot water is not just a chinese thing, it's also an AYURVEDIC practice for centuries. I always keep a thermos next to my bed. Now living in Ireland , I do the same. Hot water is great when you eat spicy food. You get immediate relief sipping hot water when your tongue is on fire. I drink hot water all year round and I'm reaping the benefits to a healthy, glowing life.🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
I am an Indian And in ayurveda it's written if you have allergy drinking hot water will save you Also some people have problem of getting fat doesn't matter if yoy eat less hot water prevents that as well
As a Chinese, I never understood the hot water craze. Hot water just makes me sweat and I've to sip it so slowly. My whole family drinks iced water and we chew on ice :)
I don’t drink hot water because I can’t take it, but I drink warm water around 40°c which is the best for me, it feels so good, like taking a hot bath. Also drinking water above 65 degrees highest the risk of cancer
If you drink a hot drink...or a cold drink...how long do you think it stays that way as it enters the stomach full of fluid at 37C? I'll give you a hint. Perhaps a few seconds.
@@jarls5890 the same logic could be applied to eating ice, there’s a reason of you wouldn’t eat snow to quench yourself, you could but your body would need much more energy to melt it than dinking hot water
@@xichen4926 The caloric value needed to heat up - or cool down - the fluid intake can be easily calculated. But you can eat snow to quench yourself (plenty snow here...I'm Norwegian). Not very pleasant as it would be similar to chewing ice cream. If you need to spend energy on the heating..or cooling of the intake would depend on the ambient temperature. If it is a hot day so that your body already is spending energy on cooling you down through sweating - drinking cold would save you energy. Conversely, on a cold day you could save some energy on drinking hot.
I live in China for 16 years now and it's all true. Drinking warm water feels much better, your stomach is not acid after meals or during meals or feel "heavy". Drinking warm water when eating makes the digestion process easier. I had tried in the past both ways and warm water always wins. Sure, I don't drink HOT boiling water directly! and I don't drink warm water 100% of time but it definitely is much better even during summer time. Drinking some warm green tea feels very good.
I started growing fond of drinking cold water when I moved to a place where the tap water was chlorinated and I had to boil it to remove the chlorine. I would simply start drinking it when it was just cold enough to not burn me.
OMG Cici (the lady with short stylish hair) was my Chinese Traditional Medicine doctor in Hong Kong! I am ethnic Chinese and I prefer warm everything, and my mom always said warm water was good for our health.
A certain tennis player drinks warm water during a match. Why? Blood distribution between stomach and peripheral muscles: Put cold water in the stomach - blood rushes from the muscles to the stomach to maintain internal body temperature. Put water at or above normal body temperature into the stomach, the oxygen rich blood is free to flow into the muscles engaged in the sport.
I had a Asian landlord he had a acupressure office downstairs from where we lived upstairs. He said that drinking as much you can handle drinking hot to warm water because the insides of our stomache is 70 degrees hot and it helps our system be calm and digestion too But if you DRINK COLD WATER it will SHOCK your system even the other organs If you notice when you swallow cold drink right away you will notice like you cringe from cold. Just like having a brain freeze because cold
Another reason for drinking hot water is that the stomach absorbs hot water more quickly, cold water actually has to be warmed by the stomach before it is metabolised.
When they were building the transcontinental railroad across America and we're using Chinese labor. The Chinese drank hot tea and did not get cholera (a disease from drinking or eatting contaminated stuff ) as other labors did.
You touched on it at point no.3 or no.4 about the balance of Yin and Yang. But the most important reason why hot water is preferred over cold water is that cold water, especially ice cold water, depletes the stores of qi energy in the body. Most Chinese medical sinsehs will advise against drinking ice cold water, and a lot of people who do Chinese kungfu, Chinese qigong meditation, all say the same thing. Your body needs to normalize the ice-cold water that you drink to become body temperature, and over the course of the years and years of drinking cold water, the body depletes qi topping up, eventually leading to diseases and all sorts of body conditions.
As an ethnic Chinese, I've seen this when I was studying in Korea, I only saw other ethnic Chinese students refill their thermos with hot water while everyone else drank cold water even in winter.
Hot water is not contaminated as cold water! When I visited China almost 30 years ago, I almost burnt my lips trying to drink water served in a plastic container (glass)? That’s was their way of eating and drinking clean! I congratulate them for this!!!
Lol... one of the most noticeable and unnoticeable customs that's been around my life finally has an answer. Never understood and paid much attention to it growing up until this video. Informative video!
@@luisemel9182 hey I chinese I love warm water so much I less drink cold water since the quarantine because my lil bro now a have one ill he can't drink cold water and that ill is start from cold water
Maybe it's an Asian thing. I'm in Nepal and everyone drinks it. Even in the restaurants, they automatically fill your glass with hot water in the wintertime. It's actually delicious.
When I used to work in a call center company I used to drink hot water. One of the reason is that I don’t want to share my water bottle/thermos with someone 😁
I was told by past korean friends parents and grandparents that drinking hot water promotes a healthy body. The grandmother told me low-key that it helps with constipation,during period especially. If I don't drink warm water during the cold season, I will not drink enough water and end up dehydrated. During warm season, I drink room temp water most of time. Cannot say whether the constipation thing is accurate because I haven't experienced it since starting drinking hot water. 🤷🏻♀️
i remember years ago working on a construction project and there was some Chinese fellas laying tile... most of them couldn't speak English, but one of the younger guys could and at lunch time some times I would talk to him, one day in the middle of the summer it was extremely hot close to 40c and I had just finished drinking an ice cold bottle of water and was complaining about how much I sweated out like a couple of minutes later, and the young fella told me to drink room temperature water and that wouldn't happen, I would retain the water if the water wasn't freezing cold shocking the body and causing me to sweat.... At first I thought he was crazy... but I figured what the hell Ill try it, so I went and got a bottle from the case sitting beside the cooler and low and behold no more heavy sweats..... Ill never drink an Ice cold water in the summer again, Ice cold beer well that's not up for discussion
I love my hot water too....but my 🍻 BETTER BE COLD. As a matter of fact, I'll even rinse out my clean beer glass, and put it in the freezer for 30 mintues before pouring 🤗
@@ambiava123 Budweiser, yes. However, the cold deadens the taste of beers meant to be consumed at room temperature [ cellar 50 - 60 degrees F] deadens the taste of the good English and German beers. As the beer warms up to room temperature, the taste opens up.
@@ambiava123 Experiment TIme: Get 2 ice cold beers - Budweiser and Bass Pale Ale. Pour into beer glasses and sample each one. Note the tastes. Resample at 10 or 15 minute intervals and continue noting the change in the beer's flavors.
Not Chinese, but we drink room temperature (unchilled) water in our house (Australia); natural therapies say the water is absorbed faster if it more closely matches body temperature. So I haven't drunk cold water in decades.
@@feedyjk7573 You should try it, it tastes really good and was said to aid digestion :D . You can find it served in a lot of Hong Kong restaurants in KL. ;)
It keeps the middle burner warm so you do not catch cold also, cover your chest while you sleep to not allow cold air in, nor do you go to bed with wet hair, gives headaches, bacteria grows
@@nictheartist not actually, vietnam weather is humid and hot, especially in the southern part, so they prefer cool drink made from herbs or local green grass. Traditionally, simple ice tea or hot tea is always the best option after meals. The young generations can go for milk tea. Warm water is good for health but not a normal option for Vietnamese habit to talk about. 🤔
Growing up Chinese in America, I always got annoyed when my mother would try to coax me into drinking hot water when I was particularly thirsty. I needed to drink water now!
I knew it warmed one's chi but this was interesting - lots of good history here. I typically drink tepid water and hot teas through out the day. Americans are obsessed with ice cold drinks - but quite frankly, I wouldn't advise anyone follow any part of an American diet as its proven the worst in the world.
@@orionishi6737 nope! As designed, it does not contain enough phytonutrients and has an excessive amount of animal products. It was written by large food manufacturers not by nutritionists.
@@namehere4954 you do know it's been updated right? That may have been true a while back but I def isn't anymore. Phytonutrients are from plants which are definitely included. If you follow dietary guidelines your plate should be like half or more full of veggies. Just because most Americans don't eat like that doesn't mean the dietary guidelines don't call for it.
@@namehere4954 literally just re-looked it up. Meat and protein is less than a quarter of the plate. 3/4s of the plate is veggies, fruits, and grains....so yeah, no. Sorry, I know it's fun to dunk on America but that's simply not true.
we don’t have any cold water at home, only room temperature and hot water. But believe me, a glass of warm water in the morning before breakfast can change your life. Try it and make it a habit
used to not liking to drink hot water and even my parents and grandparents asked me not to drink cold water too much. after watching this video, for some reason i crave for hot water
honey is better instead of sugar. honey has better healing properties than sugar. some people call it a hot toddy. you can also use ginger tea when making them also or add some cinnamon.
As a 11 yr old malaysian filipino mix, I dont really like how they serve tea/water in small ass tea cups, I mean. Cant you serve them in bigger cups? But at least they give ice along with the tea/water
...Indigenous cultures in the Americas know drinking hot water is an excellent way to digest food...hot water with lemon or infused with herbs will definitely help drive mucus/toxins out of the body. Yes, we do it too!;o) Cheers
I'm Indonesia born chinese. I like cold water because it's so hot here in Indonesia. It bothers my mother in law so much, she keeps nagging me to consume hot water instead of the cold one. The reason is as you can see it in this video. Hot water is good for your health. When I had the chance to visit China few years back, all the restaurants always give us hot water or tea instead the cold / room temperature one. Once we hit Hongkong Disneyland, I thought I'm gonna be able to drink Iced coke finally, the waiter give me a cup and pointing me on the drinking station. I was so excited, once I filled my cup at the drinking station only to find out that it's also pouring hot water 😭
I read somewhere it was due to the northern Chinese observation that hot-tea drinking southern Chinese had way less cholera outbreaks. The lack of outbreaks was due to the warmer climate and thus more openly ventilated buildings, but northern Chinese attributed it to the hot water because of other cultural factors mentioned in the video. And then it became a Beijing custom which became a nationalized custom when the CCP started standardizing everything.
A chinese friend recommended that i drink a hot water to remove my constant gas and it works! 😭 i never go back to drinking cold water again after that 🙏🏼
As a Puerto Rican my father always drank hot water after a meal, made ginseng tea pitcher and ate tons of garlic every day. Had it not been for his drinking and smoking he would have been one healthy horse. I did notice that when I drank hot water, I would be cleaned out by going to the bathroom and felt better. And it's true that cold water can damage organs and arteries. We are not cleaning anything out by consistently drinking cold water. I believe as a result our bodies become more sluggish, we accumulate too much sugar, fats, and other unhealthy bacteria. So very warm water is better, medically speaking, for our circulatory system, weight loss, to cleanse our organs, and to clear our central nervous system...it's great. Continue to encourage others to do the same.
My mum started drinking hot water a few years ago when she got more interested in Ayurveda At first I was like uh? But now guess who is drinking hot water everyday me
Just same easy question: why do your body keep their temperature about 36 C° in the body? What happens if the body can not keep this temperature? Do you think why patients dying in emergency room? Even though the operation was successful? Yes, they dying cause of running out of fire in their body. How warm/cold is in an emergency room? Why mostly younger people survive COVID-19? Just because they have enough muscle to support the body get warm. Older or weakened people can survive with external heat, hot tea or hot ginger tea to support the body to keep it warm.
I really like you, "Why do Chinese People...." videos! Please do more of these explanation videos with the heading, "Why do Chinese People...." Have you done one on, "Why do Chinese People spit?" If you research it, it's because the Chinese have been led to believe that there is bacteria in phlegm, and therefor to expel bacteria from the body, you spit it out. Unfortunately, Chinese has the largest population, it's densely populated, and tissue for those who are frugal can be considered as a valuable item (and possibly the attitude, why spit phlegm into a tissue when it's cheaper to spit it out - sometime being too frugal... has its draw back). 💡
Hot water (not boiling hot but cooled down to around 50 degrees C) with a slice of lemon and occasionally add a few drops of honey is really good for you!
There is this history in the old Dutch Indies of Batavia. During a cholera outbreak, the dutch realized that the chinese was not affected by it so they decide to investigate. They found that chinese only drink tea, and concluded that drinking tea was the key to avoid cholera. Then they started to put tea leaves into drinking water which is useless. Why? Because they did not boil the water first and only add tea leaves..
imma meme this real quick
Beer has the same effect. Frequenting taverns was a great way to avoid cholera
Lol
Alcohol like beer works the same
@@turningnull2538 Alcohol helps, but the more important thing is that beer needs to be boiled in the brewing process. Beer has a very low alcohol content, many microbes can still exist in beer if they are introduced after boiling.
As a chinese, this is my childhood:
When I drink hot water my parents be like: 🙂 good job you are gonna live to 100 years old.
When I drink cold water my parents be like: call 🚑, quick.
Why should we care tho?
@@stompernaut because we are all one in the end. No worries, you will learn, we will all help.
That's weird. It was my understanding COLD water is absorbed by the body better and promotes hydration. Isn't it possible the Chinese simply developed the custom of drinking hot water due to unsanitary conditions? They...were trying to prevent the spread of illnesses. It would explain the lemon also. In the West, people customarily drank alcohol to prevent that but they were able to develop water treatment procedures later.
@@ClaudeSac ooh hell no. you don't see us eating bats or rhino horns.
@@DEVINdevdev I understand your position. It is an easy one to take, a simple one even. There is no challenge in it, and therefore no opportunity for growth. It's OK man. We all have our own pace of growth.
I actually started drinking hot boiling water because of my coworkers (Chinese, Korean, Cantonese, etc.). They saw me get cold water and said "No, No, No, hot water good for you and your stomach."
From then on that is all I drink at work, home and restaurants (I ask for a tea).
I actually noticed I was able to drink 2 Liters of water a day (because ot was hot) and also helped me not like sweets as much (hence, help me lose weight).
How are Cantonese people not Chinese?
When you're thirsty drinking cold water does 2 things: the cold cools you off and the water hydrates you. Here's the catch; your body will immediately feel the effects of the cooling sensation _before_ the water is absorbed into the body. This chilling sensation will trick you into thinking you've drank enough water so you stop earlier than you probably should.
Warm water won't trick you to stop drinking too early and is absorbed into the body faster thus hydrating you sooner.
Canto are Chinese, lol
simon dubya nope. Cold water is just bad for the system period. That’s all there is to know.
@@barrymccaulkiner7092 but hot water causes constipation?? Then how can chinese people drink it everyday??
hot water mean the boiling water at 100 ℃ in English speaking nation.but in China the hot water mean warm water suitable for drinking about 45 ℃
lee Nyx : thank you. I was wondering about that my self....
actually hot water in China meaning water which has been boiled to 100 Celsius and then cooled down to drinking temperature
@@jiayicheng7782 yep
Ooh now it actually make sense.
Hot water means hot water, warm water means warm water, I prefer hot water personally, that said , I know it's not good when it's burning hot.
And there's a corallary question of why western people drink cold water. Is it because ice and refrigeration in the past was expensive and difficult to get, and therefore a luxury, a status symbol? I've heard that it 'has more oxygen', but that seems obviously wrong. I myself find cold water refreshing and delicious, but I wonder how it became so universally popular in the west.
for me, cold water is refreshing only in the summertime or whenever it gets sweltering hot, in the winter, or whenever I get sick or have a sore throat I drink hot water and hot tea.
Evaporation produces cooling. Don't drink cold water but then sweat a bit!
Not really possible in a cold climate. 🙂
I also thought of the luxurious status of cold drinks in the west. Sure that's one of the reasons. The main one.
I blame coca cola.
Actually, there might be some truth to the "more oxygen" idea, as gases are more soluble in cold liquids (hence carbonated drinks going flat sooner in hotter temperatures), but I don't know if that would be a significant enough difference to cause any true physical effect. It does seem to have a sort of placebo effect though, which could contribute to this.
Personally, I don't drink much water myself (tea is my beverage of choice), but I prefer my water carbonated, hence I tend to have it cold. With virtually any other drink I go for hot, because they're just so much more pleasant that way.
chinese person here, and to be honest, i don’t really know!
my mom gives me hot water since i was a child and i just grew with it, hot water just give me a relaxed feeling most of the time
It's just a beverage. We all drink water after all but we're adding some extra taste like coffee or tea. In summer everyone looks for cold water but I personally find environmental temperature water to be the best for me.
@@perseusarkouda Yes, room temperature water is the best for me too. Give fresh feeling without make my stomach upset.
Hot water makes me anxious because I associate it with coffee. Cold water calms me because I associate it with fun
@@kevinclass2010 hhh I am typing this while drink hot water. It does give me a relaxed feeling. I used to like cold water when I was younger, but now... meh. I guess hot water just kinda grew in me.
The reason why my fam stick to warm water is because of the TCM, the Yellow emperor sutra explained it well. Plus we’ve experienced the effects of cold and warm water ourselves
My Irish Grandmother would have hot boiling water and sip it. She loved tea but she swore by hot water. Her brother did too.
They both lived to their 90s and both would happen to ask for this beverage if not having tea, at any time. Day or night.
She was very wise.
This is not just a Chinese thing. I'm Indian and trust me Indians are very fond of hot water as well.
I’ve heard that drinking it in hot weather is more cooling. Still, as an American I admit that I love my ice. I will give it a try. My girlfriend is Chinese. When she visits the first thing she does her is fire up my kettle and fill her thermos.
I heard Arabs are also
True. I work with guy from India and he drinks hot water. Weird to me, but totally normal for him.
@@adeenaamatullah9909 not sure about that but us Middle Easterners drink coffee and tea obsessively so I guess it hot water lol
you indian fond of milk - just milk and sugar
I'm Chinese,I don't drink hot water but warm water. Even if the weather is very hot I don't drink cold water. There aren't any cold beverages in my fridge. Even if I'm eating outside I never order cold drinks. Drinking warm water cures my cold hand and feet, no more menstrual cramp and stomachache.
wow that's a hard one.. I understand, I agree it all makes sense... but OH MY COLD DRINKS... i'm from S.America, even our winter is hot!
You get the point, it's not simply which one is better, it depends on the climate and the diet. I live in North part of China, my high school teacher used to pay an academic visiting to USA for several months, when he came back he told us he kept drinking warm/hot water in the first weeks and soon he got aphthous ulcer, from then on he realized why the hotel was offering ice. He started drinking ice water and the ulcer all gone. He guess it's because the diet and climate were different from we had in China. Me myself I drink both, either is fine, depends on which one makes me feel better. If cold drinks make you feel comfortable then why not?
You can boil water and leave it until it's cool. In Chinese it's called "liang kai shui"
@@lemons2300 Isn't that called boiled water? If it's just boiled and still hot then it's called hot water?
@@eleongo I think in Chinese you can just refer to hot water as "kai shui" (which technically means boiled water) because hot water is the Chinese standard, as the video may have also implied.
So by saying "liang kai shui" (which translates to boiled water that's been cooled down) it specifies that the water is at least no longer hot.
@@贺如歌 haven't we had enough comfort? Doing the right thing isn't always comfortable. Telling people to operate in comfort on something so easy causes laziness and weakness and some can never lift themselves to handle the business they need to. You're basically saying they don't need to be the best version of themselves just because it feels good. Might feel good for a minute but over time there will be some undesired consequences
I like how one of the search choices is “Why Chinese why Chinese?”
As a family member of multiple TCM doctors, they’ve brought out many cases as examples related to drinking hot/warm water vs cold water.
Drinking cold water none-stop (like mainstream western culture) can cause to long term health issues that are hard to diagnose in the western medicine field. Just like everything else, it’s good in moderation, but once you abuse it that’s a problem.
Also right after working out it’s best not to chug cold/freezing water. It’s the equivalent of dumping cold water on a hot stone, the stone cracks
It's more it causes excess stress on the system and slows down the absorption of water as it has to be warmed up to close to body temperature. SO in effect you actually are burning more calories just to absorb that ice cold water.
My family is Guyanese, and I grew up drinking warm to hot water with dinner and before bedtime. They said its to clean up your digestive system. Which, hey it works!
Here in Malaysia, we too love drinking hot or at the very least lukewarm water. I grew up in a Malay family, who strictly bans storing water in the fridge for consumption. Maybe we are influenced by the Chinese culture and thoughts in regards to health and body temperature.
mama sya urang dusun pun sama, tidak kasi minum air sejuk.
You are indeed influenced by Chinese culture, as also the entire East Asia.
There are also the belief of cold water make you fat, for whatever reason.
Sama jg dek
@@gorilladisco9108 just chinese , Japanese korean Vietnamese don’t drink hot water
I'm gonna start doing this. I've been drinking room temperature water for decades after being exposed to the idea that it is better for the body. This is a very interesting concept.
Drinking hot/lukewarm water is recommended in Ayurveda as well!
I'm American but I grew up in Malaysia and now all my Asian friends here in the states say I am a true Asian because I prefer my water at least room temperature, if not a little warm.
I haaaate ice and my American friend always fusses that I don't have an ice maker lol.
I'm from Florida and drank ice cold drinks my whole life. I moved to western Washington almost 10 yrs ago. I didn't even notice until my best friend came to visit for my wedding that I didn't use ice anymore.
She's like "you're gonna just drink room temp like that???" She was hilariously appalled Lmao I figured maybe climate has something to do with it? 🤷🏻♀️
I'm of chinese descent, unlike my parents I always prefer to drink cold or iced water. guess I'm no longer qualified as chinese lol.
You better drop your hot water drinking communist practices, patriot.
As a Westerns, once you start drinking warm water you'll find it that it becomes really hard to drink cold water, especially in the morning. I thought it was strange at first but 10 years later I'm still doing it.
So true. I only drink cold water if it's the only thing available. Room temperature or hot is my preference. I feel better. My body feels so relaxed and balanced.
I've tried all temps, and I just tend to drink more water if it's cold, even in winter. Hot or warm water fills me up faster and I don't drink as much. Kind of a problem when you're prone to kidney stones...
In organic chemistry heat helps with chemical reactions, aka warm/hot water helps breakdown food and is good for digestion.
And it works that way in the human body too, cold and cool liquids have to be heated up to close to body temperature before active digestion can begin.
If you drink a hot drink...or a cold drink...how long do you think it stays that way as it enters the stomach full of fluid at 37C?
I'll give you a hint. Perhaps a few seconds.
@@SilvaDreams If you take a sip of ice cold water. It will reach 37C in seconds as it enters the stomach full of liquid at 37C.
Makes sense to drink warm/hot water to balance the body's ying and yang, since your body isn't ice cold. But I just hate drinking hot water, I find the more hot water I drink the thirstier I get. Nothing like a glass of ice cold water to quench thirst even in winter.
Room temp is fine. Doesn't always have to be hot, just as long as it's not ice cold. Take too long for the body to warm it up and if you have food in your stomach, forget it!
Cold water makes me thirstier tho, warm water feels like your throat is like soothed
@@greenhat7618 you’re cooking your throat
You don't drink hot water when the room temperature is warm enough, people in asia mostly live in cold place and hot water is better.
@@HyTeddyBear asia is huge though a large chunk of asia lies closer to the equator than US or europe
I’m not chinese but me and my family always thought, that was the reason alot of chinese people were skinny/slim, because they drank warm/hot water 😂
Drinking hot water helped trick my mind thinking it was drinking hot tea so I could give up tea, and coffee caffeine addiction. It works so well I got my Uncle off his caffeine addiction and my cousin too. I still drink hot water as my body craves it.
When I visited some people’s house they ask if I wanted tea or coffee ? I said no thank you just boiled water with a little cool water from tap. They thought I was a nut. So I explained they still thought I was nuts ..... a year on I found out ....now they drink hot water too.
Many Koreans drink warm water too. There is a lot of Chinese medicine in the Korean culture.
Of course. Koreans are chinese descendants
My Vietnamese roommate too.
@@ronaldoggha1801 bruh what
@@haharmageddontv6581 what do you mean what. Don’t you know?
@@ronaldoggha1801 that's so ignorant
influence=/=descent
might as well drag the rest of the sinosphere in
are the Japanese 'chinese'?
are the Vietnamese 'chinese'?
genetically speaking Koreans are on average closer to some Siberian ethnic groups, like the Manchu for example (not to say that there's 0% Han Chinese genetic contribution, admittedly there has been gene flow, but you can't make a generalisation out of that)
even then you can't say they're descended from one another cos they all still exist
Pretty interesting. I lived and worked with Japanese in Yokosuka,Japan for 4 years. My Japanese co-workers drank hot water as well after a meal. But during breaks,they drank tea.😎✌
@Jessica Novia I did for awhile. The two habits I couldn't break when returning to States was bowing and wanting to drive on other side of street. Driving for me got so bad,I stopped driving for a week. Didn't want to cause an accident.
Really? I heard Japanese people don't drink too much hot water. I heard it was the Chinese. What part of Japan were you in?
And guess what is the main ingredient of making tea - 95% hot water!
@@Ken-iu2zp Well just like here in the west with modernization and the ease of refrigeration becoming available cold drinks become popular. We use to drink warmed drinks all the time here in the stats before the 1920's or so because 1) sanitation 2) Ice was only gathered once a year and was EXPENSIVE and a luxury!
Now Japan has greatly grown and modernized MUCH faster and sooner than China but hit drinks are still quite common there and even have vending machines to heat the canned drinks.
Chinese are right: hot water quenches thirst. We in Argentina drink litres of hot water every day with Mate, our national beverage. We know it by experience.
I'm hispanic,but I have an aunt that always drinks hot water. I started doing this about a month ago I hope to make it a lifestyle change.
Can we get an update ? Did it change your life ?
I'm also not fond of drinking cold water. Especially when I observed that it solidifies oil. It will do the same inside the body after eating oily foods. When it solidified it will clogs the arteries that could lead to health problems. I also observed that when I drink cold water after a meal, it makes my mind cloudy.
My great grandma Anne would apparently come in from doing gardening in the summer when it was super hot. She would have room temp water because she said that ice cold water made her feel tired.
I guess if you think about it I assume it's more energy intensive for the body to warm up a liquid then to cool it down.
I'm a singaporean indian, I've always drank hot water
Drinking hot water is not just a chinese thing, it's also an AYURVEDIC practice for centuries.
I always keep a thermos next to my bed.
Now living in Ireland , I do the same.
Hot water is great when you eat spicy food.
You get immediate relief sipping hot water when your tongue is on fire.
I drink hot water all year round and I'm reaping the benefits to a healthy, glowing life.🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
whenever i have stomach upset indigestion a glass of hot water is so soothing. also when the time of month comes drinking hot water feels much better
I am an Indian
And in ayurveda it's written if you have allergy drinking hot water will save you
Also some people have problem of getting fat doesn't matter if yoy eat less hot water prevents that as well
im chinese and me telling the boba cashier in china to give me extra ice:
her: hah?
XD
Cuz you ain't Chinese enough. Cuz a real Chinese person would ask for no ice and a cup of ice on the side. LOL
@@shad0wCh8ser The cup sealed why wound I-
Most people ask for less ice because Ice waters down your drink. Nobody wants a watery drink.
@@mars9399 I’m Chinese and I never get ice causes often the ice would take up more space instead of the drink so you would get more of the drink
As a Chinese, I never understood the hot water craze. Hot water just makes me sweat and I've to sip it so slowly. My whole family drinks iced water and we chew on ice :)
must be nice. My mother scolds me for drinking iced water... even in the summer!
Dont chew on ice , bad for teeth
My uncle fractured a tooth by chewing on ice. Take that as you will.
My parents never let me drink ice water 🥲
I don’t drink hot water because I can’t take it, but I drink warm water around 40°c which is the best for me, it feels so good, like taking a hot bath. Also drinking water above 65 degrees highest the risk of cancer
5:11, They advertised the drinking of boiled water to avoid pest and transmission of diseases. They didn't ask people to drink hot water specifically.
Legit watching this because a Chinese company bought the factory I work at in Ohio. If I can adapt to their customs maybe they'll keep me around
As a Mexican born even my parents and grandparents would tell me to drink hot drinks after a meal for good digestion
If you drink a hot drink...or a cold drink...how long do you think it stays that way as it enters the stomach full of fluid at 37C?
I'll give you a hint. Perhaps a few seconds.
@@jarls5890 the same logic could be applied to eating ice, there’s a reason of you wouldn’t eat snow to quench yourself, you could but your body would need much more energy to melt it than dinking hot water
@@xichen4926 The caloric value needed to heat up - or cool down - the fluid intake can be easily calculated. But you can eat snow to quench yourself (plenty snow here...I'm Norwegian). Not very pleasant as it would be similar to chewing ice cream.
If you need to spend energy on the heating..or cooling of the intake would depend on the ambient temperature. If it is a hot day so that your body already is spending energy on cooling you down through sweating - drinking cold would save you energy. Conversely, on a cold day you could save some energy on drinking hot.
I live in China for 16 years now and it's all true. Drinking warm water feels much better, your stomach is not acid after meals or during meals or feel "heavy". Drinking warm water when eating makes the digestion process easier. I had tried in the past both ways and warm water always wins. Sure, I don't drink HOT boiling water directly! and I don't drink warm water 100% of time but it definitely is much better even during summer time. Drinking some warm green tea feels very good.
I started growing fond of drinking cold water when I moved to a place where the tap water was chlorinated and I had to boil it to remove the chlorine. I would simply start drinking it when it was just cold enough to not burn me.
OMG Cici (the lady with short stylish hair) was my Chinese Traditional Medicine doctor in Hong Kong!
I am ethnic Chinese and I prefer warm everything, and my mom always said warm water was good for our health.
Wow, another educational video with information I didn't know. A store that sold hot water, that's amazing!
A certain tennis player drinks warm water during a match. Why? Blood distribution between stomach and peripheral muscles: Put cold water in the stomach - blood rushes from the muscles to the stomach to maintain internal body temperature. Put water at or above normal body temperature into the stomach, the oxygen rich blood is free to flow into the muscles engaged in the sport.
In ayurveda, we also have the same concept of drinking lukewarm water after eating oily things.
03:15 They do this in Italy as well. It's called "canarino" (lit. "canary") and people order it in bars and restaurant to help digestion.
When I drink warm or hot water, I feel it slightly dries my throat and not quenching my thirst.
Same!!
that is the way.
That means it is too hot, drinking too much hot water is bad. Just as long as it is not cold. Lukewarm maybe is a nice temp
@@ss-cat7 Drinking slightly warm water makes me thirsty.
I had a Asian landlord he had a acupressure office downstairs from where we lived upstairs.
He said that drinking as much you can handle drinking hot to warm water because the insides of our stomache is 70 degrees hot and it helps our system be calm and digestion too
But if you DRINK COLD WATER it will SHOCK your system even the other organs
If you notice when you swallow cold drink right away you will notice like you cringe from cold. Just like having a brain freeze because cold
Better for digestion.
prove it...I don't drink hot water and have no problem with digestion
@@Day12My as commented under Benni Nasc comment: it deppends on the climate and your diet :)
@@Day12My it help your digestion
@@Kevin-ci4ky nah, it's a myth. no actual proof
@@Day12My Acids work better at higher temperatures
Another reason for drinking hot water is that the stomach absorbs hot water more quickly, cold water actually has to be warmed by the stomach before it is metabolised.
I am not Chinese. I am from Arunachal Pradesh India but this habit of having hot water can be seen here. 😀😀 For us it's just for health reason...
When they were building the transcontinental railroad across America and we're using Chinese labor. The Chinese drank hot tea and did not get cholera (a disease from drinking or eatting contaminated stuff ) as other labors did.
Daily routine: wake up, brush teeth and have a cup of warm water.
You touched on it at point no.3 or no.4 about the balance of Yin and Yang. But the most important reason why hot water is preferred over cold water is that cold water, especially ice cold water, depletes the stores of qi energy in the body. Most Chinese medical sinsehs will advise against drinking ice cold water, and a lot of people who do Chinese kungfu, Chinese qigong meditation, all say the same thing. Your body needs to normalize the ice-cold water that you drink to become body temperature, and over the course of the years and years of drinking cold water, the body depletes qi topping up, eventually leading to diseases and all sorts of body conditions.
As an ethnic Chinese, I've seen this when I was studying in Korea, I only saw other ethnic Chinese students refill their thermos with hot water while everyone else drank cold water even in winter.
Hot water is not contaminated as cold water! When I visited China almost 30 years ago, I almost burnt my lips trying to drink water served in a plastic container (glass)? That’s was their way of eating and drinking clean! I congratulate them for this!!!
i once drank cold water from the fridge for two whole days and my entire body was aching 😭 i felt like a grandma. never went back to doing that
Lol... one of the most noticeable and unnoticeable customs that's been around my life finally has an answer. Never understood and paid much attention to it growing up until this video. Informative video!
I'm a Chinese but I still love my cold drinks better than hot ones because here in Malaysia it's always hot. Plus hot drinks always burn my mouth😅
老了就开始养生喝热水了，你还年轻，继续浪
It's amazing for clearing your throat.. Swear it's better than tea made for a sore throat
"why chinese plp like warm water"
My mom : DAUGHTER, DID U DRINK COLD WATER AGAIN!!!!!
What wrong with your mom.
@@kellyteng4647 oh wait, I type something wrong
@@luisemel9182 oh ok
@@luisemel9182 hey I chinese I love warm water so much I less drink cold water since the quarantine because my lil bro now a have one ill
he can't drink cold water and that ill is start from cold water
For me, it helps curve coffee/tea cravings. I didn’t know this was actually being done with so many other purposes.💁🏽♀️
I loved travelling in China, hot water in stations, on trains, great for noodles and coffee. Ki shay.
Maybe it's an Asian thing. I'm in Nepal and everyone drinks it. Even in the restaurants, they automatically fill your glass with hot water in the wintertime. It's actually delicious.
I still get scolded whenever I am with my parents for drinking cold water. 😂
I do that to my son 🤣
Not scold but just discourage him from drinking ice cold beverages simply because there are lots of bacteria in ice cubes.
😃😃😃. Thank you for this video!! I consume a lot of c-dramas and I always wanted to know why they always drink plain hot water. Thanks!!
When I used to work in a call center company I used to drink hot water. One of the reason is that I don’t want to share my water bottle/thermos with someone 😁
I was told by past korean friends parents and grandparents that drinking hot water promotes a healthy body.
The grandmother told me low-key that it helps with constipation,during period especially.
If I don't drink warm water during the cold season, I will not drink enough water and end up dehydrated.
During warm season, I drink room temp water most of time.
Cannot say whether the constipation thing is accurate because I haven't experienced it since starting drinking hot water. 🤷🏻♀️
It's true, I was constipated today and gave it a try. It works like a charm 😊
Interesting 😊
i remember years ago working on a construction project and there was some Chinese fellas laying tile... most of them couldn't speak English, but one of the younger guys could and at lunch time some times I would talk to him, one day in the middle of the summer it was extremely hot close to 40c and I had just finished drinking an ice cold bottle of water and was complaining about how much I sweated out like a couple of minutes later, and the young fella told me to drink room temperature water and that wouldn't happen, I would retain the water if the water wasn't freezing cold shocking the body and causing me to sweat.... At first I thought he was crazy... but I figured what the hell Ill try it, so I went and got a bottle from the case sitting beside the cooler and low and behold no more heavy sweats..... Ill never drink an Ice cold water in the summer again, Ice cold beer well that's not up for discussion
I love my hot water too....but my 🍻 BETTER BE COLD. As a matter of fact, I'll even rinse out my clean beer glass, and put it in the freezer for 30 mintues before pouring 🤗
@@ambiava123 Budweiser, yes. However, the cold deadens the taste of beers meant to be consumed at room temperature [ cellar 50 - 60 degrees F] deadens the taste of the good English and German beers. As the beer warms up to room temperature, the taste opens up.
@@westernrider100 🤔..... didn't know that. Thanks for the tip👍
@@ambiava123 Experiment TIme: Get 2 ice cold beers - Budweiser and Bass Pale Ale. Pour into beer glasses and sample each one. Note the tastes. Resample at 10 or 15 minute intervals and continue noting the change in the beer's flavors.
@@westernrider100 Thanks for the tip🤗
Not Chinese, but we drink room temperature (unchilled) water in our house (Australia); natural therapies say the water is absorbed faster if it more closely matches body temperature. So I haven't drunk cold water in decades.
Me a madlad: one cup of boiled coke pls
u spelled intellectual wrong 👀
We actually have boiled coke with ginger and it's really tasty, I'm a malaysian chinese.
@@xuan4938 im malaysian too but never ginger in coke
@@feedyjk7573 You should try it, it tastes really good and was said to aid digestion :D . You can find it served in a lot of Hong Kong restaurants in KL. ;)
@@feedyjk7573 I’ve tasted it before. It’s really good. The hot cola and the ginger combine really well.
It keeps the middle burner warm so you do not catch cold also, cover your chest while you sleep to not allow cold air in, nor do you go to bed with wet hair, gives headaches, bacteria grows
When I came to USA, I wondered why Americans rely on soft drink and coffee. Soft drink is not good for kidney.
Do people in Vietnam also drink hot or warm water?
@@nictheartist not actually, vietnam weather is humid and hot, especially in the southern part, so they prefer cool drink made from herbs or local green grass. Traditionally, simple ice tea or hot tea is always the best option after meals. The young generations can go for milk tea. Warm water is good for health but not a normal option for Vietnamese habit to talk about. 🤔
Growing up Chinese in America, I always got annoyed when my mother would try to coax me into drinking hot water when I was particularly thirsty. I needed to drink water now!
I knew it warmed one's chi but this was interesting - lots of good history here. I typically drink tepid water and hot teas through out the day. Americans are obsessed with ice cold drinks - but quite frankly, I wouldn't advise anyone follow any part of an American diet as its proven the worst in the world.
I think you mean the average americans diet. If people followed the actual dietary guidelines they would be perfectly healthy.
@@orionishi6737 nope! As designed, it does not contain enough phytonutrients and has an excessive amount of animal products. It was written by large food manufacturers not by nutritionists.
@@namehere4954 you do know it's been updated right? That may have been true a while back but I def isn't anymore.
Phytonutrients are from plants which are definitely included. If you follow dietary guidelines your plate should be like half or more full of veggies. Just because most Americans don't eat like that doesn't mean the dietary guidelines don't call for it.
@@namehere4954 literally just re-looked it up. Meat and protein is less than a quarter of the plate. 3/4s of the plate is veggies, fruits, and grains....so yeah, no. Sorry, I know it's fun to dunk on America but that's simply not true.
we don’t have any cold water at home, only room temperature and hot water. But believe me, a glass of warm water in the morning before breakfast can change your life. Try it and make it a habit
I actually noticed a huge improvement in my health since starting to drink hot water regularly
Don’t eat too much sugar
American food tooooo sweet
used to not liking to drink hot water and even my parents and grandparents asked me not to drink cold water too much. after watching this video, for some reason i crave for hot water
When sick, I drink my boiling water with a shot of bourbon, a spoonful of sugar, and the juice of a quarter lemon. Now that’s some yang.
honey is better instead of sugar. honey has better healing properties than sugar. some people call it a hot toddy. you can also use ginger tea when making them also or add some cinnamon.
Better use honey instead of sugar. The concoction will clear any persistent coughing in no time. Also, I use rum instead of bourbon.
As a 11 yr old malaysian filipino mix, I dont really like how they serve tea/water in small ass tea cups, I mean. Cant you serve them in bigger cups?
But at least they give ice along with the tea/water
During high-school, while I had a cold I asked the lady in my cafeteria for hot water. People looked at me weird for no reason.
At one time, at Manila (Philippines) restaurants eating utensils are given to diners in a glass of hot water for hygiene purposes.
...Indigenous cultures in the Americas know drinking hot water is an excellent way to digest food...hot water with lemon or infused with herbs will definitely help drive mucus/toxins out of the body. Yes, we do it too!;o) Cheers
Add-on: It depends on the weather and humidity as well
Also something done in Russia, especially in the summer actually :p
Another thing is refrigerator was not a standard item in China till 20 years ago.
drinking hot water on a hot day makes me sweat and cools me down faster lol
This only works if the humidity is low, in moist environment the sweat can not evaporate that well.
True
@Hoang Minh here an easy to understand video about humidity and sweating
ruclips.net/video/SGHRz8wpj3E/видео.html
That is it.
It's an asian thing rather than chinese. Yes we believed that hot/warm water is safe to drink because no bacteria lives in it . I'm Malaysian btw
Love drinking a lot of hot tea and everyday probably just have more hot water
I'm Indonesia born chinese. I like cold water because it's so hot here in Indonesia. It bothers my mother in law so much, she keeps nagging me to consume hot water instead of the cold one. The reason is as you can see it in this video. Hot water is good for your health.
When I had the chance to visit China few years back, all the restaurants always give us hot water or tea instead the cold / room temperature one. Once we hit Hongkong Disneyland, I thought I'm gonna be able to drink Iced coke finally, the waiter give me a cup and pointing me on the drinking station. I was so excited, once I filled my cup at the drinking station only to find out that it's also pouring hot water 😭
it triggers me when i get forced to drink hot water in summer
Drinking cold water is not very good for health. Room temperature is best. Warm water too, but too much is again bad for health.
I read somewhere it was due to the northern Chinese observation that hot-tea drinking southern Chinese had way less cholera outbreaks. The lack of outbreaks was due to the warmer climate and thus more openly ventilated buildings, but northern Chinese attributed it to the hot water because of other cultural factors mentioned in the video. And then it became a Beijing custom which became a nationalized custom when the CCP started standardizing everything.
A chinese friend recommended that i drink a hot water to remove my constant gas and it works! 😭 i never go back to drinking cold water again after that 🙏🏼
As a Puerto Rican my father always drank hot water after a meal, made ginseng tea pitcher and ate tons of garlic every day. Had it not been for his drinking and smoking he would have been one healthy horse. I did notice that when I drank hot water, I would be cleaned out by going to the bathroom and felt better. And it's true that cold water can damage organs and arteries. We are not cleaning anything out by consistently drinking cold water. I believe as a result our bodies become more sluggish, we accumulate too much sugar, fats, and other unhealthy bacteria. So very warm water is better, medically speaking, for our circulatory system, weight loss, to cleanse our organs, and to clear our central nervous system...it's great. Continue to encourage others to do the same.
My mum started drinking hot water a few years ago when she got more interested in Ayurveda
At first I was like uh?
But now guess who is drinking hot water everyday me
Just same easy question:
why do your body keep their temperature about 36 C° in the body?
What happens if the body can not keep this temperature?
Do you think why patients dying in emergency room? Even though the operation was successful? Yes, they dying cause of running out of fire in their body. How warm/cold is in an emergency room?
Why mostly younger people survive COVID-19? Just because they have enough muscle to support the body get warm.
Older or weakened people can survive with external heat, hot tea or hot ginger tea to support the body to keep it warm.
It's more like an east Asian thing, my Mom is Korean and she does the same thing.
Almost Asians are doing it! Same here in the Philippines!
I really like you, "Why do Chinese People...." videos! Please do more of these explanation videos with the heading, "Why do Chinese People...."
Have you done one on, "Why do Chinese People spit?" If you research it, it's because the Chinese have been led to believe that there is bacteria in phlegm, and therefor to expel bacteria from the body, you spit it out. Unfortunately, Chinese has the largest population, it's densely populated, and tissue for those who are frugal can be considered as a valuable item (and possibly the attitude, why spit phlegm into a tissue when it's cheaper to spit it out - sometime being too frugal... has its draw back). 💡
Asian American watching this saying "That's not me"
I have a Yin deficiency so I was told to eat cooling foods like cucumber and cold water.
African American here. Ironically this showed up in my feed as I was warming my first cup of water for the day.lol
Hot water (not boiling hot but cooled down to around 50 degrees C) with a slice of lemon and occasionally add a few drops of honey is really good for you!