Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia.

Although discovered in China 500 years ago, tea is now the most widely consumed hot drink in the world. There is no country in the world where people do not drink tea.

Tea has different tastes and aromas in different countries. With the discovery of Chinese tea, the traditions of different countries and the preferences of the people have been mixed and tea has become popular in different countries.

Among the South Asian countries, India and Bangladesh, a large number of people drink tea. Here, people usually spend a long time drinking tea to tell happy stories in roadside shops.

Among the street food we have found in different parts of Bangladesh, the tea of ​​this famous woman called 'Kakir Tea' is especially noteworthy. Even a few years ago she was an ordinary tea-seller. Usually, students from school, college, and the university would come to her shop and drink tea.

Being a woman, everyone used to call her 'Kaki (aunty)'. At one point this term became the name of her tea. Gradually she became a seller of ‘Kakir Cha’.

Now people all over Bangladesh including Jessore know her in one sentence called 'Kakir Cha'.

She prepares ordinary milk tea especially for a long time and uses a large amount of milk cream. Besides, her unique tea-making skills have made her particularly attractive.

She became known worldwide when a documentary about her was aired on the famous street food documentary-based YouTube channel Food BD. In the Indian subcontinent, a special milk tea known as ‘Malai tea’ become a unique taste in the hands of Kaki, which is locally admired as Creamy Malay tea, Special Malay tea, Kakir tea, Special tea, etc.

In our eyes, this woman tea seller from Jashore, a city in the southern region of Bangladesh, is the best tea maker in Asia! Surely she is a MasterChef of making tea.

Our today's documentary is about the famous Kakir tea and its MasterChef Kaki in Jashore, a district town in the south-western region of Bangladesh.

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