I give a brief insight into how Eastern culture has become part of our everyday life in our country. After presenting the origin story of tea, we will get acquainted with the tea plant and its processing. We will get to know the different types of tea through their processing stages. I will show how tea started its journey around the world and arrived in our country via several routes. The tea drinking habits of countries depend to a large extent on the route and time of the departure from China. I will outline the different tea drinking habits of several major tea-consuming countries. I will survey the tea drinking habits in Hungary today and the social composition of tea drinkers by means of a questionnaire filled out in a tea shop. Finally, I will briefly demonstrate how my thesis relates to my master thesis.