The tea was traditionally drunk from a gourd, sipped through a straw known as a bombilla. |
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The mate is portioned ontop of the Chimarrao, hot water is poured over and a bombilla is inserted to sip through. |
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Mat tea is a communal practice where tea is sipped through a bombilla tea straw, which strains the leaves and draws the tea to the lips. |
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The drink is sucked from the gourd with a metal straw, known as a bombilla or bomba in Spanish, that is fitted with a strainer at one end to keep leaf particles from the mouth. |
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It is not uncommon, for example, to see people walking down the street of Buenos Aires sipping maté tea out of a calabash gourd with a special metal straw called bombilla. |
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The perspex Bombilla table lamp, pounds 18, comes in a range of colours. |
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