In Kenya, any time is pretty much chai time. You offer chai to guests, sip them with your family after a meal, and chat with your friends over steaming cups of chai.
Sometimes the chai is premade for you by your hosts (fresh--literally--milk boiled with tea leaves and sugar, strained, and served). I like it best when you get to mix your own chai, because I like my chai darker/stronger. Enjoy with some mandazi (Kenyan donut).
Let me tell you, there's nothin like a boiling hot cuppa chai when you're out on assignment and you've just hiked up half a mile to get to some pastor's house and you've sweated through your sunscreen and bug spray. Anyway, here is some proper chai-making, as demonstrated by my lovely friend Sarah Stickney.
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