The word "chai" is a correct and usable word in written English.
"Chai" can be used to refer to either the popular Indian tea blend that typically includes black tea, spices, and milk, or the spiced drink itself. For example: "I'd love to have a warm cup of chai to start my day."
Patnem's beachside cafes all serve a similar mix of east and supposedly west: chai and something resembling cappuccino; curry and something similar to pizza.
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The star-and-crescent markings on our armoured vehicle do little to reassure the casually-dressed Somali guard; he trusts us as much as we trust him.Safely inside the compound, Turkish special forces gently sip chai while stroking high-powered rifles.
Pakistanis drink a great deal of hot tea (chai), and lassi (a type of yogurt drink), sherbet, and lemonade are popular.
Awarded "best new hangout" in the What's On magazine awards, this bright, urbane café attracts expatriates and has a tempting menu of fresh bagels, old-fashioned milkshakes and chai lattes (8am to 4pm Sunday to Thursday, and 8am to 6pm Friday to Saturday).
You delve into a claustrophobic lamp-lit maze of shops, rich with incense burnt to placate the gods, while ladies gather sipping chai and traders pompously unfurl one startling cloth after another: scarlet, fuchsia or royal blue.
The chatterers at the bar were all going to vote AAP; so were their drivers in the car park; so were the rickshaw-drivers and chai-wallahs outside on the street.
The son of a low-caste chai-wallah who became a lowly member of the Hindu nationalist movement, has in the past few weeks at last emerged as the dominant figure of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP .Re-elected in Gujarat in DecemBJP .Re-electedars in power, his ambitions are now national.
In her first years there she adored it all, from the colours of spices to the cries of chai-sellers, from the smell of jasmine to the fat, oily priests, from the electric blue sky to the smell of rotting garlands.
One stallholder, Yu-chai, tells how his parents, who were farmers, fled Guangdong province at the time of Japan's invasion of China.
And, despite strained ties, the top brass would surely first turn to China for reassurance, says Hahm Chai-bong of the Asan Institute, a South Korean think-tank.
