thumb|A chaiwala prepares masala chai on a coal fire in a street of [[Kolkata.]] A chaiwala (also transliterated as chaiwalah or chaiwallah; , ) is a tea-seller in the Indian subcontinent. They are an integral part of subcontinent culture. Chai is the Hindi and Urdu word for "tea", as in masala chai, and wala indicates the person performing the task, so chaiwala is a street vendor of tea.
thumb|A chaiwala prepares masala chai on a coal fire in a street of [[Kolkata.]] A chaiwala (also transliterated as chaiwalah or chaiwallah; , ) is a tea-seller in the Indian subcontinent. They are an integral part of subcontinent culture. Chai is the Hindi and Urdu word for "tea", as in masala chai, and wala indicates the person performing the task, so chaiwala is a street vendor of tea.
Chaiwalas, as an entrepreneurial group, tend to move from different regions of India to run their small business in major cities. They typically prepare the tea by boiling a mixture of water and milk, often with a spice mixture called chai masala, and then add tea leaves and sugar, and then strain the drink into containers or a tea kettle. They usually serve tea in a small glasses or unglazed clay teacups (kulhar) but have started to use plastic cups. Traditionally, tea was made in brass vessels.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).