The basic principle of the tea meal is to match types of tea to types of food, depending on their characteristics. In general, meat goes with mature tea, because it dissolves fat; seafoods and are relatively tangy, so these are best offset by green tea, to take away that seafood aftertaste.
茶餐的基本原則在於視食物的屬性來採用茶菁、茶末、熟茶等，一般肉類食物多搭配熟茶以去油脂，海鮮類本身比較甘甜，則佐以清茶去腥味，也不致掩蓋茶的味道。