Coffee versus tea: Which team are you on?

By The Backpacker
Updated August 19 2014 - 12:23pm, first published 11:37am
Time out: Girls chat over a cup of tea and a cigarette in a cafe.
Time out: Girls chat over a cup of tea and a cigarette in a cafe.

The streets of Tehran are as manic as ever, a cacophony of cars, pedestrians, shop-owners and restaurateurs all battling for their little slice of a smoggy city. People stream past on the pavements on all sides, headed towards the bazaar, or away from the bazaar, or somewhere else entirely.