“mate”) — about 3/4 full. A metal straw (the "bombilla") with one filtered end is stuck into the dry leaves and settled, resting against one side of the cup. I’ve seen people pour a little cold water into...

of these places sell the mate gourds and bombillas too. Good luck!

I went the other day as well for the second time. it’s such a nice neighborhood place; pretty simple food, but obviously done with care. as i mentioned before, they have real mate service — with the gourd, bombilla,...

It is a green tea grown in South America that is most commonly drunk in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. You put the loose tea in a gourd, and drink it through a silver straw with holes in it called a bombilla. The gourd...

Tried some and liked it. Went online and ordered 10 different 4 oz samples, a glass wonder straw and a few different uncured and cured cups (all with strange sounding names)-bombilla ! Anyhow, any CH advice as to how do I...

me into it. It needs to be drunk properly of course. Lots of leaves and a bombilla to sip through. I can understand why a lot of people wouldn’t like maté though. Each to their own!

it through a bombilla, butI found it to be too inconvenient, and I wasn’t getting enough outof each gourd-full. Now I make it in a small French press and pur it into a cup. One tip, don’t use boiling water, as it...

've tried doing this myself and it never works, but it still turns out okay). You then let it settle a bit and put in the bombilla (a metal straw with the strainer on the end) on the side without the mate and drink. Then you pass...

I drink mate regularly........For a quick fix, you can buy the Yerba Mate bags at Trader Joe’s. Pretty decent quality. A couple of years ago, I bought a bombilla (cup made of hollowed out gourd) and metal straw from a matte...

I contacted a few of the tour guides below and none of them replied to me (La Bombilla did not e-mail me back and neither did another contact). Alas, I met nychinlanga near our hotel last week and had a wonderful tour of the...

) and bombillas (straws) as well. Not so cheap, but well made. This place also looked like it had a really good parrilla going too. Just another item of interest – Uruguayans are wild about Mate (I think just a little more...

Brazilian friends of mine turned me on years ago to yerba mate. They had the traditional gourds and bombillas to sip them through, which is a really cool ritual and all, but kinda messy and too time consuming when I want a mate...

bags of standard stuff – all pretty strong. Typically, this is drunk in a cup (also called a mate) with a bombilla, or metal straw with a filter. You pour the loose tea over the mate tea and then fill with water and a...

. This is really what it’s all about. We had yerba mate vendor of a North American branded/repackaged tea once claim to us that North Americans would never go for the mate and bombilla approach... however, from our sales and...

yes you can. the traditional method with the gourd and bombilla makes for strong mate, using a strainer can let you control the strength a bit more accurately. haven’t seen any specialist mate places round here, but most...