Yerba Mate

Mate is pronounced like [ma:te],it is kinda herb tea from South America. I was lucky since I have one classmate from Argentina,and yesterday she brought some of this herb tea and some of the special cups and straw for this tea.

It tasted a little bit bitter,a littlbe bit like Chinese medicine.But she added quite much sugar then it still tasted like medicine,but it was that kinda nice medicine.
This products is hardly found in Finland and quite expensive,do not know if you can find in your palce.I have never seen it in China.
Here is one link I found from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate">Yerba mate.