iovetea wrote: You could spend a fortune and still not get decent japanese tea
To be fair, I think you can say this about most teas. There is plenty of heavily marked up crap tea in every genre and from every country of origin.
iovetea wrote: You could spend a fortune and still not get decent japanese tea
gaoxingru wrote:According to the Buddhist priest only water from a slow-moving stream was acceptable for making tea and the tea leaves had to be placed in a porcelain cup. The perfect place for enjoying the brew was in a pavilion next to a water lily pond, preferably in the company of a woman. .