Hi all,
Found a tea in Jusco (department store with a supermarket) tonight. HKD60 for 100g (~USD8). It's clearly a green tea…I think.
It's labelled 八女茶 (Yamecha) in large, but on the side says 福みどり, which Google translates as "Fuzhou green". Fuzhou's in Fujian so…is this a Chinese-grown tea or…:?:
Smell: Like matcha but also a bit like a hayfield in summer on a farm by the sea.
Taste: Reminds me of matcha (the kind you taste in ice cream — I don't think I've ever drunk real matcha before) only not so sweet. Rather grassy and leaves my mouth a bit dry…tiny hint of bitterness, but neither in a medicinal nor astringent (which would give me a bit of sour as well) way.
I'm brewing with about 3g to 200ml, ~80ºC at a guess (I boiled water then opened the lid and waited for 5 minutes in an ACd room at 25ºC), for about 1.5 minutes. As expected (and I really wasn't expecting much, given the price), it's lost ~70% of its flavour this second infusion.
But my question is: What is this tea?
Oh, and on the nutrition label it says "Yame-cha Tea Fuku Midori green tea".
Aug 17th, '13, 12:24
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Re: What is this tea?
... my guess is Fuku Midori sencha from Yame on the island of Kyushu Japan.
Any photos of the tea and brew?
Any photos of the tea and brew?
Re: What is this tea?
I didn't get any photos of the liquor before I finished it but from googling images of sencha, it's kind of that colour…reminiscent of the green of grass just before it turns to hay?
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Hm, fuka I could understand. In fact there is a tea called Fuka Midori from Den's which I would transalate as "deep green."
Re: What is this tea?
I think FukuMidori may be a cultivar.
http://www.thes-du-japon.com/index.php? ... cts_id=187
This link above has a tea that's said to be
http://www.thes-du-japon.com/index.php? ... cts_id=187
This link above has a tea that's said to be
cultivar.Fukumidori
Aug 17th, '13, 23:12
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Re: What is this tea?
So conclusion is that it's a cheap sencha. Sorted!
…that tin of powder I bought the other day was also sencha, I have since found (konacha). Matcha seems to be impossible to find in HK…(this was ~USD10 for 30g).
Anyway, thanks for the help guys.
Now for the bitter lessons of learning how to brew this properly.
…that tin of powder I bought the other day was also sencha, I have since found (konacha). Matcha seems to be impossible to find in HK…(this was ~USD10 for 30g).
Anyway, thanks for the help guys.
Now for the bitter lessons of learning how to brew this properly.
Re: What is this tea?
By the way, 'fuzhou' was an odd translation of 福 (potentially Chinese, but then it's just 'fu'). In Japanese, it would be 'fuku.'