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Japanese teas are unique in flavor, to be sure. And, the teaware is very compelling, indeed. But, I could never drink just one type of tea all the time. Sure, for a week or so, I could drink a type of tea but then the craving for something else sets in. I could never turn my back on Taiwan oolongs or TGY or Darjeelings. Plus, Wuyi and Puerh? No way I am giving those up!lkj23 wrote:This year is my first year drinking high quality teas and I have bought a lof of chinese teas (scare of radiation). But a lot is a lot![]()
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. Then since I have received my order from japanese teas from 2010 I only drink japanese teas, I don´t know why but my body asks me to drink sencha all the time.
Yes, I love taiwanese oolong and pu-erh but I basically drink green tea, others 2 or 3 times a week. I have never tried TGY, DArjeeling or Wuyi teas, I have to explore a lot.Tead Off wrote:Japanese teas are unique in flavor, to be sure. And, the teaware is very compelling, indeed. But, I could never drink just one type of tea all the time. Sure, for a week or so, I could drink a type of tea but then the craving for something else sets in. I could never turn my back on Taiwan oolongs or TGY or Darjeelings. Plus, Wuyi and Puerh? No way I am giving those up!lkj23 wrote:This year is my first year drinking high quality teas and I have bought a lof of chinese teas (scare of radiation). But a lot is a lot![]()
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. Then since I have received my order from japanese teas from 2010 I only drink japanese teas, I don´t know why but my body asks me to drink sencha all the time.
I have turned my back on darjeelings, but other than those and Assams, I crave them all from time to time. And much as I enjoy a morning sencha, if I'm traveling with very limited baggage, I'll bring a couple of oolongs along for the trip and leave the sencha behind.Tead Off wrote: Sure, for a week or so, I could drink a type of tea but then the craving for something else sets in. I could never turn my back on Taiwan oolongs or TGY or Darjeelings. Plus, Wuyi and Puerh? No way I am giving those up!
There are some reliable vendors right there that you can buy from as opposed to many other teas from countries where the vendor is removed from the gardens sometimes by thousands of miles. I worry less about Darjeelings than about Chinese teas.debunix wrote:The production is so limited of true, pure Darjeeling that the rest of you should be glad I'm leaving more of the precious leaf for you!
Heh, I drink mainly sencha, but that second steeping of a powerhouse fuka is always too much for me and I wind up diluting it.Chesslover wrote:For me personally chinese teas are way too much delicate...I like the thick, full of umami, second steeping of fukamushi sencha...just can't beat that taste
Chip had to bust out some poetry for that answerChip wrote:Perhaps because once smitten, it is hard to resist the steamed leaf.
It is the tea that I crave each night thinking about the first tea of the day
It is the tea that I first think of whenever I want tea.
Maybe they lace it with highly addictive drugs ...
Actually it was not always this way on TeaChat. When I joined 5 years ago, sencha was pratically a bad word!!! How things have changed.