What is going on!

[hop_goblin]

Ok, I have spoken to 4 - one this morning on the bus going to school - Japanese Exchange students of which none have heard of fukamushi sencha! They drink tea but have never heard of this particular kind.

[Mary R]

Aha! I knew it! It's all just a ploy by the Japanese tea industry to get the white devils to drink their discarded tea dust!

[Chip]

Perhaps, and I only say perhaps, I have heard young Asians are more geared towards western drinks and more modernized drinks...trendy drinks, which is ashame and another topic.

But perhaps, while they drink tea, they are not as informed as the tea nutz who reside here. Kevin of O-Cha told me that hardly anyone knows about his Fukamushi, so perhaps it has an ecclectic cult following.

I always had a suspicion that the Fukamushi Dynasty was a cult...ummm, "don't drink the fuka!!!"

[Space Samurai]

But perhaps, while they drink tea, they are not as informed as the tea nutz who reside here.

I've thought that for a while; just because a person comes from a tea drinking nation like England/China/Japan, does not make that person an experienced or knowledgeable tea drinker by default, particularly when compared to people like us who literally spend every day pursuing and consuming tea. Just because one of us is American, does not preclude that we know the first thing about coffee or semi-automatic weapons.

[Chip]

Space, have you checked to make sure you still have all that gorgeous teaware?

Just a little off subject...

[Space Samurai]

Oh Chip, I am so pleased you chose to bring this up in a place where I CAN aequately and properly express my feeling on your topic:

FUK YOU, CHIP

Keep yo' damned hands off my pots. Please.

(HAH! I outsmarted you silly anti-profanity soft ware).

[hop_goblin]

You know if you Japanese tea fans ever start a Japanse tea clas you could name it Fukamushi University FUK. U. for short!

[Mary R]

*Waits for Fukamushi Dynasty to change his blog name to that. Waaaaits for it...*

[Chip]

OUCH... I had that coming, Space...

*turns U-haul around and heads back to PA.*

[bambooforest]

Ok, I have spoken to 4 - one this morning on the bus going to school - Japanese Exchange students of which none have heard of fukamushi sencha! They drink tea but have never heard of this particular kind.

Master Hop - I have tried to talk to Asians about tea before. I have given up long ago because it has always been fruitless. Furthermore, though many Japanese may be clueless about fuka - I can assure you that all Japanese are black belts in karate and jui jitsu. This I know with certainty.

[Thirsty Daruma]

For most Japanese, green tea is a cool, refreshing liquid available from almost every vending machine in Japan, or a hot, relatively weak drink at restaurants.

My host family only ever drank barley tea (mugicha). Not ONCE did we every drink any other kind of tea. Or any other liquid for that matter...

I found more green tea flavored food and snack items than I did green tea itself. I think it might be comparable to wine where many Westerners may have tried it but don't really know anything about it.

[hop_goblin]

Ok, I have spoken to 4 - one this morning on the bus going to school - Japanese Exchange students of which none have heard of fukamushi sencha! They drink tea but have never heard of this particular kind.

Master Hop - I have tried to talk to Asians about tea before. I have given up long ago because it has always been fruitless. Furthermore, though many Japanese may be clueless about fuka - I can assure you that all Japanese are black belts in karate and jui jitsu. This I know with certainty.

Ok Bamboo, I also had that coming! I guess it was a bit stereotypical of me to assume that all Japanese should be hip to teas!

[bambooforest]

Hop, I was totally kidding. I meant basically nothing with what I said - it just sounded fun to say. Your commentary on stereotypes is interesting, however it was no where even near my mind when I wrote this.

The martial art thing I just found funny and a bit ridiculous. It was merely an opportunity to write something silly. However, the notion that people from the mother land would be at least somewhat hip to tea would seem like a reasonable scenario.

The few time's I've attempted to talk tea with my Asian compadres, it has been totally unssuccesful. So, no, I wasn't mocking you in anyway whatsoever. I just wanted to write something silly, and I believe my objective was fully accomplished. But again, it wasn't to make a point or anything like that. Just to say something silly because the opportunity had arisen.

By the way Hop, can you home brew something that tastes similar to Sierra Nevada Pale Ale That stuff is bliss.

[Wesli]

Those asian suckers are drinking coffee ad bottled tea now. What nonsense. Makes me feel like one in a billion. What makes it cool is that if we ever go to a tea farm or factory, we might be given a lot of respect.

[skywarrior]

Coffee and bottled tea? What is WRONG with them!

We must have them take back their culture where it comes to tea.