Just one YM sincha...I've got some fukamushi sincha supreme, but I haven't opened that one yet.
This morning in my cup 1/2 Ceylon Kenilworth and 1/2 Assam. Made a big pot, multiple steeps to make LOTS of iced...it is already HOT here today.
Have an awesome tea day!
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Jun 20th, '09, 13:33
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I have 1 shincha open, 2 remaining Chinese greens, 1 yellow, 2 puerh cakes, at least 1 oolong, and maybe 15 FF Darjeelings, though I don't count those. At the moment I am drinking the shincha: Takumi from Zencha. This is the first Zencha tea I have had. I notice that Oni says he likes their Kiwami sencha more this year than the Takumi.
White tea in the photo: Silver Needles come from a special tea plant that has extra fat growth tips, the only part of the plant that is used to make the best quality Silver Needles tea.
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White tea in the photo: Silver Needles come from a special tea plant that has extra fat growth tips, the only part of the plant that is used to make the best quality Silver Needles tea.
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Jun 20th, '09, 13:56
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Well about to be two, so I voted two. I have sae midori from o-cha, and about to open a darjeeling from camellia sinensis. Still have 8 more 09's to open after that, plus I ordered some 2nd flush yesterday... So broke!! hahaha
About to have some masala chai from my local indian restuarant, then some sae midori, then opening the new bag of ff darjeeling AHHHHHHH!!!! can't wait to try it
About to have some masala chai from my local indian restuarant, then some sae midori, then opening the new bag of ff darjeeling AHHHHHHH!!!! can't wait to try it
Right now I am having a Green Tea with Boba. - Very addicting, I find I am always wanting to stop for one whenever I am out and about.
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Jun 20th, '09, 15:36
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One tea open here, Yutaka Midori.
I also have a bag of Hou De's 2009 Spring "Tie Guan Yin" of NanTou PuZhong sitting in the tea corner of my kitchen, but it's yet to be opened.
Started today with some nondescript Ceylon OP which I suspect has been stored less than airtight, near both coffee and flavoured tea
My Yunnan from that same shop smells and tastes similar to it. Won't be buying from them again.
For my next cup I switched to another Ceylon sample of better quality and no 'acquired odours'.
Right now I'm sipping pu erh, keeping track of the number of infusions to see how far it'll go.
I also have a bag of Hou De's 2009 Spring "Tie Guan Yin" of NanTou PuZhong sitting in the tea corner of my kitchen, but it's yet to be opened.
Started today with some nondescript Ceylon OP which I suspect has been stored less than airtight, near both coffee and flavoured tea
My Yunnan from that same shop smells and tastes similar to it. Won't be buying from them again. For my next cup I switched to another Ceylon sample of better quality and no 'acquired odours'.
Right now I'm sipping pu erh, keeping track of the number of infusions to see how far it'll go.
A few weeks ago we were at one of the Asian markets in Portland and I bought three packages of tapioca pearls (green tea, rainbow, and black) thinking it would be fun to make bubble tea. Then I went to the bubble tea stand and bought some - the first few sips were okay, but I didn't like the texture of the boba. If only I had tried the tea BEFORE buying the pearls! Definitely a lesson learned.Victoria wrote:Right now I am having a Green Tea with Boba. - Very addicting, I find I am always wanting to stop for one whenever I am out and about.
Funny, my favorite part of bubble tea is the pearls... the tea is never very good, always too sweet and more like koolaid. I bought some black pearls at the asian market and my plan is to partially cook them and then finish them out directly in some tea so they'll be nicely infused with tea flavor... and then toss them into some iced tea. We'll see how it turns out. I have to find some bubble tea straws though.
Drinking some iced Darjeeling, which had some orange zest added to the leaves during steeping... wow, so good. Yes, I am on a zesting spree! It really perked up the 3rd infusion of some leaves that were starting to give up. Yummmm.
Sarah
Drinking some iced Darjeeling, which had some orange zest added to the leaves during steeping... wow, so good. Yes, I am on a zesting spree! It really perked up the 3rd infusion of some leaves that were starting to give up. Yummmm.
Sarah
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Unless Geeber has those too. LOL Jun 20th, '09, 18:55
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Wonder how the boba will be after a nice soak in some rum. 
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