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Depends on the tea. Fukamushi isn't very interesting to look at wet, but some other senchas are nice. Oolongs are very nice to look at wet. I'm drinking coffee right now... good coffee but I would be drinking sencha if my darn order from Maiko had came!!!!! I'm rationing the last of my matcha because I'm out of frickin sencha. I should have checked my e-mails earlier because my order would have been here by now. When i finally checked my e-mails, Maiko had been sending me e-mails requesting to pay the shipping for the past five days. oops...
Oh Nick!!! You got a Deishi Matcha bowl?? And a nice one too!TaiPing Hou Kui wrote:I would have to say it is definitely a toss up.....it is beautiful to see the leaves unfurled and imagine what they might have looked like when still swaying in a breeze but then again it is equally as beautiful to look at a deep green sencha unbrewed....
-Nick
More pics?
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Feb 2nd, '09, 21:37
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guitar9876 wrote:Maiko had been sending me e-mails requesting to pay the shipping for the past five days. oops...
And to think, it could be days away ... or if customs gets their hands on it, well, could be a long drought!Speaking of sencha, Fukamushi Supreme from O-Cha is in my cup this evening.
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And ready to eat!!!TaiPing Hou Kui wrote:Brewed:
Dinner, and a show ...
Yeah, I love the dancing leaves as well!gingko wrote:Love the leaves from start to the end. For most leaves, 10 seconds into brewing is my favorite moment
Awacha sencha to end the TeaDay. Interesting sencha.
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Huh, those leaves look a little unusual to me. It may be the photo though. Are the leaves as wide/flattened as they're looking to me? It also looks really matte in color and almost a bit washy (although I think part of it is lighting)TaiPing Hou Kui wrote:Well, here we have some dry leaves and wet leaves.....which is prettier??? You decide! (www.thejapanesegreenteashop.com's Organic Uji Gyokuro)
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I will never look at spent sencha leaves quite the same way again!
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I like to view Japanese greens before brewing; especially the colour. Chinese greens I like to view after brewing, especially oolongs. I love to see a whole intact leaf after brewing.
A blend of fukamushi sencha Tenho and fukamushi sencha Maki this morning (turned out to be greater than the sum of the parts) and Alishan oolong tonight.
A blend of fukamushi sencha Tenho and fukamushi sencha Maki this morning (turned out to be greater than the sum of the parts) and Alishan oolong tonight.
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You have to be the keenest observer of leaf around. I wish I had you standing behind me when I am working on a photo. In the back of my mind, I am always thinking, "What would Pentox say about this image of leaf (or liquor)?" It's such a fine line between enhanced image and distorted image.Pentox wrote: Huh, those leaves look a little unusual to me. It may be the photo though. Are the leaves as wide/flattened as they're looking to me? It also looks really matte in color and almost a bit washy (although I think part of it is lighting)
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Pentox wrote:
Huh, those leaves look a little unusual to me. It may be the photo though. Are the leaves as wide/flattened as they're looking to me? It also looks really matte in color and almost a bit washy (although I think part of it is lighting)
*Pentox--The leaves are a bit wider than usual.....it is also the angle of the photo as well.....I took it while standing up and kind of at an angle and the lighting bounced off of it in a weird way.....after I uploaded it to photobucked I rotated it 180 degrees and cropped it down so I think you can attribute that to part of it. I also had to change the hue slightly and also the lightness to get it to look as close as possible to what it actually looked like in front of me...the leaves are so shiny in their unbrewed form it is hard to not get odd light reflecting back and making the color seem a little lighter.
]*Victoria[/b]--[bYes, that is a Deishi Matcha bowl....I will post some pics of it soon....I am working on making a Hagi picture series right now....I have had my "go to" Deishi Hagi Kyusu for a little over a year now and have brewed in it almost every day and you can really see a difference in the way it looks from when I first got it and as of present now that tea has had time to seep into many of the glossy cracks.
-Nick
Huh, those leaves look a little unusual to me. It may be the photo though. Are the leaves as wide/flattened as they're looking to me? It also looks really matte in color and almost a bit washy (although I think part of it is lighting)
*Pentox--The leaves are a bit wider than usual.....it is also the angle of the photo as well.....I took it while standing up and kind of at an angle and the lighting bounced off of it in a weird way.....after I uploaded it to photobucked I rotated it 180 degrees and cropped it down so I think you can attribute that to part of it. I also had to change the hue slightly and also the lightness to get it to look as close as possible to what it actually looked like in front of me...the leaves are so shiny in their unbrewed form it is hard to not get odd light reflecting back and making the color seem a little lighter.
]*Victoria[/b]--[bYes, that is a Deishi Matcha bowl....I will post some pics of it soon....I am working on making a Hagi picture series right now....I have had my "go to" Deishi Hagi Kyusu for a little over a year now and have brewed in it almost every day and you can really see a difference in the way it looks from when I first got it and as of present now that tea has had time to seep into many of the glossy cracks.
-Nick