FryDay TeaDay 12/3/10

[Chip]

Greetings TeaAficionados to a FryDay TeaDay. Please do drop in and share what is in your cup throughout the day.

Yesterday we discussed ThirsTea. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

FryDay TeaPoll and discussion topic is again brought to you by Herb_Master. For you, what tea pairs with fried food ... or any food? Please share.

I am looking forward to sharing this TeaDay with everyone. Bottoms up.

[entropyembrace]

with fried food...a nice oily dian hong...the kind that instantly stains anything it touches with it´s heavy tea oils

[artmom]

A black, of course! A good, strong Yunnan w/milk will cut any excess oil from the frying.

[tortoise]

High roasted, dark oolongs pair best with fried food for me. I imagine houjicha would pair nicely as well, though I don't have the experience to back it up.

[nrstooge]

I mixed earl grey creme and irish breakfast this morning - don't know why.. just felt like it. We are at our busiest at work this month and I need something strong for my "to go" tea infuser/desk at work.

[Victoria]

Oolong with everything!
Of course.

[Mrs. Chip]

I know Chip has stated this numerous times on the forum, we normally don't usually drink tea with our meals. However, we do enjoy genmaicha at our fave sushi bar with lunch.

We normally will have tea before or about 1/2 an hour after our meal.

Sencha this morning at our TeaTable in 'Tempest', while Shincha and Wulong enjoyed KittyTreats! While Space did her best imitation of 'VelcroCat' to date!

Have a great TeaDay everyone!

[TwoPynts]

A roasted oolong or dark black I suppose.
Some pu afterward to aid digestion.

Tea with the "Earl" this AM and now I'm moving on to Alishan Tai He.

[Nenugal]

Today I'm drinking Wei Shan Mao Jian; I think this one would fit well with smoked food, and possibly fried food too.

[msurads06]

I dont usually drink tea with greasy fried foods. If i am eating fried foods, it is proabaly at a restaurant and i will reach for a soda. As for other food pairings, i usually drink my main tea of the day without food but I will usually do an infusion of whatever tea i am already drinking to go with lunch. Since cutting back on sodas, i will occasionally drink a young sheng with salty snacks like plain salted popcorn or crackers. Shu or a mild black seem to pair fairly well with homemade cookies/lightly sweet deserts.

09 bulang today testing out my new teapots.

[NOESIS]

I go for a bracing young sheng. Really cuts through the lipids.

[Proinsias]

For a breakfast fry up - sausage, bacon, blackpudding etc I opt for black with a little bit of milk. Young sheng is great after really greasy food.

[AdamMY]

I do enjoy fried foods, but rarely eat them any more, but I think they would work with a nice and robust tea, but for a while afterwards I think a nice puerh tea.

[Herb_Master]

Bacon and Eggs for breakfast, it must be English Breakfast tea.

[entropyembrace]

early 90´s Baozhong from IPT´s Chinese Tea Culture today....sweet fruity and very smooth. The roasting flavours are quite subdued with the fruit being the strongest flavour. I´m guessing it wasn´t re-roasted too recently

It´s a bit annoying when I buy aged oolong and it´s been re-roasted strongly very recently so that it needs to be aged more to enjoy!

but not the case here