Ippodo

[Deleted User #17669]

Hi to everybody,

I have a question: what do you think about ippodo, it is a good tea vendor?
If compared with OCha, do you think that its teas are at a higher or lower level?

Thank you,

Carlo

[olivierco]

Yes a very good shop with good quality teas.
Their senchas are light steamed and quite all o-cha ones are deep steamed.
As Ippodo only ships via EMS, you should make a large order (6-7 packages) so that the shipping costs won't be too expensive.

[Geekgirl]

Agreed, I like Ippodo a lot, although with the required EMS shipping, I don't order from them as often as I might otherwise. Their matcha is excellent, and very reasonable.

[Pentox]

Heh, I just tried about 5 of ippodo's teas for the first time last night. I tried the hosen most notably which is a middle of their range sencha. It was quite amazing and can't wait to try the top of their end. As oliver pointed out though if you're a fuka fan sure you might want to stick with O-cha, but personally I'm not a fuka person so I'm loving Ippodo so far.

[Salsero]

I just tried about 5 of ippodo's teas for the first time last night.

5 teas in one night? Did they peel you off the ceiling? You must be a superman. I've always wondered how you could blog about so many different teas so regularly. BTW, kudos on your fine blog. I don't comment there very often, but I always read it.

[olivierco]

BTW, kudos on your fine blog. I don't comment there very often, but I always read it.

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[Chip]

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[Wesli]

You can't really compare them because they offer different teas. All, afaik, of Ippodo's tea is traditionally light steamed asamushi. Otoh, most of O-cha's offerings are medium-deep steamed senchas. They're both great for what they have.

[Pentox]

I just tried about 5 of ippodo's teas for the first time last night.

5 teas in one night? Did they peel you off the ceiling? You must be a superman. I've always wondered how you could blog about so many different teas so regularly. BTW, kudos on your fine blog. I don't comment there very often, but I always read it.

heh 5 is about average for me. It's one of the reasons I don't review oolongs and matcha too often, the caffeine really gets to me when i'm 5 infusions in or drinking matcha. Senchas and hojichas though I can go all day.

Thanks for readin' guys!

[Deleted User #17669]

Thank you all for the replies!

i didn't know that all OCha's tea are, on average, more steamed than Ippodo's.
Are you really sure about it? Ok, I tried fukamushi and it is indeed deep-steamed, but I tried also other teas from OCha, e.g. the Kabusecha, and it does not seem to be as steamed as fuka.

Cheers,

Carlo

[Chip]

Yeah, I would not call the kabuse from O-Cha fukamushi. But most of his sencha are of the more steamed variety, such as Yutaka Midori, Chiran Supreme, of course Fukamushi Supreme, Hatsumi, and Miyabi which I would call chumushi/mid steamed.

Besides the Kabuse, the Uji Asamushi Sencha Tsuen "Ujibashi San no Ma", Organic Kaze, and Daily Sencha are light steamed.

But the ones most talked about here seem to be the deeper staemed ones.