After thoroughly enjoying cherry rose sencha, I was curious if there is such a thing as plum sencha, or some other kind of plum-tasting tea.
I tried Rishi's plum cinnamon tea and it was horrible! It tasted like really bad candy. TIA.
Jan 17th, '09, 01:03
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I have come across several plum flavored loose leafs in some internet searches but none from vendors I would ever order from....most appeared to be plum flavorings added to low quality "gunpowder" style greens. I am not one that is into flavored teas....the furthest I will go is drinking genmai-cha ( a japanese green tea combined with toasted grains of rice)......what I typically do, as well as some others here on the forum like Chip, is make our own. For me, the quality of the green tea in many of the genmai-cha's is not very good...so I take my own mid-grade sencha and mix it with rice that I toast myself....it produces an excellent cup! The reason I mention this to you is that it might be hard to find an already made plum green tea that is enjoyable....this is not to say that you couldnt find the ingredients separately and make your own blend. This would be my advice to you! Hope this helps some!
-Nick
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Jan 17th, '09, 19:03
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If you want a true plum flavor with the green tea, this is how I would go about doing it if I were going to drink it:
1) Get an everyday Sencha like this one from O-cha.com (http://www.o-cha.com/green-tea/daily-sencha.html)
2) Buy some dried plums
*I would experiment with adding various amounts of sencha:plum until I found a balance that I liked.
-Remember that unlike making your own genmai-cha the plums, even though they are categorized as "dry", are not really dry. This being said I would not reccomend or even consider making up a large batch and storing the plums and the sencha together. The only way this would be conceivable would be if you actually dehydrated your own plums. Anyway, I hope this helps and I wish you luck in your tea experiments!
-Nick
1) Get an everyday Sencha like this one from O-cha.com (http://www.o-cha.com/green-tea/daily-sencha.html)
2) Buy some dried plums
*I would experiment with adding various amounts of sencha:plum until I found a balance that I liked.
-Remember that unlike making your own genmai-cha the plums, even though they are categorized as "dry", are not really dry. This being said I would not reccomend or even consider making up a large batch and storing the plums and the sencha together. The only way this would be conceivable would be if you actually dehydrated your own plums. Anyway, I hope this helps and I wish you luck in your tea experiments!
-Nick
TaiPing Hou Kui--thank you for the instructions! I will try it out and if I enjoy it, I will be sure to only have it on a cup-by-cup basis.
Tea Noob--thanks! I will do an internet search for plum blossom oolong!
Have either of you ever had plum wine from an Asian restaurant? It is absolutely delish!
Tea Noob--thanks! I will do an internet search for plum blossom oolong!
Have either of you ever had plum wine from an Asian restaurant? It is absolutely delish!