Comments on: The Bitter Weeping of Oversteeped Tea Leaves http://www.gongfugirl.com/2008/07/the-bitter-weeping-of-oversteeped-tea-leaves/ Discovering the way of tea, one cup at a time. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Cinnabar http://www.gongfugirl.com/2008/07/the-bitter-weeping-of-oversteeped-tea-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 Cinnabar Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:09:29 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=322#comment-1389 In this case there was no infuser to remove, or I probably would have. The leaves were loose in the pot which had a strainer incorporated into the teapot over the inner part of the spout. For the sake of assessing the experience that most guests at the restaurant would get when drinking tea in this manner it was important to see how bad it would get. Evaluating the experience as presented by the establishment is more important to me than my personal enjoyment of the thing. In this case there was no infuser to remove, or I probably would have. The leaves were loose in the pot which had a strainer incorporated into the teapot over the inner part of the spout. For the sake of assessing the experience that most guests at the restaurant would get when drinking tea in this manner it was important to see how bad it would get. Evaluating the experience as presented by the establishment is more important to me than my personal enjoyment of the thing.

]]> By: Webcowgirl http://www.gongfugirl.com/2008/07/the-bitter-weeping-of-oversteeped-tea-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Webcowgirl Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:12:19 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=322#comment-1388 It is a shock to me how frequently these kinds of details are overlooked in restaurants! I am quite unforgiving and take the infusers out and put them on the saucer my cup is (hopefully) sitting on. The sad this is, most people don't know enough to complain, but they really ought to! To think of how many times I've been served a wretched glass of iced tea - one that had gone bad - at a restaurant and the people who were serving it couldn't even tell it tasted off (just like an orange juice would if it had started to ferment). In this case, asking for a saucer would be the right thing to do, or THEY could hold on to the pot, take the infuser out themselves, and only bring the pot over once the tea was ready to drink. It is a shock to me how frequently these kinds of details are overlooked in restaurants! I am quite unforgiving and take the infusers out and put them on the saucer my cup is (hopefully) sitting on. The sad this is, most people don’t know enough to complain, but they really ought to! To think of how many times I’ve been served a wretched glass of iced tea – one that had gone bad – at a restaurant and the people who were serving it couldn’t even tell it tasted off (just like an orange juice would if it had started to ferment). In this case, asking for a saucer would be the right thing to do, or THEY could hold on to the pot, take the infuser out themselves, and only bring the pot over once the tea was ready to drink.

]]> By: Cinnabar http://www.gongfugirl.com/2008/07/the-bitter-weeping-of-oversteeped-tea-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-804 Cinnabar Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:41:14 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=322#comment-804 That video is interesting. Thank you. That video is interesting. Thank you.

]]> By: lionserpent http://www.gongfugirl.com/2008/07/the-bitter-weeping-of-oversteeped-tea-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-799 lionserpent Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:04:39 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=322#comment-799 I just received this from a SF based tea company. It's a nice promo video that you may like. Check it out: http://www.samovartea.com/html/lounge/teatv.cfm I just received this from a SF based tea company. It’s a nice promo video that you may like. Check it out:

http://www.samovartea.com/html/lounge/teatv.cfm

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