Mighty Leaf’s Marakesh Mint Green Tea doesn’t taste like the traditional tea that they make in Morrocco. Only a particular brewing technique and fresh mint leaves can accomplish that, but it does taste like something nice and flavorful, especially if it’s cold. And cold, it also tastes like a drink you might relish if you [...]
Closely tying in to the last post, I wanted to provide some details on the Banko-Yaki Houhin teapot that I referred to. I wasn’t really in the market for a teapot in this style when I came across this one several months ago, but I really liked the look of it so I bought it. [...]
Mellow Monk’s Top Leaf is the first flush (Spring picking) of a type of Japanese green tea processed differently from most, as a type of Sencha called Tamaryokucha. It is a lovely tea and one that exhibits signs of having been processed with care and attention. Mellow Monk buys all of its teas from small [...]
I have an odd relationship with lavender; while I don’t really care for the scent of it at all (and that’s the way it’s most commonly used here in the U.S.), I do enjoy the flavor of it, particularly combined with other flavors. Lavender and tea is a natural pairing in my eyes. When I [...]
The difference between Jing Tea’s Pre Rain Dragon Well Supreme Green Tea (Long Jing) and that green stuff available for under $4/lb in grocery stores labeled as “Dragon Well” is akin to the difference between an Elvis-themed wedding chapel in Las Vegas and the Cathedral at Notre Dame. In other words, don’t go to Vegas. [...]
Sometimes a full gongfu cha ceremony is beyond the scope of time or practicality or attention span. One method that I use at times like this employs two gaiwans. I use the first one to brew the tea. Then after the requisite steeping time, which is dependent on how many infusions I have already brewed, [...]
Call me a traditionalist, but I generally prefer steeping my tea rather than steeping myself in my tea. Not everyone feels this way, as evidenced by the popularity of the green tea room at Hakone Kowakien Yunessun hot springs spa resort and water amusement park located in the Hakone region of Japan. A unique spa [...]
Organic Green Dragon is Mighty Leaf’s version of the classic Chinese Dragonwell. It has a more perfumy pre-infused scent than any dragonwell or other Chinese green tea that I have had, which is a little unsettling, but it brews into a very smooth, calming liquor. It exhibits a very noticeable vegetal and long-lasting aftertaste, but [...]
For a very long time I believed that I did not like green tea, so I avoided it. To me the taste was reminiscent of three-week-old grass clippings swept up off of a dusty garage floor. I still hold this as an accurate description of the taste of teabags of poor quality green tea steeped [...]
I recently acquired a Chinese tea thermos. This type of tea thermos is quite common in China, carried around by workers as they go about their day, green tea readily at hand and replenished as necessary. I have also seen a few people with them in the International District in Seattle. Cat wrote about one [...]
