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Any green tea lovers here?

>>1848 Surely this is random. Yes, green tea is awesome. I love going for the whole experience of brewing it slowly, pouring it and then observing as steam accumulates on the surface of the tea. Tea is great. Also tea is the layman's intro to drugs. My fave being lemon balm.

I love it, brought some from Japan its really smooth. What is your favorite brand to buy easily?

>>1850 We should have a cook board where we can share recipes and soykaf. I can live without mary jane, but I won't survive long without tea. >>1861 I don't like the grassy and savory taste of japanese teas, so I go for sweet tasting chinese teas. My ultimate favourite is a lung ching sold by an old couple in germany. Tried many different grades of lung ching from different shops, but never liked any of them as much as I like this specific one. It's not even a very high grade, but the balance of sweet and nutty flavor is perfect for me. Other than that I go for oolongs, again because of thair natural sweet taste and floral smell. Jasmine pearls, kekecha, milky oolong and osmanthus oolong are all time favourites.

Green tea is my standard drink for breakfast and all-nighters. Wouldn't call myself a lover, but I'm always curious to try new brands. I was really surprised when I tasted what they served in japan, though it might have been barley tea, not actual green tea. >>1862 Cooking and recipes belong on /diy/.

Yep, it's great. Too bad I can't find good ones where I live now, though. I wanted to try good japanese matcha, but I can't get it locally. I drink it without sweetener, but any of you use it? I was thinking about put MSG on it, just to see...

Any good starters on finding good tea? All I've ever had is Lipton's lol

All (loose leaf) tea is good in its own way, but green tea was the first I really got in to, never having liked the teabags I'd had access to before. >>1861 Depends on what I'm in the mood for, but generally I drink sencha, houjicha, and gunpowder. I don't really have a preference for Chinese over Japanese, it's all good. >>1862 Have you tried any Taiwanese oolongs? Taiwan is generally regarded as the best in the world for oolong, so if you can get some good-quality stuff imported, it's really special. But the downside is that you have to be very careful with how you brew it, some teas I've been fortunate enough to try have had a brewing time as low as 20 seconds! And that really is enough to get the flavour out. >>1890 Go to the tea aisle in your supermarket and see what there is! Even generic bagged green tea is enough to get started, it's usually some sort of sencha. The best is loose-leaf though, so try to find a shop or website where you can get some.

Before I quit caffeine, I very much liked white tea and oolong tea. I very much can recommend them as for flavor, and I recommend people try every `color' of tea. Green tea was nice, but for some reason I didn't prefer it. I don't remember now.

I haven't explored light green and white teas anywhere near as much as I have darker varieties and herbals despite having been drinking green for longer. I currently have sencha, gunpowder, dragon well, and a jasmine blend in stock. Of the four I generally prefer the blend and the dragon well, but I find the care I take in preparing them to be more important. I seriously over-steeped some gunpowder last night and it gave the name a whole new meaning. Typically stores around where I live only carry sencha. In order to get the other varieties I've got to go up to Chinatown.

>>1903 I've had some taiwanese oolongs, and I'm happy with most of them. The only downsode is that the higher grade stuff seems to be priced similarly to pot. tl dr good stuff is too expensive. >>1918 You can always order online anon, I always order online.

>>1862 Well we can share recipes here I guess.

Anselmo, is that you?

>>1929 Sure thing lainbro, I'm gonna attempt making an edible meal out of sticky slimy natto in a couple of weeks, I can open a thread with the results.

>>1976 Lol, get some corn smut and make smutto.

>>1976 Natto is good in homemade sushi. The thing is that you shouldn't add too much

Been thinking about pine tea recently, anyone have any experience?

I drink green 2-3 times a day 5+ days a week. It's pretty simple -- get a thermos, some loose green tea leaves (the larger, better leaves the better), get some water to just under boiling, and pour it in. You can drink it throughout the day and keep pouring hot water in when it empties. Good green tea should last 2-3 refills. The stuff I have right now was picked up in Hangzhou when I was in china and now I'm running out. Anyone know where to get some decent-quality loose leaf tea imported from china online?

This site gives a nice introduction to japanese green teas: http://theartofjapanesegreentea.com/

I drink cheap chinese green tea every day. Got some seeds recently and trying to grow my own.

I have a very hard time preparing green tea. Most of the time it gets bitter or tasteless, even though I'm recording water temperature, amount of Tea in gram and time. In 1 of 20 cases I get it right somehow and then it's great.

>>2004 Do you live in Europe or us? I can offer some good online shops depending on your answer. Also, leaving the tea leaves in water for proloinged periods would make the bitter tannins dissolve and that's something people usually try to avoid. >>2010 Do update us on your progress please. Mildly related the complete genome of Camelia sinensis is sequenced for the first time and they think it may contains clues about how one leaf produces so many flavors https://phys.org/news/2017-05-tea-tree-genome-clues-leaf.html >>2042 If it's bitter, you're brewing it for too long and bitter tannins are being dissolved, if it's tasteless, try increasing the amount you brew with while keeping the time constant. Does the shop you buy from include brewing instructions and time with their tea?

I don't consume anything caffeinated personally , but I was wondering if anyone still did any smuggling of illicit , rare, expensive or restricted teas including stuff like * Tienchi Flower Tea * Gyokuro * Poo Poo Pu-Erh Tea * Silver Tips Imperial Tea * Tieguanyin * Yellow Gold Tea Buds * Vintage Narcissus Wuyi Oolong Tea * Panda Dung Tea * Dà Hóng Páo Tea * PG Tips Diamond Tea Bag * Kahwah * Iranian tea * Fermented Yak Butter Tea * Yellow Gold Tea Buds * White Cucumber Tea * Monkey-Picked Tie Guan Yin * Dragon Well Tea * Ecuadorian Coca leaf tea * Luo Han Guo or Monk Fruit tea * Jun Shan Golden Needles * kama-iri sei tamaryokucha Tea smuggling is a real problem in Pakistan, at least according to https://tribune.com.pk/story/675257/illicit-trade-tea-smuggling-shaves-rs8-7b-off-potential-tax-revenues/ , but I don't know if it is world wide phenomena, though it was certainly something done in the past as per https://www.tea.co.uk/tea-smuggling and Inside the Illicit Economy: Reconstructing the Smugglers' Trade of Sixteenth Century Bristol. Also does anyone know of illicit teahouses like the following https://la.curbed.com/2015/7/1/9944100/griffith-park-teahouse and what the following website is https://illicittea.com/ is about ? Please be careful to not incriminate yourselves if your are some sort of tea smuggling baron/baroness or mastermind.

>>2105 Usually they do; recently I've had some luck with black Darjeeling, but the bag is empty and now I'm sad.

>>2105 >Camellia sinensis genome sequenced That's pretty interesting! >>2132 I had no idea that tea smuggling existed, though it's obvious in hindsight. Some varieties of tea, such as good quality Tie Guan Yin, can cost a small fortune, and the best stuff doesn't get exported.

I love it but I almost never have any because I don't have the patience or discipline for the delayed gratification of taking time to make it ;_;

Does anyone have a recommendable website where I can order Lapsang Souchong from China and have it sent to Europe ? The tea is now derezzed because the european commission passed a law that forbids the sale of foods smoked with pinewood due to the risk of cancerous particules from the process.