Tea

[ubs]

OK, so tea is getting to be all the rage here in the US. You may have heard of it...leaves floating around in hot water.

Anyway, I decided to order some real tea. I bought Orchid Olong from Darjeeling through Mighty Leaf. I followed all of the 11 rules, except that I didn't add milk.

Pros: Smells like heaven, hauntingly so. I felt good after drinking it. When I drink coffee I feel awake but unwell. Not so with the tea.

Cons: It tastes like water.

What am I doing wrong? Does it always taste like water? Did I buy the wrong kind? Are the 11 rules bullshit?

[Captain Relativity]

What am I doing wrong?

Well ubs, you're drinking tea to start with.

[ubs]

Captain Relativity wrote

Well ubs, you're drinking tea to start with.

LOL!

ubs wrote

OK, so tea is getting to be all the rage here in the US. You may have heard of it...leaves floating around in hot water.

Anyway, I decided to order some real tea. I bought Orchid Olong from Darjeeling through Mighty Leaf. I followed all of the 11 rules, except that I didn't add milk.

Pros: Smells like heaven, hauntingly so. I felt good after drinking it. When I drink coffee I feel awake but unwell. Not so with the tea.

Cons: It tastes like water.

What am I doing wrong? Does it always taste like water? Did I buy the wrong kind? Are the 11 rules bullshit?

I doubt you did anything wrong. There is a fancy Thai restaurant here with a fabulous tea menu, which I have been working my way through. Some of the priciest teas on it taste like dish water, though the color and fragrance are simply heavenly.

If you want to drink fabulous and healthy tea, you have an importer in your backyard. Den's Tea is where I get the best green tea on earth-- true Japanese Sencha. Thanks to Den, I have also discovered Genmaicha which is green tea with roasted rice in it. The first time you drink Japanese green tea, you will think you are drinking grass and bark. You will be an addict by the 3rd cup. This is not an unmitigated good, since the stuff is expensive, but worth it in my opinion.

[Eva]

i love green tea precisely because because it tastes like fresh grass clippings, that you rake after mowing...

[Captain Relativity]

...you will think you are drinking grass...




...what a surprise.

[Smellyoldgit]

.. but of course, tea must be taken in the afternoon, with cucumber sammiges, cream scones and only the best china.



.. and one's pinky must also rise to the occasion.

[Eva]

and a fun hat, evidently.

[Sternwallow]

Bovina wrote

I doubt you did anything wrong. There is a fancy Thai restaurant here with a fabulous tea menu, which I have been working my way through. Some of the priciest teas on it taste like dish water, though the color and fragrance are simply heavenly.

If you want to drink fabulous and healthy tea, you have an importer in your backyard. Den's Tea is where I get the best green tea on earth-- true Japanese Sencha. Thanks to Den, I have also discovered Genmaicha which is green tea with roasted rice in it. The first time you drink Japanese green tea, you will think you are drinking grass and bark. You will be an addict by the 3rd cup. This is not an unmitigated good, since the stuff is expensive, but worth it in my opinion.

Remember when reading advice from Bovina that she is sure her Scones are haunted by a first-century Jewish zombie.

[Smellyoldgit]

Eva wrote

i love green tea precisely because because it tastes like fresh grass clippings, that you rake after mowing...

Well, we have something important in common, then. That is why I have come to love it. It is the equivalent of the most wonderful hot, lazy, summer day imaginable, in a cup.

[Irreligious]

Does consuming grassy teas make one gassy?

[Eva]

**DISCLAIMER**

i like grassy tea, but i am not a cow.

Sure you are. You just gave the game away. Welcome to my world! Sacra vaca!

[Eva]

it does not, irre. and it did not turn me into a cow.