Tea

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make sure to brew a good cup of tea today, not just because it is a great refreshing beverage, today is international tea day.
I drink it all days everyday, my usual stock is Huangshan Maofeng - hairy tea from yellow mountain - But I like a cup of Lipton yellow label too - cheers !
 
I primarily drink huangshan maofeng since I live in Anhui province and that’s where Huangshan(yellow mountains) located, I sometimes go there(yellow mountain ) to buy directly from the tea farmers, as fresh as it can get.
Black tea(or red as it’s called here in China), that will say the (ā€usualā€ in west) longer oxidated tea leaves is said to have its origin here in my home province Anhui called Keemun/Qimen(from the county where it’s produced)
 
Huangshan Maofeng - hairy tea from yellow mountain
Is that the tea leaf can float straight in a glass?

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Gunpoweder green, very strong. It's magnificent. Keeps me off the sauce.
I'm quite partial to a normal tea for normal people too though
I am however going to get myself a set of utensils and some ceremonial grade matcha.
 
Sadly, I can no longer drink most teas... but when I did I drank
Genmaicha
Gun Powder Tea
Pu-erh
Tie Guan Yin
Occasionally Oolong

The tea I can drink these days is
Black Buckwheat
Bitter Buckwheat
Barley
 
Is that the tea leaf can float straight in a glass?

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blasphemously I drink my daily(at home) Huangshan Maofeng from a large Starbucks coffee mug so I not really put notice on how the leaves sink, but yes I’ve noticed this how tea leaves stand in a glass as late as yesterday at a large dinner party where tea was served in larger glass cups, but the leaves come to lay down after a short while in the cup…I didn’t ask what kind of green tea it was, but since it was a more high end restaurant and the most commonly revered tea here in Anhui is its local Huangshan Maofeng I believe that what’s was served, tasted same’ish as what I drink at home, but still with a somewhat exclusiveness to it…Perhaps because of the glass cup.
There is also a different feeling or perhaps hint of taste when drinking from pure clay cups, but those are mostly used when drinking tea in a more ceremonial setting, I like to collect those kind of clay cups and pots, and not use them for drinking or brewing, they are pure handcrafted work of art.
 
May I be forgiven for I have committed blasphemy,
I have always taken condensed milk with my tea.
With black tea it’s fine, Hong Kong(Guangdong) is famous for its tea(black) with milk, now popular all over China( amongst the younger generation)
 
Ah, I just noticed the flag displayed in your post, Malaysia? Same tea culture as in Hong Kong ?
Yup. Hong Kong they go to Char Chan Teng for the Lai Cha. In Malaysia they go to Mamak stall for the Teh Tarik(Pulled Tea). Although they also go to the traditional coffee shops for Teh Bing,which is similar to milk tea. But in Hong Kong,Malaysia and Taiwan we all like Bubble Tea. :D
 
Thanks for that tip, do you have some info specifics on it? I’ll check if they have a website
Sencha tongu is kind of pleasantly ā€˜grassy’. Gyokuro has a deep umami to it. Genmaicha has a slight smokiness to it thanks to the roasted brown rice.

What I love about Japanese teas is they are astringent like teas from other parts of the world. That’s just my taste.
 
With black tea it’s fine, Hong Kong(Guangdong) is famous for its tea(black) with milk, now popular all over China( amongst the younger generation)
In the USA, about 30 years ago i use to like the tea houses in Chinatown. But they started to change about 20 years ago. Last one i was in then was for a much younger crowd and the majority the tea was an herbal concoction, only had one plain green tea, and they were playing loud music . The place reminded me more if a Starbucks than a Chinese house. And today, they are virtually gone, and have been replaced by bubble tea places. I don’t go to those either.

But then , the last time i was in Beijing coffee places and bubble tea places were everywhere. Same for Taipei and Hong Kong. But then i may have missed the places for tea, had been diagnosed with gastritis by the time i got to Taipei and Hong Kong, so i was not looking for tea
 
In the USA, about 30 years ago i use to like the tea houses in Chinatown. But they started to change about 20 years ago. Last one i was in then was for a much younger crowd and the majority the tea was an herbal concoction, only had one plain green tea, and they were playing loud music . The place reminded me more if a Starbucks than a Chinese house. And today, they are virtually gone, and have been replaced by bubble tea places. I don’t go to those either.

But then , the last time i was in Beijing coffee places and bubble tea places were everywhere. Same for Taipei and Hong Kong. But then i may have missed the places for tea, had been diagnosed with gastritis by the time i got to Taipei and Hong Kong, so i was not looking for tea
Haha yes bubble tea, that’s the younger generations tea taste . Old style tea houses is quite a gone era, if one go to a good tea store(retailer) they might have a sitting area to enjoy traditional tea drinking, my taiji teacher in Dalian has such a place, a combination of tea store, jade jewelry store and mahjong recreation place.
 
Bubble tea is more akin to Coca Cola than it is to real ā€˜tea’. Is there any actual tea in bubble tea, I wonder? šŸ¤” But if you like high sugar beverages, then fill your boots.!
 
Had a great lunch with friends, then as some sort of synchronicity with this thread we went to a newly opened tea house, modernized with bubble teas but balanced with traditional teas. The guy who knew about this place ordered an iced cafe latte with ice cream for me since he know I also like coffee(but don’t know I take my coffee black) it went down anyways because it’s a rather hot day today, but the main drink we all had was Maofeng( in picture we had just finished one pot and waiting for another, drinking it from the small glass cups)
 

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