Thread: Tea

Just yesterday my wife and I went into Chinatown in Bangkok to visit a couple of temples. While walking through Chinatown we past a little shop selling different types of Chinese tea. It was the type of place where you buy the tea by weight and not in tins. I bought 200g of tea that looks like Oolong tea. The leaves were in little balls. It tastes similar to an Oolong tea I already have but the flavor is so much more intense, the colour is lighter and it doesn't have a hint of bitterness.
And on top of all this it only cost about a quater of the price of a good tin of tea.

I'm going to have to convince my wife that we should visit that temple again.

That is called a pearl tea. It's either a black or an oolong.
(I suppose they could do pearls with other teas, but I've only ever seen it with blacks and oolongs)

Teavana has one called "black dragon pearl" that has a very thick texture to it. It's along the lines of guinness beer or something. Good stuff.

For a truly great cuppa, I usually reach for a loose tea and a tea ball, or just brew it in a pot. I'm pretty easy on the flavours from strong lapsang to delicate whites, but never had a taste for rooibos.

One of my favourites is a green-lemongrass-ginger-chamomile blend that's spicy for the winter and fresh for the summer. Green-jasmine, japanese senchas and earl grey are fantastic too.

We recently had a TeaVana store open at the mall closest to me. The wife bought me a nice container about 3/4 full of some very nice green tea. I love the look of several of their cast iron teapots. I usually have a cup of Lipton green tea (orange & passionfruit variety) in the afternoon at work. My sensei has a Cuisinart teapot at the dojo, which usually has some variety of green tea in it in the evenings.

Jasmine, Oolong, Darjeeling, Roobios, Russian Black Caravan tea, Chai, green tea, herb tea's, honey, milk and fruit added to the tea... Come to think of it, I don't think that I have come across any tea that I don't like.

Ladies and gentlemen:

As an Assyrian, I grew up on black tea prepared in a samovar. We had tea all day. Now, I usually have two cups of coffee in the morning. The rest of the day it's all tea. The blends I use are blends popular in the Middle East.

My favorites are too numerous to mention. Some of the top favorites, aside for the variety of Assyrian-style, Iranian-style and Russian-style teas, include top Darjeelings.

And, yes, I do agree that a cup or two of tea in the early afternoon is one of life's pleasures.

Regards,

Obie
obieyadgar.com

Loose leaf Darjeeling (Steinthal) is by far my favorite. But at $40 for 250 grams I limit myself. I will drink green teas, but don't find the taste particularly appealing. I drink a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, but switch to tea later in the day.

Adagio Teas:

• Golden Monkey
• Keemun Encore
• Lapsang Souchong
• Irish Breakfast

I work in a cafe and we just switched from starbucks products to peets coffee and tea. Im going through major iced Tazo Zen withdraw

Tea.... it all depends on when and where.

Stuck in a snow drift up near the front range "Lapsang souchong"

After a duck or pork dinner in a decent Chinese resteraunt
or Dim Sum - "PU-ERH" -which sadly has suffered
speculation and much hype making the price hard to tolerate.

Afternoon in a meditative mood a good green tea.

Back porch with a friend: Lipton, with sugar, ice and lemon.