I like "Green."
Is that the Chinese tea that tastes like scotch somehow?
Yes it is, and that similarity to Scotch is because they both have an ingredient in common. Lapsang is tea that has been smoked over a pine wood fire, and Scotch is aged in bourbon barrels, which are made from oak planks that are scorched with fire before they're used.
Oh yeah i love this stuff. My old roommate used to get it and I haven’t had it for years but i was trying to remember the name.
I don't actually know what kind of tea they use, but in Morocco, they serve black tea with lots of mint and sugar, and it's one of the most enjoyable drinks I've had in my entire life. They stuff an entire fistful of fresh mint leaves into the pot with the black tea, and then do fancy pouring tricks to mix it with the sugar.
Despite it only containing three ingredients, I've never gotten it to taste quite the same on my own.
This is good info, it would explain why I'm not getting the same results. It never occurred to me that they weren't using black tea.
As far as the mint goes, I'm out of luck on that front, because the places I went to in Morocco were using local grown mint that I'm sure cannot be found outside of that region, at least not in a regular grocery store.
Have you ever had limon w nana? Not tea, but just as minty and just as delicious.
No, but I looked it up in it sounds amazing. I happen to have some lemonade in my fridge right now, I think I'm going to go buy some mint and try to make it!
One time I was at an event where they cheaped out on the catering, and the tea was just in plain white packaging printed MAINSTREAM TEA in big black letters. I thought it was the funniest goddamn thing.
Mint tea with pine nuts, I had some at a cafe in Tunisia and it was mind blowingly good
You toast them and then put them in your tea to eat while you sip, it's a really surprising flavor combination (at least to my murican palate) but it works so well together. Didn't realize I needed little cronchies with my morning tea
A man goes out into a small town called Hope in the Australian Outback. He enters a small cafe for some refreshment.
He looks at the menu and spots something rather odd, a drink called Koala Tea. He asks the waiter what it is and the waiter says "You won't drink it if you know, but it's delicious".
The man decides to go ahead and purchases the beverage. It arrives, he takes a sip and finds it to be delicious. He drinks the whole thing in seconds. He calls the waiter over again and says "I simply must know what this is". The waiter responds "Well, since you've already had it I shall tell you. It is made with Koala Bear droppings. We scoop them up from the ground and use them to make the tea. The digested Eucalyptus leaves give it its flavour".
The man, unperturbed by the information simply responds "Well, that's certainly odd but it tastes so good anyway that I can't help but not care". The waiter smiles and says "I shouldn't say this, but we're not even the best place that serves it. That's in the next town over". The man thanks the waiter, leaves the cafe, and sets off to the next town over.
After many miles, he finds the next town over, Mercy. He finds the only cafe in town and orders the drink again. The waiter brings over the drink and the man drinks it swiftly, before gagging and spitting out little pellets of dung from his mouth. "WAITER" he yells, "What have you put in my drink?!". The waiter says "That is what you ordered sir", to which the man responds "Well, the last place I had this did not have shit floating in it".
"Well, here it's served differently," says the waiter, "for the Koala Tea of Mercy is not strained".
I had to look up "quality of mercy" in order to understand your joke, and I'm still not sure I get it. Without knowing its from Shakespeare it sounds like word salad.
Yeah, sorry.
It's a literally just a Shakespeare play on words. There's nothing more to it than that. It's not supposed to make sense.
It needs a bit of foreknowledge but I like the joke lol
(Sometimes I'll even steep a packet of chai in a mug of hot cocoa but dont tell anyone)
Cannot stand that shit because it's a Russian folk remedy for damn near everything and I was forced to chug gallons of it every time I got a cold as a kid
Ditto. Also good for masking shroom taste on Trip Nights.
Came here to post this. Loose leaf green tea is great too, when it has that earthy taste it's so good.
My cousin sent me some top-shelf Japanese green tea for my birthday a few years back. Blew my mind; I had no idea green tea could taste like anything other than Lipton before that.
Yeah I was the same way when I had loose Japanese green tea, so good. There's Ito En which is bottled Japanese green tea, tastes fantastic if your grocery store carries it, or get it online.
Assam tea is great but its origin story with the British East India Company always makes me giggle.
Edit: as in it's the product of the company trying and failing (hard) to break the Qing monopoly on the tea trade. Nothing they did to the people of Assam in the meantime was funny.
