More tea

[petronia]

Mom/sis are back from China. I need to make another tea post. A picspam tea post.

(I'm worried about all this "new tea" since it's been in my grandmother's fridge and thus could be "new tea" from '04 for all we know. ^^; It's like beaujolais nouveau, you're not supposed to keep it.)

Actually... I really want more of this. XD It's just tea bags but it doesn't taste like jasmine green from China at all (I don't know if better-quality Indonesian jasmine green is along the same lines?), and I can't find it here. ...I should make a trade with an Indonesian flister. Anyone? WILL WRITE FOR TEA. XD;;;

Also pretty amazing: sholeh zard - and I note it's a no-brainer to make. However like any other saffron-containing recipe the saffron will set you back ten to fifteen bucks, if you don't happen to have some in the cupboard already.

P.S. I didn't even get told off for the ridiculously expensive matcha powder since my mother had matcha on JAL and really liked it! Man, service has gotten better, when I flew JAL two years ago I didn't get no matcha or plum wine.

Comments

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Hmm, maybe we can arrange a tea exchange? XD I took the wrong habit of drinking coffee, and should stop before it reaches addiction status. >_> Although you already know what I have and probably got what you wanted?

When we meet for the book (probably not this week), I have a DVD of the Making of Funky Forest, which I bought by mistake (see story on blog) that I can lend if interested. It's, like, unilingual Japanese. Quite interesting, despite.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Sure, sounds good to me! (Tea exchange and DVD both.) I probably shouldn't go anywhere for the next week anyway, this ankle isn't properly healed. ^^;

[astrael-nyx.livejournal.com]

This idea of a tea exchange is actually really great, not just for people in the same city/town. Tea doesn't spoil too badly and it can be sent easily in little packages or even little bags.

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

But more convenient if you do live in the same city. XD ... which leads me to ask whether you have interesting varieties of tea to trade? I may still have osmanthus tea from teh Guilin, and some sushi bar powdered tea from Genki Sushi.

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Hmm, small packages of dried herbs == screaming tear-me-open at border? XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ced has a point re: little bags of herbs being shipped out from Canada, though. XD; Then again I suppose the risk isn't too bad - most times the one looks nothing like the other.

(I've been meaning to ask you if you would like to get together sometime when you're back in Montreal. ^^ Don't know why I haven't asked to date, really.)