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Does anyone like tea? I'm sort of a connoisseur of tea, I've been drinking it for years now and am a purist when it comes to what I drink, only loose leaf teas, and now-a-days I only buy them direct from china (I like chinese teas more than most other countries). If you like tea, post here which you like, what kinds of teas, etc... you could also check out my tea forum SereniTea if you want.

As a Brit with a "posh" accent (why oh why do people say it's posh? ) naturally, I indulge in cups of tea whenever it takes my fancy. (For the record, yes, I do like crumpets and crumpets are best served with tea!)

I don't have a tea strainer, so I'm somehwta limited by tea that comes in bags.
I do like my Earl Grey though, and that green tea stuff is quite nice.
When I fancy a change from the usual coffee however, I'll just grab myself a nice cup of English breakfast Tea


Was that a forum being advertised here I saw...?

Crumpets, no, crumpet - oh my, yes (joking - I love crumpets!)

I am a lover of tea. Very much so. My poison is Darjeeling (if I'm being specific, first flush super fine tippy golden flowery orange pekoe ). On an average day, my family will boil the kettle for tea once every 30-45 minutes, very rarely longer than an hour.

On the whole Chinese tea front, I'm sorry to tell you that green leaf tea is unprocessed, unfermented and therefore lacks complexity - in the *true* land of tea (India ) they see it as "invalid's tea"! Although I do like a cup of jasmine tea on occasion...

Oh - and perfect accompaniment for a cuppa, buttered crumpets not withstanding...? Marmite on buttered toast

Is green tea chinese??
Has anyone noticed how green tea tastes a bit like fish scales?
Very much an acquired taste... but the taste is now acquired

I like marmite, but not on toast...
Perfect accompaniment to a cuppa is, for me, some good old hobnobs

Farlsborough wrote:On the whole Chinese tea front, I'm sorry to tell you that green leaf tea is unprocessed, unfermented and therefore lacks complexity - in the *true* land of tea (India ) they see it as "invalid's tea"!

haha, complexity of India's tea! You make me laugh... you shouldn't be sorry to tell me about un-oxidized green teas, I already knew (plus, sometimes simple things are better than complex). Every country believes it's own things are better than others, and so it's of no surprise that in India Chinese greens are known as such, I'm sure the Chinese think that the bitter Indian teas are disgusting... although IF you enjoy black teas India IS a good country for teas (especialy assam, or a nice masala chai), but I don't use sugar or milk in my tea, and black tea is too hard to drink that way because of astringancy, so I stick to mostly Chinese greens like Bi Luo Chun, and (Qing Ming [First Flush]) Long Jing, although I DO like a good cuppa Mugicha (roasted barley tisane) which is traditionaly Japanese (boricha, if it's from Korea).

as to Ecko: you should def. try loose leaf if you enjoy tea bags, it's much more flavorful, only slightly messier to prepare.

All tea comes from the same plant (camellia sinensis), so no matter what country produces it, it can be black, green, white, pu-erh, wulong, and some other rare types of tea... it all has to do with the way they are processed, green teas are not allowed to oxidize, and so the polyphenals in the leaves don't cause them to become the copper color which is destinct to black (or as it's known in China "red") teas.

Because you are drinking bagged green tea, it's probably sencha fannings, which tend to be a bit "vegital", and if brewed wrong might taste a bit fishy (alot of the taste depends on the water you're using).

rabbit wrote:as to Ecko, you should def. try loose leaf if you enjoy tea bags, it's much more flavorful, only slightly messier to prepare.

I may do that...
Next time I have tea with Tim (he's the vicar, now don't y'all start up about clichés of drinking tea with vicars!!! ) I'll ask him where he got his strainer from.
And what that absolutely fantastic tea he drinks is

EckoZero wrote:Perfect accompaniment to a cuppa is, for me, some good old hobnobs

Being from the US, I don't think we have hobnobs, but I've heard many people talk of them, what exactly are they?

Hobnobs are oaty biscuits (cookies to you americans!).

Think crunchy, sexy flapjack. In a biscuit

Hate tea, can't stand it or coffee or most hot dinks. The occasional hot choccy is ok but I just don't like hot stuff and yes I tried iced tead and yuck. Do like crumpets and biscuits though.

..moroccon orange tea and green dragon green tea are my hot drinks of choice...and a nice strong black coffee with two spoons of brown sugar...gotta be brown...

When I'm working I live on coffee, taken just like abraxus (thank goodness I work in a hotel where brown sugar is in plentiful supply). When I'm relaxing though tea or hot chocolate would be my drink of choice.

...it just tastes of luxury to me, rich dark brown coffee, two lumps or teaspoons of brown sugar...aaaaaahhh....maybe a chocolate finger or two if im lucky....

No chocolate fingers for me, I just palm off one or more chocolates when I'm delivering them to the customers and then eat them in the comfort of the back room...being a magician is great! (No boss I haven't been stealing chocolates, look this hand is empty..and so is this one!)

i put the oooohhhhhh in typhoo

yeah im a typho man myself.

apparently is you drink enought tea it poisenous for you. but you have to drink an abnormaly large amount for a reasnoble period of time

mrfye

I only drink coffee. Not to keen on tea