Houji-Cha
(Roasted Tea)
Something New for the New Year
Type; A roasted Green
Price; No idea...a gift, and feel sortof guilty looking up the price.
Reasoning;
This tea is completely new, strange, and unique. All adjatives
usually meaning the same thing, all applying to this tea. It has
a roasted flavour completely of its own. If I hadn't looked it up
my first thought would have been that it was a chinese
green tea pan fried too long. It has a lower caffine level, which
is probably something we should all be watching, which makes
it a good evening tea. The taste acts similar to Pu-Erh in that both
have a earth taste, while Pu-Erh has a more chocolatey base, this tea
focuses on a much deeper roasted nut taste. Imagine a tea roasted with
chestnuts. One of my friends, who utterly hates the taste of Gen Maicha, dislikes
this tea as the roasting reminds her of the rice.
In other news, my wonderful flat mates bought me a tea set. So long slightly
tacky Elephant mug, hello strange foe wood decorated coffee pot looking tea pot.
Next on the list, new tea egg, one that could fit into the pot would be ideal.
In further other news, I was back in the states for christmas, and stumbled upon
a box of very very very old tea. Its maker was Express Tea, and it is an Orange Pekoe (of what???)
I really wonder how old it is, as there is not website on the box, and no one, litterally no one
in my family drinks tea than me.
-Tea Fanatic
