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Ech…bad milk will certainly wake you up.

Green Tea tea with milk and sugar? What kind of tea do you use that doesn’t get overpowered? Now I’m curious and I want to try this irreligious concoction!

@Madison- I totally agree… I can’t even see myself adding milk (I never add sweetener) to a green based chai.

Well here’s the thing, whenever I get tea from a street vendor or a corner store, I add milk and sugar. It’s my breakfast tea. Seeing as they use Lipton, black tea with milk and sugar is really weak and tasteless to me. If I think about it, the milk does overwhelm the green tea. The green tea they use is celestial. With the milk added the tea looks like I’m brown murky 2% milk. Now I can’t say why, but I just enjoy green tea with milk and sugar more than black. Now loose tea is a different story, I haven’t tried loose tea with milk and sugar yet, but I’ll have to experiment.

You are the 1st person I know that had pu erh as a kid.

Haha, that the tea of choice at yum chas. I was kind of stuck with it.

yum chas?

Apologies for the link, but I feel wikipedia could do a better job explaining it. The direct translation means “to drink tea.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_cha

OMG YES Ricky! Yes! m happy you liked it! This is awesome. We will eventually have to discuss everything. How cute was the sample box? And all the little baggies? :D

P.S. If you want my e-mail ever to chat it up, lemme know!

We need a Golden Moon Tea discussion thread or something for all the members who purchased the sampler. I might really to have to order a few more and give it out as gifts seeing as the presentation ( “cute” basket ll email you with my real address afterward.

This comment box is way too small. Incoming feature request.

^ Ha, seems I hit a bug and I can’t edit my comment. Jason you’ll have an incoming email.

Seeing as my last post was cut off, i"ll have to rewrite it from memory.
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I might really to have to order a few more and give it out as gifts seeing as the presentation ( “cute” basket = your words not mine :D) was so nice. As for the bags, little? They were huge! The size of two tea bags, they were like 1″×6″ (rough estimates). I had a hard time tearing it open, they didn’t have a little tear me thing anywhere. Inside was just enough tea for one cup =(.

As for my email. Seeing as this is a public comment, here’s a junk / temporary email address ( [email protected] ). I’ll email you with my real address afterward.
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My original comment was longer, but I can’t recall everything.

@Ricky, it is no bug- we could never edit our replies… <-NEW FEATURE REQUEST

Ricky, I cut mine open with scissors. :) My Organic Green had enough for two cups, it seemed like. Although I could be entirely wrong (I measured out one heaping teaspoon and there was enough for another teaspoon the same size).

I’ll be e-mailing you shortly!

Sorry, the bug was that my comment was cut off between ( “cute” basket & ll email.

STOP TORTURING ME!!!! I WANT MY SAMPLER!!!!

LOL, your missing out on our tea discussion. We’re starting without you.

I’m trying to consider it like a movie trailer. Coming soon to a teapot near you!

As a lifelong Pu-erh drinker, can you recommend a good one to start with? Would it be better to try something flavored or something straight up? I was looking at Rishi’s Blood Orange Pu-erh.

I think chocolate would be the ONLY way you’d get me to try it again:)

Well, the ones they serve at restaurants are watered down, that might be why I got use to it. I love this one, but it might be a bit strong from people starting. I would try it with a flavor, if you like blood orange by all means. The flavor definitely knocks off some of the pu-erh taste. GM has a pu-erh chai and I couldn’t really taste the pu-erh that much.

Tea cookies? I don’t think I’ve seen tea cake.

My dad used to always make tea cake when I was younger (not so much any more though). It was kind of like a combo of pancake (in texture and density) and sugar cookie (in taste). Good stuff. Not sure how traditional tea cake-y it was though.

I think I have a recipe for something called ‘tea cake’ in danish somewhere or other. I’ve never tried it myself and iirc it doesn’t actually involve tea at all. Maybe it goes really well with tea, I don’t know.

My dad’s wasn’t made with tea either, but I guess went really well with tea? Though we always had it with coffee…

Hmmm, I’ve been doing some poking around… here’s a recipe for “Russian Tea Cakes” that looks quite good.

http://www.joyofbaking.com/Mexican%20Wedding%20Cakes.html

I have to make some bread tonight so perhaps I’ll make some of these too.

All cake is tea cake. Cake and tea? Yes, please.

Umm, I’ll have to try some tea with some tea cookies. Umm, matcha green tea cookies =D Sounds delicious :D

Wow you’ve got a lot of balls! ;P

Seriously, I think 3-4 per 8oz of water is plenty strong – which would probably be about 5 per 12oz.

What can I say, I like my tea stronger =D

I think it’s a mark of how perverted I am that I was waiting for you to make a remark about liking your tea ‘stiff’. XD

How bout I like mine `thicker`? That’s what she said? Adagio good decision calling it pearls and not balls.

LOL, yes we come up with enough innuendo here on Steepster as it is! XD

6 infusions?! ricky you’re crazy. no tea can handle 6 infusions. 3 tops!!

I have a love/hate relationship with Foxtrot as well. I’m not a huge fan of chamomile, so I think that is the main factor…and that it tends to taste medicine-like at times.

It’s the peppermint for me. I enjoy it with hot chocolate, but not so sure bout tea. I think I’d enjoy it more as a morning tea than an evening one.