I used to buy this tea in the Asian grocery store long before I ever bought a tea online, before I even knew that green teas required lower temperature. I loved it then, so when I saw it on Amazon while I was putting together an order I picked one up. The Amazon price was rather high but I bought it anyway. I think I paid $6.50 or so. It sells in the Asian market for less but my Asian market has not had it in a while. My first attempt at this today was botched and tremendously over brewed so I dumped it and started again. This time I lowered the water temp to 160 degrees, dropped it to 2 tsp leaf, and lessened the steep time to 30 seconds. I got a nice tasting, somewhat floral cup with the right light yellow/green color, not the dark brew I got with 3 minutes and 3 tsp leaf. I don’t think I would buy this again at Amazon, but it is a good indication of how my tastes for tea have changed. I used to over brew this tea on purpose because I thought at the time that all tea deserved a dark color.
I brewed this one time in a 16oz Teavana Glass Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 2 tsp leaf and 160 degree water for 30 sec.
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I still have a little bit of mine. If you ever try cold-brewing, it’s makes a great iced tea.
I will have to try that.
I like finding new teas in asian supermarkets. I regularly buy the imperial choice cooked pu erh tea bags to drink at work.
Hahaha, I bought this at a Vietnamese market and oversteeped it to get that dark color you were talking about. :P
I still have a little bit of mine. If you ever try cold-brewing, it’s makes a great iced tea.
I will have to try that.
I like finding new teas in asian supermarkets. I regularly buy the imperial choice cooked pu erh tea bags to drink at work.
Hahaha, I bought this at a Vietnamese market and oversteeped it to get that dark color you were talking about. :P