Experience of going to Japantown where I got this tea can be found in my blog, here: http://sanfrantea.teatra.de/2012/05/12/on-a-quest-for-tea-in-japantown/
This genmaicha has more toasted rice than some other brands I have, but I really don’t mind. I got the loose leaf version and it was certainly reasonably priced at $5.00 a bag. I think the green tea here is a bancha. Genmaicha was one of the first Japanese teas I really got into. This has a lovely popcorn aroma and a nice nutty flavor with only a trace of bitterness. A great tea to pair with food, or for the evening time when you don’t want a lot of caffeine.
A very good, every day genmaicha!
Preparation
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Loved looking at Japantown. Have not been there in ages! Always looked like a ghost town in some ways…or a prop for taking photos. Glad to see you shopping there, will give me some ideas for when I visit my son next time!
It is definitely a fun place to go shopping..
In any case I try to go there sometimes in hopes they will stay afloat
It’s kinda out of the way from where people usually gather…looks like big blocks of cement. Or like cement ice cubes stacked around with a huge space pagoda. As I remember every time I’ve driven past it anyway. I’ve only been there a couple of times on foot.
Amy, I hope you don’t mind, but Paul Gilbert is one of my favorite guitarists, his wife Emi is Japanese. She actually has a few vids on YouTube-one of which is a piano piece she wrote after the Catastrophe in Japan last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJHHtiIqMg
The Japanese people love’ em. Here’s one of my favorite Mr Big tunes sort of relating to your blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va3PrhB1-NI
All that 80’s hair…hahaha….awesome. :))
p.s. Because of your name, I was (mistakenly) under the impression that you were Asian (Sandra Oh). Not to mention your love of tea. Always nice to put a face with a name though (and proves I suck at online impressions, lol).
Loved looking at Japantown. Have not been there in ages! Always looked like a ghost town in some ways…or a prop for taking photos. Glad to see you shopping there, will give me some ideas for when I visit my son next time!
It is definitely a fun place to go shopping..
In any case I try to go there sometimes in hopes they will stay afloat
I would <3 to shop in Japantown. Are times really that tough in Japantown Amy?
Maybe I shouldn’t have made it sound so pathetic? :)
It’s kinda out of the way from where people usually gather…looks like big blocks of cement. Or like cement ice cubes stacked around with a huge space pagoda. As I remember every time I’ve driven past it anyway. I’ve only been there a couple of times on foot.
Amy, I hope you don’t mind, but Paul Gilbert is one of my favorite guitarists, his wife Emi is Japanese. She actually has a few vids on YouTube-one of which is a piano piece she wrote after the Catastrophe in Japan last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJHHtiIqMg
The Japanese people love’ em. Here’s one of my favorite Mr Big tunes sort of relating to your blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va3PrhB1-NI
All that 80’s hair…hahaha….awesome. :))
Not pathetic and you looked like you were having a good time.
Oh, and I do like this tea, but I had the teabags.
Another great job … keep em coming : )
p.s. Because of your name, I was (mistakenly) under the impression that you were Asian (Sandra Oh). Not to mention your love of tea. Always nice to put a face with a name though (and proves I suck at online impressions, lol).
No, not Asian. :) Basically it’s a pseudonym of sorts…
Pseudonyms can be so mysterious. WHAA! You look Asian to me!