oh I get mine from a chinese neighborhood shop that's walking distance from my work. it's like 500 tea bags for five dollars. it rules.

tea: yes

wine: eh

DON'T DO THIS ON A LIVE PLANT!!!

i pour tea on plant for fun

leaf water

a shadow of its former self

excellent tea!

bo ba

dog living dangerously

I steep 3 minutes but that's because I like it strong. I can't imagine who goes for 5

thanks!

honestly, type doesn’t really factor in to quality. bagged teas are usually pretty bad. loose leaf is usually decent to great

thanks for this, i love green tea but not knowing what ones are good stops me from really getting into it

so i only made 1 cup of rice at a time which is less than 15mins in my rice cooker and used a heaping tsp of sencha. it was mild and grassy but i can see how leaving it in longer would overbrew it

oh how'd the sencha rice turn out that sounds easy and intriguing but also like it might overbrew the tea

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agree!

oolong is pretty cool imo

i got to eat a few tea-flavoured ice creams too

things i've cooked with tea:

rice plus sencha in the rice cooker

matcha biscotti

earl grey cupcakes

ochazuke

I never use sugar lol just milk if it’s a tea that wants milk

for some reason i feel like milk and sugar ought to be a package deal. black tea is fine, and tea with milk and sugar is good too, but tea with just one or the other always strikes me as odd

completely unrelated: the true anti-imperialist practice is to take the colonizer's method of tea preparation and make it better. masala chai for life~

there's tea that needs milk and tea better without milk and I like the latter better lol

my favourite oolong is tieguanyin (the one that's a bit closer to green tea) but my fav hot tea is actually jasmine tea. i love the smell!!

deliciose