When i go to a oriental restaurant there green tea is great, what i make at home not so good. How do they do it. is it a green tea that i can buy?
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Green Tea Help
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What is the water temp you are using to brew? How long you brewing for?
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Just hot water, never checked the temp. Is there a certain brand.
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water temp should be no more than 150-160F, in my experience. Brewing time around 2-3 minutes max.
My favorite brand is Mighty Leaf...
http://www.mightyleaf.ca/en/tea
Depends on tea. There are different types of green tea. Not just one. If it's Chinese restaurant it's most likely Jasmine tea. The brewing time is 2-3min. If you brew it longer it will not taste good.
Most Japanese teas such as "sencha" are brewed for 60sec. Some are brewed for 30sec. You have to check the packet. My favourite is "Matcha" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha
It's green tea powder and it's easy to brew, but you have to watch the temp and amount of tea you use.
Most Japanese teas such as "sencha" are brewed for 60sec. Some are brewed for 30sec. You have to check the packet. My favourite is "Matcha" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha
It's green tea powder and it's easy to brew, but you have to watch the temp and amount of tea you use.
Im very parital to the dragon green jasmine pearls. Rishi is my favorite that Ive tried. Brewing at 185 for 2-3 minutes is perfect for me. And the leaves can be steeped about 3 times. I always get a much better cupotea out of loose leaf tea, rather than bagged. My local whole foods has a great selection with someone on hand that always gives good advice.
Every asian place I go to seems to pour boiling hot water into a cold teapot, then lets the leaves sit in there for the duration of the day. Tea there usually tastes like cardboard to me. At home, I'm partial to Gunpowder tea. Smoky like a good scotch!
I agree, the Gunpowder tea, (mine is usually Imperial Gunpowder from Taylors of Harrogate) is the best. Warm teapot, not boiling water just under boiling, 2.5 - 3 miniutes
For Green tea, I usually buy the Sencha Shizuoka from Infusions of Tea. They have a shop in San Diego, but also ship it too. It's a great tea. Also, their Confucious tea is my favorite from them.
I've also bought the Gunpowder from another place in SD, called Same Old Grind. It was back when I first started with loose leafs, and I remember it being good. I hope to go back and buy some soon to retry it now that I have a better feel for different teas.
I've also bought the Gunpowder from another place in SD, called Same Old Grind. It was back when I first started with loose leafs, and I remember it being good. I hope to go back and buy some soon to retry it now that I have a better feel for different teas.
[thread=111520]GOTD- Green of the Day[/thread] will give you lots more ideas about what green teas we drink around here.
I am really curious about this gunpowder green tea. I really want to try it, does anyone know a place that will do a few samples?
Adagio and Upton Teas have samples- most places should. If you don't find anything, drop me a PM and I'll mail you a couple.
Is it rude to just ask for hot water and bring your own jasmine pearls?
I do know someone who constantly has a twinning bags of tea around
Also remember that it's perfectly okay to re-use the green tea leaves. In fact I've found it's often better a pot or two down the road (small pots of 1-2 cups). YMMV with that though. You'll just need to play around with steeping times to get what works best.
While living in Japan I found most people make green tea by using a hot pot to keep water around 90 Celcius (near boiling) and running the water through a screen with leaves in it. The leaves almost never soaked in the water for long, a few minutes at most. Letting the leaves soak for longer can lead to some very off-putting flavors.
Also be careful of the restaurants that use barely tea instead of green tea. There's a restaurant near me that does this and other customers don't bother to ask why it tastes different, or they just don't know.
While living in Japan I found most people make green tea by using a hot pot to keep water around 90 Celcius (near boiling) and running the water through a screen with leaves in it. The leaves almost never soaked in the water for long, a few minutes at most. Letting the leaves soak for longer can lead to some very off-putting flavors.
Also be careful of the restaurants that use barely tea instead of green tea. There's a restaurant near me that does this and other customers don't bother to ask why it tastes different, or they just don't know.
