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Across the street from my office is a chinese tea shop. I found myself wanting some tea today and decided to go in for a look. I came out with a bag of whole-leaf green that was ~$15 for .4KG. Alarmingly, this was by no means the best or most expensive tea in the shop.
Threw out the water in the pot and put in bottled water, heated it up and poured myself a cup. Quite delightful. Much more full flavour than tea in packets and a lot less bitter though I steeped it quite a while longer.
I've been trying to consume less. particularly in terms of purchases from large multi-national corporations. It seems like the way I can do the most harm to the american right wing.
Not that tea isn't generally grown by large multinational corporations. Far from it, they were some of the first too-powerful multinational corporations. However, the amount I paid for tea represents several hundred cups of tea, and when that's compared with the cost of say coca cola (~$6 for a flat of 24) the tea comes out far far cheaper.
Not to mention, green tea, being a strong anti-oxident is rather good for you as opposed to coca cola, which mostly corn syrup. Green tea also contains less caffeine than cola. Although it's still rather a lot to me.
I've been drinking almost entirely water and carbonated water the past two months, but I've been growing to appreciate truly good tea a lot more lately too.
Maybe one of these days I'll try some of the really expensive tea but for now, I think I'm fine with this one, a lower mid-range variety.
Threw out the water in the pot and put in bottled water, heated it up and poured myself a cup. Quite delightful. Much more full flavour than tea in packets and a lot less bitter though I steeped it quite a while longer.
I've been trying to consume less. particularly in terms of purchases from large multi-national corporations. It seems like the way I can do the most harm to the american right wing.
Not that tea isn't generally grown by large multinational corporations. Far from it, they were some of the first too-powerful multinational corporations. However, the amount I paid for tea represents several hundred cups of tea, and when that's compared with the cost of say coca cola (~$6 for a flat of 24) the tea comes out far far cheaper.
Not to mention, green tea, being a strong anti-oxident is rather good for you as opposed to coca cola, which mostly corn syrup. Green tea also contains less caffeine than cola. Although it's still rather a lot to me.
I've been drinking almost entirely water and carbonated water the past two months, but I've been growing to appreciate truly good tea a lot more lately too.
Maybe one of these days I'll try some of the really expensive tea but for now, I think I'm fine with this one, a lower mid-range variety.
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Date: 2006-08-18 06:34 am (UTC)If green tea has too much caffeine, you might want to try white tea. It has about 1/2 the caffeine of green. It's supposed to have even more antioxidants too.
I prefer "scented" teas, such as jasmine or Earl Grey. My favorite is a black tea flavored with rose petals.