Lately I'm very interested in flavored tea. What happened to me? I have to say that I'm not interested in cheap teas just adding fruit flavors on low grade tea so that you cannot taste any tea at all. It is some extra flavor that enhances of experience of tea.
I came across a good genmaicha which uses really high quality sencha. Typically genmaicha needs high temperature to bring out the nutty aroma, but good grade sencha needs lower temperature. Their nature is opposite. Somehow during the processing the sencha seems to have received extra step that reduces typical high grade sencha taste. It doesn't retain the same look either. They don't fight, just harmonizing. I can guess what the process might have been.
Very faint green tea. what can we add to complement the flavor? It's much like a good cocktail, you don't kill the flavor of rum, but how can we bring it out better?
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A great thought, Taka. What can the ingredients do for eachother? Did you like the green pepper in the pumpkin soup?
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