While I generally like all sorts of tea (with no milk, no sugar or honey), there're favorites. Japanese green tea aside, I love how a smoky lapsang souchong reminds me of a peaty single malt whisky. The Chinese white tea is lovely. Those are delicate and refreshing.
I like tea in the afternoons. Loose leaf tea is alot more fragrant than teabags. But I'm so lazy to brew it in a teapot and to have to wash it. So at the office, I make do by using the tea ball. The last 2 months, due to extra exertion of brain power, I've been gravitating towards lighter teas. The white teas are perfect calming medium on days when I want to strangle people.
The tea leaves in the tins of bi luo chun (碧螺春) and bai hao yinzhen (白毫銀針) in the office drawers have been rapidly diminishing. I think it's an indicator of stress levels. I'm going to look for the assam white next. I want to see if the supposed malty flavors come out.
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You know there are those little Japanese empty tea bags too - you can just fill them yourself when you want one and tada - instant tea bag!
dawn: do not tell me these are available on the shelves of Mustafa.
Daiso sells them :) I've been drinking organic rooibos tea (I've got from Perth), ginger teaor other tea almost every morning @ work.
I am not an avid tea lover but I do need my daily dose of chinese tea. I am a lazybone, so I stick to affordable rickshaw's brand of "tie guan yin". Missed the 'gao shan cha" from Taiwan :-)
NTUC too I believe.
iceaster: oh! I've a pack of the gao shan cha frm Taiwan that I dunno wat to do with. I'm not fond of that! I could mail it to you!
dawn + coboypb: oooh. daiso and ntuc. thanks! i must take a look.
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