Green Tea Identification

On 2006-02-02 00:11:35 -0800, "Jason F in Los Angeles"
<jason.fasi@> said:

> Gunpowder is pushed far too heavily in stores and cafés, and usually
> it's not so great. It's usually the base of "moroccan mint" style teas,
> which aren't so great either, IMHO. I think mint goes better with
> sencha, personally.
>
> I always recommend bu luo chun and mao feng as good vegetal green teas,
> but for something sweeter you might try an Indian white tea
> (darjeeling, assam, or ceylon "silver tips" style teas, teajunky.com
> has them cheap!)

Yes, I also bought some stuff marked as "Bi Lo Chun" although it
probably wasn't as it was only 14USD/pound. It's tastes pretty vegetal
to me, but I prefer this sencha.

-S.

S. Chancellor wrote:
> Yes, I also bought some stuff marked as "Bi Lo Chun" although it
> probably wasn't as it was only 14USD/pound. It's tastes pretty vegetal
> to me, but I prefer this sencha.

I prefer Sencha as well to almost all other green teas. I have tried
almost all of them and no matter what I come back to a good quality
sencha every time. I buy three main ones: For teabag form, I go with
Shirakiku Brand sen-cha (Like $2 at local asian mart and good), and
loose I currently am stuck on an organic strawberry sencha (I think it
may be Numi brand) that is just sencha tea with dehydrated bits of
strawberry mixed in, or I go for just a solid quality plain sencha. (I
look for freshness, smell, and leaf quality) Pretty soon you will
narrow down which sencha's you like and those you don't. There is a
vide variety all under the name "sencha."

- Dominic
Drinking: Spring white mixed with Dimbula ceylon