Hype helps tea taste

About five years ago I bought a Japanese tea called Yabukita in a
commercial tin at a Korean store and not cheap $10/100g. I couldn't
find anything on it using the popular web search engine of the time and
thought the taste average but not good. I checked a couple of days ago
and all the specialty Japanese tea websites are goo-goo-gah-gah about
it and more expensive than I paid. I tried it again and damn if it
wasn't one of the best Japanese greens I've had in a long time. I
tried multiple infusions and the thing I noted the leaf was actually
disintegrating each time and I hadn't seen that in any other tea. It
made a cloudy brew but tasty green cup which was more pungent than
floral after the first. Now I have to limit myself till I can find
more on the shelves. It's been awhile since I've been to that Korean
store.

Jim

PS Maybe it was longer than five years because the first post about it
is June 23 1999 and I don't remember seeing it with DejaVu.

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I tried it again and damn if it
> wasn't one of the best Japanese greens I've had in a long time. I
> tried multiple infusions and the thing I noted the leaf was actually
> disintegrating each time and I hadn't seen that in any other tea. It
> made a cloudy brew but tasty green cup which was more pungent than
> floral after the first. Now I have to limit myself till I can find
> more on the shelves. It's been awhile since I've been to that Korean
> store.
>
> Jim
>
> PS Maybe it was longer than five years because the first post about it
> is June 23 1999 and I don't remember seeing it with DejaVu.
>

I also find that my taste can change over time sometimes. I retry things
(excepts Durien and tripe) every once in a while to see if my taste has
changed enough to let me like it. That happened with avocado...used to hate
it and now I like it.

Melinda

Melinda wrote:
> I also find that my taste can change over time sometimes. I retry things
> (excepts Durien and tripe) every once in a while to see if my taste has
> changed enough to let me like it. That happened with avocado...used to hate
> it and now I like it.
>
> Melinda

Aha! another person who fell for the "Oh, Durian fruit is the king of
fruits" B.S. I've never offended my senses in total so badly as my
attempts to put down some Durian. For the life of me I can't see
anybody enjoying this, if I lived to be 1,000 years old it could never
dull my tastebuds and nose enough to like it. And even all the hype in
the world didn't help in this case. :)

- Dominic

Melinda wrote:
> I also find that my taste can change over time sometimes. I retry things
> (excepts Durien and tripe)

, my taste too changes all the time but I guess I'll be always
chasing the "King of fruit" whenever I'm in SE-Asia.
I was thrown out of a hotel once in Singapur - because I didn't take
those warnings serious but continued to smuggle Ds in my backpack into
my room, where the "aroma" probably made that room uninhabitable for
days (or weeks).
Ever tried those wild grown jungle Durians in Malaysia (Tanah Rata /
Cameron Highlands) or the X24 variety ?
Stuff to kill for !

There's a corner store in Singapur's Chinatown Mall, where at times
I've seen up to 5 different varieties. You don't see that many
foreigners there, but sometimes busloads of chinese sitting on benches
and happily slurping away.

Karsten / Darjeeling