Thanks for the rec this is a delicious tea (tesane?)
Drinking Russian caravan by the potful with a bit of honey
Gotta love that lapsang souchong
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My new boost on these hot night sips is sweetening them with ‘tea-infused’ dulce de leche I made by putting a can of sweetened condensed milk into a mason jar and then putting some tea leaves into that mason jar and then putting that mason jar into a sous vide bath at 185f for 15 hours.
Turned out you can’t really taste the tea at all but it is still liquid caramel.
They also sold cans of dulce de leche, at the store, immediately next to the cans of condensed milk priced like exactly the same as the condensed milk. So. Well.
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I’ve been drinking some cheap bag teas. Sweet juice of the bag.
I went to Daiso a couple weeks ago and found they had some decaf green bags for $1.50. Me, a charlatan: Oh, from Kakegawa in Shizuoka? Impressive. Is there such a thing as good decaf tea, here, on this Earth? It is a question. Can’t be denied.
For 1 (one) 袋 I disrespected the wishes of my instruction and brewed at 80c for maybe 2min. It comes out tasting: not bad. It’s not super fresh, almost kinda got a genmaicha thing going on, but not the undrinkable liquid cardboard taste of like any given hotel bag. I have drinked 5/8 bags, 94 cents worth.
I go to Ikea all the time. I am an Ikea enthusiast. Like for many other things, I may be judged but cannot be stopped. Anyway I got this box of tea because it had the word “PINE” on it as a flavor. Also the box is a nice uncoated stock. This box cost $4 and there are 25 bags. Hard to argue with that. How would you even begin?
It doesn’t taste like pine at all. But it does taste fine. The leaves are intact and nice looking. Kinda tastes like that Earl Green stuff I mentioned up thread.
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It all began in 1993 when a few Taiwanese tea merchants and exporters attended the First International Conference of Puer Tea in Simao, a city nearby the famous Puer Township. Conference organizers were surprised that after the meeting, the Taiwanese team asked to visit Yiwu, located in the eastern area of Xishuangbanna close to Yunnan-Lao border. But the situation in Yiwu was bleak…
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Today I am drinking a nondescript builder’s grade Four Season/Sijichun steeped 3-4 times and collectively poured into a little black pitcher thing, which iirc is intended for coffee cream, and then poured into a matte/salt glazed cup that I got for $4 at Kroger.
Tastes good, tastes fine. I haven’t been drinking tea, because it keeps me awake at night. But today it is cloudy and I am bored and I promised to only drink one little black pitcher thing’s worth. The post-steep leaves smell great, mineral + cinnamon.
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victor i love your posts itt
thank you, my friend
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I rode my bike to The Teahouse to get a boba, for the first time since May, I think?
I will qualify that I did in fact have a boba like two weeks ago, though.
There was a slightly expensive drive-through + sit-down halal burger shop place a mile or two down the road, for a few years, always seemingly just barely holding on. Their burgers were pretty good. They were really good at first, but like most restaurants that are not lifelong passion projects they went downhill over time. Their fries were always whack, though. They fried them in olive oil, which they loudly boasted about on all their literature and collateral, big mistake friends, signed your own death warrant on that one. RIPs to them, they shut down sometime last year.
Building sat for a while and then the virus, etc., hadn’t been driving around over there or eating deadly unclean outside food, etc. But a couple months ago My Wife mentioned that she noticed someone was moving in and it was going to be a Chinese place. Well that place opened up and turns out it is a drive through dumpling + bun house. Super tight. We went and it also turns out (after noticing the logo seemed familiar, 
) that it’s a second location of, I think the last place we ate in Chinatown before lockdown?, ‘health’ + ‘traditional breakfast’ + ~fashionably designed menus eatery Bao Shi Yi.
Anyways you can get you one of them long churro looking donut things (they don’t have the porridge stuff yet at the close drivethrough location), or some bbq buns, and some tiger sugar boba, right from the comfort of your automobile.
We didn’t go inside this is a picture from them.
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Yeah I’d hang out there. Will add it to bookmarks.
Victor why do black teas and chai give me migranes but I can drink coffee and coke all day? Green tea is also fine.
Unrelated I had to give up Mugi (my favorite conbini tea) because it was related to my wheat allergy.
I dunno. My condolences on your shrinking hot-brown possibility-space, though.
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Sensitivity to tannins?
Do you get headaches from red wine as well?
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I don’t drink but hmm!
I thought coffee had tannins
Maybe its just a much lower amount of tannins to black tea (esp to oversteeped black tea)
Tulpa my partner will decaffeinate tea by steeping it for 30 seconds and then draining that and every time they do i think of you, does this sound like a sufficient decaffeination protocol to ya
it’s worth doing a quick hot water rinse to get rid of some off flavors in certain teas, and it reduces the tannin content of a tea. I’m not sure if it takes caffeine out but I wouldn’t be too concerned about the caffeine content, anyway. Not even of black tea. We use much less tea leaves in a cup of tea than ground coffee beans in a cup of coffee. Unless your partner is drinking undiluted from a samovar, they won’t be getting even a half cup of coffee’s worth of caffeine.
Edit: I looked it up and the 30 second steep does not remove caffeine from tea. limit steeping time, quantity of leaves, and water temperature to reduce caffeine content in a cup
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i found an electric kettle in the trash with a sticky note that said
THIS
WORKS
on it, and surprising nobody it does still work, so i washed it and brought it into my little office basement and now i’m drinking way to much cheap peppermint and licorice tea, AMA
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The leaf spirit has smiled upon you today, remember its kindness.
I went to the grocery store earlier because they send me coupons in the mail and this week’s was a free 6 pack of their very good bakery cookies. I got these spice/gingerbread ones that look to have big chunks of candied ginger in them.
I also ended up buying like fifty bucks worth of shit, as they intended, including some relatively fresh sencha from Rishi. Drinking it now, brewed at 165F for 1.5min. Tastes good to me.
I had been mixing my leftover Japanese green tea leaf into a single container but that stuff is like a year+ old now, I don’t drink it often enough, not disgusting but def. non-optimal if only there was a solut…
interesting.
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