Pu-er Tea

Currently I am drinking Pu-er Tea everyday as this is the tea that my parents offer me daily
I also reading a book about tea….it is a very interesting book and include all the functions and things that different kinds of tea could offer. I will write more later on.
After reading about Pu-er Tea, I just realised that tea do have nutrition values

for example, Pu-er Tea contain vitamin B1, B2, C and E and β Carotene

Pu-er tea / Camellia sinensis var. assamica
- black tea
- good for preventing high blood pressure and cancer and constipation
-  reduce cholesterol
- good for ladies who have their legs and hands cold all the time
- increase metabolic rate

And I do think that after drinking for awhile, it does work…
at least reducing cholesterol and break down fat….haa haa

New Tea- Apple

Have been trying out new tea…but let me write about the tea that I just bought yesterday

   

 

 What attracts me most about this tea is

 

1st - the package
I just fell in love with the packagings
I want to buy all of them….this one the tea packs in a test tube…feels so cool, modern, trendy and simple

2nd - the “Tea biscuit”
I don’t know the right term for it
I usually see this if the tea is chinese tea..that’s the way how they sell tea.
but I rarely see tea packages like that..it only packages like that in chinese restaurant only I guess..

This tea is from Japan
It is black tea with apple flavor
Funny enough…it tastes like not apple but cinnamon and reminds me about Licorice Tea…
Not bad..

The only thing I don’t like about it is the flower…haa haa
http://www.kktowa.co.jp/product.html

Tea is back on track!

 

Halo!
I guess it took me a long to come back…
Shouldn’t say I will back soon…
Anyway…I tried to get online and type more before, but April was the period of finals…then moving house, May was a period of moving and bringing my family around the country.. and it was MY CONVOCATION.MY BIG TIME..
then June I moved back to my parents’ place…and start looking for jobs…
so I was basically travel back and forth for the last 60 days…

So now I settle down and for sure I am not onl doing job hunting but also tea hunting…
now back on track and write more about tea..

Sorry for people who have been waiting..

Didn’t update for the last two weeks not because I didn’t try any tea
but it is final and final papers period
so don’t have time to update the blog

but i will up again after tuesday

Blackcurrant tea

 

The newest tea that I try is the Blackcurrant tea from Stash herbal samplers
(Yes, still the herbal tea, you can still how long does it take me to finish and try all the samplers in that box)

I think after trying so many teas that have berries flavor (except strawberry and blueberry)
I don’t think I am really into the berry types tea now
To me
is too sour
(I don’t know probably just me coz my friend said it is sweet enough…)

Anyway
I just found that it is good to have blackcurrant though
as it does good to health
may be I should try the tea again or just simply eat blackcurrant

Blackcurrant is famous containing high level of Vitamins C
Vitamins C cannot be produced by the body
Vitamins C is important to skin, teeth, ligaments, bones, tendons and cartilage…

Blackcurrant Foundation: http://www.blackcurrantfoundation.co.uk/info.aspx?Id=223
Stash Blackcurrant Tea: http://shopstashtea.com/030048.html

Tea quote

Danson\’s song in piano version

“If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.”
William Gladstone

Enjoy my favorite music,  picture and the quote.

Do you know - Peppermint Tea

The Young prince and the young princess

I was drinking Peppermint Tea last time when I was having a cold..

the notes that I have found have something on peppermint tea as well

Eases acidity and relaxes spasmodi pain in upper digestive system

aid body in fighting infections

formula for onset of cold

removal of toxins from tissues

T42

I always stopped by Esquire
But the drink I order most of the time is not coffee but tea

I love the Lemon & Honey Green Tea
No matter which brand….

I like this one
Probably because the lemon and honey really stand out

I was reading the label on the bottle
just realised that this brand has been brewing tea for 70 years!!! (Wow!)

Still
I think it is little bit too sweet when compare with Lipton
probably they use real sugar cane?!

http://www.cfcnda.com/drinkt42/index.html

 

POM tea

Pomegranate Peach Passion White Tea

I wanted to try this tea for a long time
but th eprice of it is sooo high (I wonder why it costs so much for a cup of tea)

It says in the back that it uses whole tea leaf
and 4mg caffeine

I think probably because the popularity of pomegranate now
everything or every tea brand usePomegranate…

Anyway my perosnal opinion:

Peach flavor is so strong which is nice because lots of people do not like the taste of pomegranate

but
The whole experience of this tea is tooooooo sweet

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Peppermint tea

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I guess summer soon arrives
First time to leave school when there is still sunlight there

I had a cup of Peppermint tea from Stash today
So nice
The flavour of peppermint is really strong

Felt so relaxing have the peppermint while enjoying the sunset, the music and the picture above

It is not my first time to try peppermint tea
The first time I tried it was at a friend’s house
we had peppermint tea for afternoon tea

My afternoon tea usually takes place at some hotels
I love going high tea
The tea that i usually order is Earl Grey
But I guess peppermint tea would be another choose for me now

This is what my friend made for afternoon tea and serve with peppermint tea

Do you know - Jasmine Tea

Remembered last time I introduced the new tea, Dragon Pearl Jasmine tea that I tried?

I am now actually start packing my stuff in the house
as I am going to move to new place at the end of this month
and I found my note book somewhere that have notes about tea (which probably I wrote it two years ago, just information that I found online and wrote it in papers….)

I found the notes about  Jasmine tea  and its functions to the body

it could

- enhance attetnion/alert
- has a function to calm people’s emotion down
-  Good for people who suffer from constipation, depresion, brochitis

Hm…interesting….

Tea egg

So last weeknd was the long weekend
I was invited to a dinner from one of my friends
I found that not only Taiwanese people would like to serve the following dish
My friend from China always like to serve this dish as well

What dish?
Tea egg

My friend made it as a starter or a salad dish as pics showed above

Tea egg is kind of a snack for Chinese/Taiwanese or Hong Kong people

You may see why I would write Tea egg as today’s entry
coz obviously
it relates to tea

 

The eggs are boiled into this tea liquid
The tea that used usually black tea
or Pu-erh tea
or tea that have high in dar-brown tannins
It not only gives the taste but the color of it

green tea will be too bitter for it

It is salty
and
soy sauce or Chinese five-spice power are added into it for flavour
Yummy! 

Receipe: http://coffeeworks.blogs.com/coffee_and_tea/2005/07/tea_eggs_a_cut_.html

Organic Scottish breakfast tea

The other tea that I bought was Organic Scottish Breakfast Tea
The reason I bought this is to see whether this type of breakfast tea is better than Stash/Twining

 

Different brands of Breakfast tea

	Twining	Stash	Revolution
Ingredients	-          Kenyan -          Assam	-          Ceylon Tea (Sri Lanka) -          Malty Assam -          Smooth Nilgiri -          Full bodied Keemun	-   Organic Assam -  Organic China Keemun -  Organic Nilgiri Dunsandale - (all full bodied)

I guess after looking at the chart
you may know which one I would prefer
especially now I love organic stuff
so I guess this brand more 

The scottish breakfast tea is really fresh
the flavour does stand out
I like it after drinking
my mouth doesn’t have the tea staying inside
you know what I mean
sometimes after drinking a cup of tea
the tea  still staying inside your mouth
it feels kind of dry or there is soemthing in the mouth just don’t feel comfortable
it probably because of the little portion of milk that I added
but still
this one didn’t happen to me even though I added milk into it

This brand is good however the price is also “too good”
it is the most expensive out of these 3 brands

oh well
meanwhile I do need a good and  strong black tea for me while I am rushing and fighting the last two weeks of classes

and good that this tea just reduced the price at the right time

but I guess I should drink it slowly

Another organic…

Organic White Chai Tea

I bought these two tea from Revolution yesterday
Reasons to buy it because I wanna try it for so long
The package is so nice
I love white color and it gives a sense of cleanness
but too expensive
yesterdays it was about 50% sale @ Safeway….so I bought two of them

Last night
I tried the organic white chai tea first

The aroma of the chai tea came out immed. after I opened the tin lid
The flavour of the spices really stands out
not too strong
and
it is fresh

Info. about white tea:

white tea has limited scale from China and India
it is scarer than traditional tea
therefore it is more expensive

Health benefits:
Less caffeine
more active cancer-fighting antioxidant than green tea

The other type of white tea I tried was white peony
No wonder it was at a higher class and I paid more last time I visited a tea room
no that I only in love with organic things but also white tea now

http://coffeetea.about.com/od/typesoftea/a/whitetea.htm

Flower tea

Osmanthus fragrans Ti Kuan Yin Tea

Osmanthus fragrans (sweet olive) is a flower and

there are four types of Osmanthus fragrans

it is a a type of Scented Tea or Chinese Flower tea

Scented Tea or Flower tea means  dried flowers are used to make tea,
green tea and black tea can be the base and mix with scent of flowers

Health Benefits of sweet olive:

- Good for Spleen, and quite nutritious
- Mild the condition of gastroptosia and gastric ulcer

This tea is actually from my parents
My mother said the tea leaves are not actually that good
so she didn’t think the tea will taste good
however
I made a cup of tea today and the sweet olive flowers greeted me with a wonderful aroma
smell good and strong flavor of the flower
i love sweet olive!!

 probably I am still a beginner and couldn’t distinguish differences between good tea leaves vs. bad tea leaves
but the flavor of the flowers win my heart

A video about scented tea, check it out

http://www.sevencups.com/2007/11/16/scented-tea/