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Quote:The positive effects are not as consistent or proven in populations in the West, but dramatically positive in populations in the East, esp in Japan, Taiwan, China and Singapore. I think besides genetics and life and diet styles, one strong reason is the prevalent poor quality of tea being drunk in the West. I hope I am not offending anyone here, but that is a description of the market condition that people like yourself, who are aware of the dramatic difference, should be saving yourselves from, if not also helping the others around you.
Indeed, and no offense taken. I’m often rather botheredthat I have to search for anything “half” decent – which here is broken leaves. Most of it is exposure. I don’t think my countrymen are that dumb, but when you grow up equating tea with tea dust, it takes a bit to adjust to the full leaf thing. Having been raised not only on sweetened tea-dust water, but sweatened store-brand tea-dust water, it never occurred to me until recently that leaves are supposed to be full – “broken” leaves where, I thought, the better quality stuff, and tea dust the norm.
Even my local dim-sum style place (sorta; can’t claim it’s anything like a real dim sum place but it’s between the usual takeout place and the Japanese grills we have here) serves and sells broken tea (though I think their pu-erh might be full).
As for alzheimer’s, I don’t believe anyone in my family has suffered it (we got our curse in the form of myotonic muscular dystrophy) but sometimes I feel it hovering over my shoulder like a grim spectre of the future to come. Or I could just be paranoid.
M.
Same; it’s just not good enough anymore. It also has quite a few twigs and is rather broken up. Does Hojicha come in higher quality levels or is this low grade the essence of hojicha?
M.
Should I hunt up one with temp controls or just one that boils (without elements inside the boiling chamber)? Water too hot can always cool down, after all. How long something takes to go form boiling down the 30 deg. it takes to reach green tea temp, however…
M.
And for those of us unable (yet) to take a hop over to Hong Kong, what is this process that makes it unappealing?
M.
Valid points of concern; still tempted to buy it to see what the results would be…
What gaiwan source would you suggest? Short of a several thousand mile trip to China, that is.
M.
I think on my next infusion I’m going to let it sit longer (45s), to try to pull more flavor out. It could be that the tea has gone stale, though. No matter – it’s only ~8 miles to this shop and it wasn’t very expensive.
M.
If it’s ready for deployment, I’d say sooner rather than later. Is it it’s own menu selection (like taste character / category / TCM currently is) or does it have a parent/child relationship (frex, Select “Green” brings out a child menu allowing you to select quality within that category)?
Also, are orders currently being accepted? Running low on the green I ordered from JKTeashop, looking to order soon.
M.
