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Help me! I've fallen in love...

Please, help me! I had a normal life -> Silver Moon, school, home, Pi Lo Chun, homework, Gunpowder, reading a book and some Dai Mutan Bambu before falling asleep. Everything was OK, until... I decided to buy it. It took me a while, because I couldn't find it in any tea shop in my city so I decided to order it through Internet. Then, the postman arrived with my parcel. As soon as he got out, I started unpacking it, stopped doing anything, just brewed... I've fallen in love at the fist taste... with my first cup of Gyokuro.

Now, one of the most prestigious types of tea, usually prepared for special occasions, is the main tea I want to drink. When I get up, I think about Gyokuro, when I am at school, I am thinking where I left the thermometer, when I am going back, I am wondering if I have properly cleared my teapot last time...

I have been reading this group for quite a long time and having so many specialists around me, I hope you will be able to find some kind of treatment or... just another kind of tea...

Greetings, Theriel

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Theriel
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toci

I can't brew regular sencha to my satisfaction, let alone gyookuro, and even long jing gives me trouble. Needle greens are so tough to brew! So, what are your suggestions about brewing it? :)

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Jason F in Los Angeles

I can't brew regular sencha to my satisfaction, let alone gyookuro, and even long jing gives me trouble. Needle greens are so tough to brew! So, what are your suggestions about brewing it? :)

Theriel wrote: Please, help me!

blah blah blah I love gyokuro blah blah

Greetins, Theriel

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Jason F in Los Angeles

Hi Teriel,

First, welcome to the group!

Now, about your Gyokuro obsession: Keep on going! There are different Gyokuros out there, designated by growing area, my personal favorite of the moment being Yame, but that could change tomorrow. They make G by shading the leaf on the bush in order to force the leaf to produce more clorophyll, whence presumably the Gyokuro taste derives. Personally, it *is* a special occasion tea for me. It's a tea I want to "surprise" me when I drink it; this has little to do with cost.

Anyway, good to hear about your enthusiastic embracing of this most excellent tea! Now, let's see how fickle you are, and what your next tea love will be.

Michael

Theriele3dqk5$6eb$ snipped-for-privacy@news.dialog.net.pl5/4/06 17: snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com

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Michael Plant

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Site is in Japanese, run it through a translator. Manager is able to communicate well enough, in somewhat broken English, to do business via email. They take major USA Credit Cards. Prices are good and teas are great.

No affiliation, just a very satisfied customer.

-- Mike Petro

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Mike Petro

Sorry, in my fury about Howard I completely forgot to make a constructive contribution to the thread. I've ordered matcha and accessories from

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The service and quality were both great, and I plan to get some gyokuro from them today. However they are not in Europe and don't have a tremendous selection.

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Alex

Since "he" is anonymous, using a hotmail account, and only posts to advertise that one site, I take it that he thinks he is being clever in pretending to be a customer. Given business practices like this, I would avoid this site.

I've tasted teas from the site which Mike Petro endorsed and found them to be pretty good.

Rick.

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Rick Chappell

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