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Another venture with tea

Well here I go again. The lady at our locale tea store gave me a sample of green tea. Her husband really likes it and she hated it. So feeling rather brave today I tried it. It was the most god awful tasting stuff I've ever had. I am not sure what it is for sure, but she wrote on the label 'one leaf tea' green. It was rolled in a tight ball about the size of gum ball. When it unfurled it was the tip of a branch or what ever you would call it. It was about

2-3 inches long and had many leaves attached. I didn't brew it very long, maybe a min or two. It is really green and didn't smell bad, but it was all I could do to drink it.
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Anna
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It isn't tea at all, not in the sense of Camellia sinensis. It's Kuding Cha, a member of the holly family (Ilex.) Check the Google groups archive for RFDT; you'll see some discussions of this stuff in the past. It's sometimes called One Leaf Bitter Tea, for reasons you now understand.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

I'm glad someone caught this, and whoever is running that tea shop should be ashamed. It is indeed Kuding Cha, and it's not 'tea' at all - it's an herbal infusion. Very bitter, and if someone is passing this stuff off as green tea, they're going to turn a lot of people off to it.

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pilo_

LOL, no wonder, it was the nastiest stuff I've ever tried. I'm not sure how much this little old lady knows about tea, it is also a used book store. I know she enjoys drinking tea. In this little hippie town that we retired to, it doesn't seem that the people are tea drinkers. She gave me several samples of different tea to bring home to try. I did mention this news group, so maybe she will do some reading. I did really like the green dragon Thanks so much for knowing what it was that I just drank. I just hope I don't have to stay close to the facilities tomorrow. Anna

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Anna

And a good thing if you have cold or something. I do like its taste too, but brewed very cool - cooler than most delicate greens - more like mate brewing. Most probably the owner just have no idea because good kuding single leaf is not that cheapo.

Sasha.

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Alex Chaihorsky

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