A tea store here sells this tea, look at ingredients. They call it White moon.
Green tea, fog tea, gunpowder, roasted rice, Pai mu tan, green tea with jasmin, white Silver pearls tea, Chun Mee, green Darjeeling, silver needle, pieces of ginger, pieces of strawberry...
Oh yeah, I haven't tried it, I just wanted to see what do you think about the ingredients. Could it be good?
Really doubt it's good. I've had (and still have a bit) of a german tisane made of various fruit pieces that was sold in clear packaging and looked **really** attractive, and the trouble is, the taste is too sour. Even if you brew it very lightly. So that strawberry is going to sour it up, ginger is in itself very strong-flavoured so it's going to overpower white and green tea, so you'll moustly get sour spicy taste with a hint of vegetal astringency. Unless they put in really tiny amount of ginger and strawberry. Really a waste of silver needle and pai mu tan, if they're good grade. Tell them to send silver needles and pai mu tan over here, it will taste the same anyway :P.
One simple question: why???????? Shen
And: why were onions and butter omitted?!
They packaged all their other teas and tisanes, and that is what they had left over. The onions and butter were in the kitchen refrigerator. Toci
Shen, a question in answer to yours: What would a vendor do with the dregs of tea and other ingredients at the bottom of their respective bins that they might otherwise have tossed out? Hmmmm? Hmmmmm! Michael
this is so weird...never seen such mixture before. were they trying to clean their shelf?
this is so weird...never seen such mixture before. were they trying to clean their shelf?
I guess my naivete speaks too loudly. It's also an unfathomable case of "getting what the market will bear" or just another "take the customer" tea. Americans, and Germans, I understand, drink Gummi Bear flavoured tea - so, what the hell......?! Shen
Remember, there are some people out there who do respond *yech, what the hell do they drink tea for?* And the gist of the tea drinker's response to such is "you don't understand".
Taste is something very personal.
So you all are against me buying some of this tea. It's $5 per 50 grams.
One other question though. Is it worth giving $14.49 for 50 grams of Silver Needle?
Could only happen in America!
Lars Stockholm
Depends on how rich you are. Ask them to make you a cup.. It's interesting but I wouldn't spend $5. I'd spend 50c for a cup to try it.
Silver needle is my absolute #1 favorite tea, so if it's a good silver needle, and you trust the vendor, then it's worth that much, easy. Last silver needle I bought was $40 for 1/4lb, about 113gram, and I would not feel it's overpriced if it cost three or four times as much.
No, no. No one's against your buying the tea. It's just a really, really curious choice. And I guess I join the group in pondering the motive of the vendor. To each his own. Shen
PS- and, at least, it didn't come in a tea bag! S
I think the roasted rice, strawberry and ginger would mask all of the subtle flavors of the greens and white teas. It's a very odd flavor combination, but maybe someone thought that they found the perfect blend of flavors. I would not buy 50 grams. Try buying 5 grams to test it out.
I'll double that, if only I don't have to drink it.
Lars Stockholm
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