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Originally Posted by masaegu
Thanks Nyororin! That is very interesting and it explains why I have never been able to talk about "green tea" all that successfully with people from other countries.  |
The American green tea looks horrible! In the Uk 'green tea' is usually anything that isn't herbal tea, or black tea. So all Chinese tea, white teas, Japanese tea, 麦茶、ほうじ茶、煎茶、玄米茶 etc can sometimes be called "green tea". 抹茶 is pretty rare to come across.
But it usually comes as a tea bag at least, and not sweetened!
Edit: Have to say actually, when I went to the states this summer, I ended up drinking nothing but water and coffee after the first week. Everything tasted of artificial sweetener!