Green Tea
 

Who else is addicted to it? <3

If you include Genmai, then me too. The added flavor of the rice has weaned me away from Sencha.

28 oz. on the way to work, 28 oz. during work, and another 28 oz. on the way home - minimum when we are having these streaks of 100+ F. days.:eek:

I love green tea too. and this is my favorite green tea recipe, you must try it and I'm sure that you will also love it..Here's the recipe :)

Mango Tango Iced Green Tea

* 1 1/2 cups chilled brewed green tea
* 3/4 cup chilled mango puree
* 3/4 cup chilledpeach juice or 3/4 cup apple juice
* 1 cup chilled pineapple juice
* 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice


Directions:

1.Combine all ingredients, pour into blender and blend for 2 minutes.
2.Pour over ice and garnish with sprigs of fresh mint.


Enjoy :)

I Love green tea, too. I just drink it plain because I don't know how to sweeten it. But I think I prefer it that way. :)

Totall addicted.

best,

............john

Yeah I love grenn tea too.

I like most Genmaicha and Matcha. But I also like Gyokuro or Yama no Cha.
I also love sweet with green tea taste.

I do love green tea but I prefer having it in loose leaf only nothing else.

I don't know why but I don't like cold green tea. I always prefer it hot. If I want cold tea, I prefer mugi-cha :vsign:

Could anyone tell me what "green tea" refers to? Is it 抹茶 or 緑茶? These have almost nothing in common. Thanks!

I think it refers to both... Oh I thought Matcha is milled GreenTea...

I think this depends on where the poster is. I have found, far too often, that "green tea" in the US refers to something that doesn`t even exist in Japan.
Ultra-sweetened "tea" with supposedly healthy "oriental" additives. For example things like this;

Original Brand AriZona Beverage Co.

100% Natural LIPTON

Etc. All sweetened, sometimes quite heavily. It is fascinating that there is a market and need for "diet green tea".

Chances are when someone says they love green tea, they are not talking about either 緑茶 or 抹茶, but something like this.
The US green tea boom happened after I left the states, so it is weird and shocking to encounter painfully sweet "green tea".

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!

Ok what exatcly would you call now greentea? I thought Matcha, Sencha and so is greentea?
I understand that this sweet stuff in bottles with green tea taste isn`t really green tea.

And there`s also chinese green tea.

I agree with you drinking tea will reduce cholesterol in your blood and refreshes you. Even I give some of the brands in green tea.
- Exotic Darjeeling tea
- Nilgiri rare handmade silver tips tea
- Certified 100% organic Darjeeling green tea
Hope you will like it.

Here it gives also Arizona and Lipton Icea Tea. But I won`t count that as greentea, it`s more some drink with maybe tea inside.
What`s about Oishii Green Tea? Would you count it als Green Tea?

I don't like green tea...
I love coffee

I love green tea too.
Especially I'm addicted to the icecream of green tea taste.

I love iced genmaicha, but any other green tea seems unpleasant from the start and worsens rather quickly. Even the genmai depends depends on the ratio of rice in the blend.... those with a bit more rice seem to work with cold better.

I was taught the chinese classification of teas and I haven't seen any other explanation that is consistent. It is based on how long the plant's leaves are cured. White teas - almost not at all; green teas - cured for less than a year (? not sure about the time frame - its been too long), and then black or red teas are aged anytime over a year. Some plants are better for one type of aging than others and thus have become the best known for that type of tea.

Matcha and Sencha are green teas (or at least I have never seen them as anything else), but I have one brand of Sencha that seems almost in the category of a black tea. I have found Jasmine as both a black tea and green tea, though I prefer it as green.

Not sure what boricha would be classed as, but given that the barley is roasted and the resulting taste, I would consider it a black tea.

I love green tea ,I will try that way

i am addicted to it!

If you include Genmai, then me too