Re: Tea was Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: [MLUG] baby!

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jason Youngquist wrote:
> > > If you brew your own jasmine tea, don't use boiling water.  You get
> > > the mellow flavor when the water is just really, really hot.
>
>     Speaking of tea.  I'm looking for some tea that's slightly 
> caffinated.  I'd like to have some tea that I can drink after work and 
> still be able to sleep at night.  I can drink a coke before going to bed 
> and have no trouble sleeping, but tea is a different story.  
> Non-caffinated tea would be ok, but want a little bit of a kick to it, 
> just not too much.  Earl grey black tea, and this fusion red & white tea 
> have both kept me up until late at night.
>     I've heard that white tea is the lowest caffinated tea and was 
> thinking this might be the way to go, but I'm no tea expert.  Anyone 
> have any suggestions on where to get good tea locally, on-line, or 
> recommended types of tea to try?

I really think you should try the jasmine tea bags from the Hong Kong 
supermarket - it is on the I-70 driveway near highway 63 and Regional 
Hospital.  It comes in an orange box of 300 tea bags, and costs $4.  It 
does seem to have a low caffeine content, a bit like a coke, and I often 
take it late at night.  It is very soothing on the stomach.  It is also 
very cheap and easy to make.  The only "extra" thing I do with it is to 
brew it in a tea pot rather than in the cup - it seems to slightly round 
out the taste.

I have also tried their unflavored green tea bags as well as their 
gunpowder taste, but I didn't like it - I thought it had a certain sushi 
flavor to it.

I have tried the expensive white tea from Clovers.  The only one I 
really liked was called honey suckle or something like that - but it is 
clearly the flavoring and the not the tea itself that I am enjoying. 
They also sell loose white tea, but it tasted like medicine to me.  They 
also have loose jasmine tea that comes in little balls, but I think that 
it is perhaps not high quality (as compared to say what my Russian 
friend serves me), probably because it has been exposed to the air too long.

But basically I haven't found anything better then this very cheap tea 
from the Hong Kong supermarket (except the loose leaf tea the Russian 
guy gives me, and he buys that from the best tea merchants when he 
visits China).  The only thing I do with it is once I open the box, is 
to put the tea bags into a ziplock bag - this seems to preserve the 
flavor a little better.  I probably have 3 or 4 cups of this tea every day.


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