This tea has been very carefully selected as one of the very most delicate sorts of tea I own, and I’ll tell you why.
Come time for cooking dinner, I discovered that I had no tap water. A little investigation told me that this was because it had been turned off so that they could fix a leaky pipe somewhere and that we should not expect to have running water again until 2.30 as the earliest. 2.30 was three hours gone by the time I discovered this, so who knew when there might be tap water again? So I waited a little while for the water to return while bemoaning the fact that I couldn’t cook dinner without water and that this fact made three times as hungry as I was to begin with. At least.
Then I realised that if I had to use the bathroom, I wouldn’t be able to wash my hands after. Then I decided to make a mad dash to the nearest grocery store for some bottled water rather than wait it out. You know, just in case.
Of course after having returned with my loot, the tap water has been turned on again (and it’s a lovely yellow too), but at least now I can do things without having to wait for all the yellowness to be gone.
Seeing as I actually had bottled water in the house now, I decided to see if I could tell any difference in tea making as opposed to my regular tap water. Hence making the most delicate tea I could find in my cupboard. I do have a plain Pai Mu Tan also, but that one’s getting rather on in age, so I figured a fresher one would be a better test subject, even if it did have a ton of fruit in it.
And I only just now realised that I took the dream tea when I meant to take the temple tea. Oh well, they have the same base, so same difference in this instance.
So! Interesting experiment ahead! Can I make out a difference between my tap water and this bottled stuff that cost money and didn’t come out of the faucet for next-to-free?
No.
