Thanks to Sil for providing this sample and to those who added this info on steepster so I can add a note. I know TerriHarpLady updated it last so thanks!
The only recognizable (read:English) words on the pack was the address and the name of the company. I even showed it to the people at work who couldn’t tell me a whole lot more, and they majority of them are Chinese. Granted, they are from Hong Kong, not mainland, but still… I thought someone there can decipher.
And omg, is this ever floral. I see the tasters before me described it as mild. It is not mild to me. It is overwhelmingly floral. And I’m pretty sure I burned the leaves because it is bitter. My name should be tea klutz but it was taken. Given no steeping instructions I did my best, 3 minutes in what I thought was 180ish water. I should have treated it more like a green, lowered the temp even more to err on the side of caution. Sil, I think I badly butchered this.
But what I can tell you is that I enjoyed having this exotic morsel, floral bitterness and all. If it was available, I probably wouldn’t buy it though. No longer a fan of floral stuff, I think I od’ed on jasmine a while back.
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Haha I hated this too. I dislike florals but t was part of a pack and random teas from new places are always fun :)
Lol. I was trying to cleverly veil the word “hate”. It is not nice to say bad things about samples people send you, is it? Although I remember a certain someone, let’s not name names, who said recently “thanks. This was nasty!” :p
yep! just ‘cause you don’t like the tea doesn’t mean it’s a reflection on the person who sent it! It just means that it’s not the tea for you…but that’ ok ’cause there are lots out there!
Haha I hated this too. I dislike florals but t was part of a pack and random teas from new places are always fun :)
Lol. I was trying to cleverly veil the word “hate”. It is not nice to say bad things about samples people send you, is it? Although I remember a certain someone, let’s not name names, who said recently “thanks. This was nasty!” :p
yep! just ‘cause you don’t like the tea doesn’t mean it’s a reflection on the person who sent it! It just means that it’s not the tea for you…but that’ ok ’cause there are lots out there!