Ito En

Even though Ito En is the equivalent of Lipton Tea in Japan, I really enjoy their iced tea. They are extremely refreshing and don’t contain any sweetner. I tried this one for the first time today and it has a stronger flavor than their regular green tea. It kind of has a grassy/sencha flavor to it. The regular Oi Ocha tastes more like barley/popcorn/gen mai cha to me.

Tea’s Tea is the only bottled tea I can drink, and the Golden Oolong is my favourite. Honest, awesome tea!

Brewed myself a pot of this Oolong from Ito En. It’s by far, hands down, my absolute favorite tea of all time. A very smooth, earthy taste with a room filling aroma. Perfect in the morning or on a cold winter day.

Highly recommended.

Roasty and Toasty.. I enjoyed this today.

In fact, it was my deciding factor on where to go to lunch.

You see, I brought frozen Trader Joes burritos with me to work… but I’ve been eating those same damn burritos at work for awhile now. I decided to treat myself and eat out today. I was torn between a fresh cheap sandwich (a 10min. walk to the left) or a nice refreshing Teas’ Tea from the health food store (10min. walk to the right).

The Tea won. Which is really the only good thing about that grocery store. You have to check the expiration dates there. Too many times has an Odwalla or fresh fruit medley been bought, then returned promptly for having a really really nasty taste or smell from being past it’s date. So I decided to go safe, and went for a small caesar with a hummus wrap.

Harvest Market on 8th Street. Always check the expiration dates! That market should be fined. But they have every kind of Teas’ Tea, so I keep shopping there.

Grabbed on the way out the door to brunch.

Cooled me off after my long bike ride to work.

Everytime I drink this, it gets better and better. Soooo good.

Amazing. Favorite cold tea ever. Unsweetened and kissed with the taste of perfection. I could seriously drink these teas all day long.

New style white tea with bergamot and basil — and it works!

As I venture into more and more Japanese greens, I’m really starting to enjoy the vegetal taste of senchas like this one. I bought this at the Ito En store in New York (aka Tea Nerd Heaven) because it was a relatively low-cost sencha at $3/oz. It’s light and very refreshing and brews to a gorgeous green color.

I really like this tea!

Surprisingly good! Also from colleague! (She made me a tin of assorted teas. :) )

For 4/25 This is a great bottled tea, you can really distinguish the white after taste, from the immediate green taste and smell.

Surprisingly delicious.

This is a very light tea, with a surprising true green color — I wasn’t sure what was going on when I pulled out the leaves and the tea was this pale green color. I like it a lot; it’s a little lighter than most other senchas and the flavor is very light.

Lemony and flowery, so surprising and amazing I have been savoring it all morning…and may just have to get another for a 4 pm refresher…and make it a daily habit…highly recommended

I always loved being able to buy a million different unsweetened ice teas in Japan. They’re everywhere… It’s nice to see Ito En marketing them to the US audience. Now if only we could find them in S. Korea….

Good stuff. I like their different flavors.

great if you are in a hurry-no added sugar!