What is Hanedashi?
As farmers process their 1st. flash tea leaves, a lot of small, broken bits of the new leaf are left over. Gathering all these broken bits of leaf together, many farmers and manufacturers then put them into tea bags. Instead of putting each into tea bags, for the heavy green tea drinker, Tokyo Matcha Selection offers a 300-gram bag of this Hanedashi-Fukamushi type.
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Fukamushi is a special method of processing sencha tea leaves that involves an extended steaming time. As a result, the leaves tend to lose their shape, crumbling into small particles much easier than other sencha teas. This transforms the flavor from a clean, smooth tasting tea, to a tea that is thick and strong in flavor for the amount and quality level of the leaf itself.