Assam tea

Assam tea, Dibrugarh, India
I got a souvenir tea from Okamoto

Okamoto said
 The local people buy it for Chai

At the shop, hundreds cups Chai are sold per day

Assam tea is necessity, because it can be cheaply mass supply

He saw that a woman buy 20kg of tea leaves
 

I felt the taste of tea came front as boiled with milk
While I felt flat as brewed straight at the end of year tea party

Thanks Okamoto !!

Pan fried tea by Shibamoto

 

 Kabosu marmalade with pan fried tea

Kabosu is citrus fruit

Marmalade was so sour that it matched well with tea

Shibamoto work in welfare facility, because farming is hard regarding money

But, I think that it is good a tea master has the other work

The marmalade was made by there

Thank you !!

Dried sweet potato

 The other day, I joined to make dried sweet potatoes

At Akiyama tea estate, Fuji, Shizuoka

The first, sweet potatoes were steamed for 4hours

Steamed potatoes !!

 Potatoes were peeled

It was hard to peel because potatoes were very bumpy

Grandma said that it like Gaudi's architecture

 Granpa said I am brain surgeon

 And these potatoes were dried under the sun by granddaughters

Now, napa cabbages and radishes were dried

Okumidori, sencha tea, hand picking

made by Mr.Akiyama

 

Thank you Akiyama family !!

Pu'er tea

  Sorry, I brewed pu'er tea with Andrzej's shiboridashi as a gaiwan

The soil of the tea wear was rough

Then, I felt that it may match well high temperature

than low temperature like sencha tea

Pu'er tea became milld even though I felt bitter with a gaiwan

Tea leaves were 中茶牌3917沱茶93,pu'er 3917 tuo cha 93

by puer-cha.com

Shiboridashi from Poland

I think what do I brewed tea with Andrzej 's tea wear

Sencha, Oolong, black tea or pu'er

Shiboridashi from Poland

 

I received the tea wear ,Shiboridashi

made by Andrzej Bero

from Poland

I brewed sencha tea

made from Umegashima, Shizuoka

The color of tea wear matched well with tea leaves

Thanks for Tochiku and Andrzej

Pu' er tea party

版納古樹熟餅2010
from Bada Mt. old trees at 2010

This post fermented pu'er tea were all made by hand

Also Rolling !!

 Making post fermented tea leaves needs a large mount of tea leaves

in order to fermentation

Because I gave up a little bit of tea leaves at Shibamoto,

 I can not image hand rolling 120kg/day fresh leaves

It was advantage of hand rolling that tea leaves had elasticity

So, tea leaves were aerobic fermentation

  We had pu'er tea party of puer-cha.com

and invited Fujimoto
Thanks for all

New blog

This blog can not view in China
Then, I am going to write new Japanese blog in parallel
New blog " BUT TEA "is also regards

Pu'er black tea

漫撒生態紅餅2014
Man Sa black tea 2014

Pu' er black tea

漫撒生態紅餅2014
Man Sa black tea 2014

Brewing black tea need amount of heat

A tea wear is good a tea pot than a gaiwan

It is good that the tea pot made of soil
Soil has heat

Hot water is poured full of the tea pot

 The other day, I joined pu'er tea party by puer-cha.com
The first tea was pu'er black tea
As described above, I was teached

Now, I am practicing 

Thank you  Mr.Fujimoto

Geminids with Rock tea

Last night, I went to Kawane, Shizuoka

to watch Geminids
with ShuiShein Rock Tea and dried persimmons

Geminids streamed soft and slow like snow

A cup of hot rock tea well

Thank you, Mr.Shibamoto

Pu'er tea

弯弓古樹青餅2014
I want to know the state of tea leaves
Whether the fermentation of the tea leaves were well or bad
Whether the fixtation were sufficient
And, What are the tea master thinking?
I want to know these questions from tea leaves

I have received the impression from tea leaves
For example, recently, from white tea leaves made by Mr.Shibamoto
But, I can not explane my impression
And my impression does not equal to goodness of tea leaves
I luck mind and times to watch the tea leaves

Mr.Fujimoto face to tea leaves
I want to know how to watch or feel the tea
But, I do not know Xishuangbanna
While, I think that the drainage water from tea leaves is common sencha and pu'er tea,e.g. 

Pu' er tea

那カ古樹青餅2014

 I am going to pu' er tea party of puer-cha.com

In this year, I joined some making tea leaves

But, I can not distinguish whether good or bad tea leaves

I can not understand that tea stuck in the throat

I can not feel that tea scratch in the throat

I sometimes feel good tea leaves, while another times I feel bad the tea leaves

When I made the tea, I can not answer whether the tea is good or bad

Next tea season, I am going to join making tea more and more

Until next season, I want to study how to watch tea leaves

Then I am going to pu'er tea party by Mr.Fujimoto

I feel that this tea leaves were very good

The scent was special

I can only say that the scent can not arise from Japanese tea leaves

But I can not explane the reason

I have little words for tea

White tea leaves

White tea leaves made by Mr.Shibamoto
The leaves are so beautiful, I can not brew tea

Now, I can only see the leaves

Thanks for Mr.Shibamoto

Matcha in Autumn

 It is Autumn (#^^#)

Thank you !!

An apple pie with tea

My son baked apple pies

So, I brewed Wakocha, Japanese black tea,
named Kahori 2nd by Mr.Masui

The tea matched with apple

Thank you !!

Matcha with Katsura tree

Leaves of Katsura tree fell

These withered leaves smelled very sweet !!

but living leaves does not smell

Tea trip

I went to pick tea leaves at the foot of Mt.Fuji with Mr.Shibamoto

This tea was the pan fried tea by him

So, tea leaves used for White tea

Today's Mt.Fuji was cloud covered

  At Akiyama tea estate, some vegetables were cultivated

The Taros were specialty !!

Taros were pealed with this machine

I had vegetables with Tonjiru, miso soup

Thank you for all

Pu'er black tea

Today, I brewed strong

And very good (^^)
Pu' er blask tea by pu-er.com

Wakocha, Yamagiri

Wakocha, Yamegiri

mede by Mr.Sano

from Umegashima, Shizuoka

Sencha tea

 

A cup of Kuki-tea, Sencha tea which is used stems of tea trees

by Mr.Saito from Nishimata, Shizuoka

Sencha tea

It's Autumn

A cup of sencha tea by Mr.Saitoi from Nishimata, Shizuoka

Sencha

Sencha tea by Mr.Saito from Nishimata, Shizuoka

This tea leaves were consisted of stems
Mr.Saito keeps the soil that does not put nitrogen
Though I felt Umami tste

Pu' er black tea

Pu' er black tea from Mt. Mansa, 漫撒山

by puer-cha .com
The scene remained after drinking

Tori no Ichi

 "Tori no ichi" is an open-market fair held at Hanazono-jinja Shrine, Shinjuku, Tokyo

around the country on the Days of the Cock in November every year

 On the days of 'Tori no ichi,' stalls selling 'Engi-kumade' decorated with lucky charms that bring in good fortune such as okame

 I got the sweets, Kiri-Sanshou, 切り山椒 that like soft rice cakes
I had it with Pu'er tea from 弯弓, Wangong

Thank you

Wakocha

Wakocha, Japanese black tea with Emuni
From upper left

Kuma tea estate, Benifuki

Mr.Kajiwara, Benifuki

Kureha, Benikanbai

Kureha, Kitsuki

Kureha, Minamisatsuma

Mr.Shibamoto, Benifuki
Kureha, Sayaka from Kitsuki

Kureha, Benifuki by Mr.Iwata

Mr.Fumoto, Sayama

Thank you for all !!

Wakocha

Wakocha, Japanese black tea with Emuni, tea wear artist

The last tea is Benikanbai, flavered with apricot flowers

by Kureha
This tea was made at winter

Because apricot flowers come out December～January

I am looking foward to have next Benikanbai