Spray Tea? Bubble Tea? Tea Talk Third Edition

New Ways to Drink Tea

Spray Tea

Everyone  love a good cup of tea, but one British drinker has come up with an unusual way to brew it, thus the name spray tea. Spray tea is tea sprayed into a cup from an aerosol can.  The company name, “No more Tea Bags”  is a pre-brewed tea that drinkers squirt a small amount of the concentrated tea into a cup. then  add hot water and milk if desired.

However this new method of brewing tea is not without its controversy, with some British tea drinkers. Some even going to twitter and jokingly labeling it “evil” or #teaheresy.

Bubble tea 

Bubble tea is a  Taiwanese drink which was invented in the 1980’s. Many bubble tea recipes contains a tea based which is mixed or shaken with fruit or milk, to which chewy topioca balls or fruit jellies are often added.  Ice-blended versions of bubble tea have a more slushy consistency. The real fun with this drink is the chewy topioca balls which come in a variety of flavors and consistencies.

 

 

 

Beauty

Green Tea Lip Balm

If you are an avid green tea drinker as myself, then you will love that you can hydrate your lips with this tea. The green tea lip balm is sold by a well known Kyoto  tea maker Gion Tsujiri and contains premium matcha green tea called Kento No Mukashi, which translates, “Looking but to the fountain of an ancient capital city.”

The lip balm also has seed oil from the Camellia oleifera plant, which makes the lip balm have a rich smooth texture that you would expect in a lip balm. The color of this blam is an attractive green, much like the color of Matcha and also has a subtle matcha tea fragrance.

Unfortunately, this lip balm is only available in Tokyo,  but you can buy green tea lip balm at any health food store and online, especially on Amazon.

Tea Quotes

The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window. ~Uson, quoted in Sasaki Sanmi, Sadô Saijiki

A cup of tea is a cup of peace. ~Soshitsu Sen XV, quoted by Kenneth S. Cohen

Have a lovely day,

Alyssa

Information for Spray Tea found at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/why-steep-your-tea-when-you-can-spray-it-from-an-aerosol-can/article31963992/

 Information for Bubble tea found at http://www.bubbletea.com/

Image for Bubble tea By Oqmilteashop – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25164836

Information for Green Tea Lip Balm found at http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/09/19/keep-your-lips-hydrated-with-green-tea-lip-balm-from-kyoto-tea-maker-gion-tsujiri/