Jede Sorte Tee verdient eine eigene Tasse, jedes Buch verdient eine eigene Sorte Tee.
Every sort of tea deserves it’s own cup, every books deserves it’s own sort of tea.
Oh how much I love tea. I’ve never had enough of it, and well, today I feel like sharing my favorite teas with you.
Living in Indonesia makes it hard to find some good quality teas. The one we can frequently find in the stores are dilmah, twinings or ahmad. But well, some of them are fairly good and enough to satisfy my taste buds.
The first tea I’d like to share with you is the green tea from the tea plantation in Cigasong. It’s not branded, but if you wish to buy it you can visit a small restaurant called R.M. Cigangsa somewhere along the road of Garut-Tasikmalaya. It’s the best local tea; it has a very strong smoky aroma and is very rich in taste.
I am a big fan of earl grey, I regularly drink the dilmah and twinings, they are ok and passable. I have high expectation of earl grey; I’ve once tasted the divine earl grey from Jackson of Picaddily and it’s sooo great. The essence of bergamot blend soo well with the strong aroma of the black tea. Too bad they had discontinued the product. So for now, the winner of the best earl grey for my taste is the TAZO earl grey. Yes, it’s that tazo tea that you can purchase in every Starbucks outlet, and believe me, it’s the perfect earl grey that you’ve been searching for.
As for other teas, I love to sip a dilmah chamomile tea or cinnamon tea in a night after a long and tiring day. I also love the peppermint tea for my afternoon tea or lunch companion; if it served cold my favorite is dilmah, but if it served hot, I prefer the one from twinings. For the on-the-go, TAZO’s spearmint is also a fairly good choice. I also love TAZO’s vanilla flavored tea and its Chai tea. I’ve also grown to like the ocha served in Sushi-Tei. The other tea I’ve only tasted once but would really love to drink again some time are mariage freres’ lapsang souchong and boston tea campaign’s darjeeling second flush.
And last but not least is the pu’er tea. The first time I tasted this chinese tea was some year ago in my previous office; they ordered a pu’er tea from verdant tea. Hands-down it’s the best tea I’ve ever tasted. I’ve been a big fans of pu’er ever since, and yes, I would love to travel to the Peacock Village myself and sip the very original pu’er tea there.
Ahh, that’s for my ramblings about my passion for tea. I am on the plan to taste the mariage freres’ marco polo and darjeeling first flush sometimes in the next week. I’ll tell you later if those teas could topped my current winner. Thank you for reading :)
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