In January I ate at a Korean restaurant in Manhattan and was given tea that tasted unfamiliar, strange, and crazy good. The friend I was with thought it was toasted rice tea, which I had never had before. I bought this in search of something like the delicious tea from the Korean restaurant, and the flavor is definitely similar. I enjoy this tea quite a bit and it’s good for at least one re-steep.
The toasted rice flavor in the tea at the restaurant was much stronger than this. Is it common to find toasted rice tea without green tea, or are they always mixed? (The color of the restaurant tea was also clear-to-beige, not yellow like green tea.) If toasted rice without green tea is common, that might be what the restaurant served (at the very least, there was more toasted rice in their tea).
