Me: What do you think this smells like? It reminds me of something but I can’t figure it out.
Mom: Hmm… it kind of smells like some kind of fish.
Me: … Oh, let me have another sniff…
Mom: Yeah, it’s reminding me of fish for some reason.
Me: It’s kind of like salmon?
Mom: Yeah!
Me: Teriyaki salmon!
Mom: Yes, that’s exactly it!
In a nutshell (unfortunately not a chestnut shell), this tastes like a bento box. Did I just eat a bento box with a pot of green tea on the side? What’s going on?
The dry leaf, the steeped tea, everything both smells and tastes like teriyaki salmon. Now, I quite enjoy eating it, but drinking it? Not so much.
The base also goes bitter as this cools. I didn’t follow the directions on the package because I thought steeping a green tea in boiling water is a bit ridiculous. Despite letting the water cool and being mindful of not steeping this for more than two minutes, I still ended up with a bitter result.
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I am cackling. OMG.
This is unopened in my cupboard. I have been a little afraid to try it!
I like this one! Maybe you got a bad batch?
Wow, never gotten teriyaki salmon from this one.
Yeah, part of me feels like my mom and I are just simply tasting/smelling it differently than the rest, but at the same time, how can we taste something that extremely differently? We both know what chestnuts are supposed to taste like.
The green tea base does have a savory notes to it but I honestly never got salmon from it. I wonder if your tea got contaminated somehow.
Yeah, it’s not the base at all. Don’t think I’d bother contacting them about it, though.
I am cackling. OMG.
This is unopened in my cupboard. I have been a little afraid to try it!
I like this one! Maybe you got a bad batch?
Wow, never gotten teriyaki salmon from this one.
Yeah, part of me feels like my mom and I are just simply tasting/smelling it differently than the rest, but at the same time, how can we taste something that extremely differently? We both know what chestnuts are supposed to taste like.
The green tea base does have a savory notes to it but I honestly never got salmon from it. I wonder if your tea got contaminated somehow.
Yeah, it’s not the base at all. Don’t think I’d bother contacting them about it, though.