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“I’m a fan. I think I’m just a fan of kukicha in general, actually. I mean, first of all, there’s the word. Kukicha. Kuki. Cha. It’s fun to say. Although I could very well be saying it wrong. Auggy...” Read full tasting note
“I really like this tea, one of my favorites _” Read full tasting note
“creamy!” Read full tasting note
Kuki-cha, also known as Twig Tea, is made mainly with tea stems.
Our Blender’s Kuki-cha is selected from fine quality Sen-cha, and then tossed with Matcha powder to give its mellow flavor and bright green liquor. It leaves a lingering sweetness on your palate, and pairs wonderfully with sweets.
Twig tea needs to be brewed in water that is just a notch hotter, to fully bring out all of its subtle flavors. For a fine brew we recommend steeping 1 tbsp of leaves with 1 cup of hot water (180 to 200F) for 1 minute.
Maeda-En has been in business for the last 25 years as an importer, manufacturer and wholesaler of green tea & green tea desserts. Our Japanese grown, fresh quality green teas are shipped directly from our production factory in Japan to the states and then world-wide.
I’m a fan.
I think I’m just a fan of kukicha in general, actually. I mean, first of all, there’s the word. Kukicha. Kuki. Cha. It’s fun to say. Although I could very well be saying it wrong. Auggy or someone else Japanese-familiar, where do you put the emphasis? Anyway, it makes me think of cute Japanese things, like Hamtaro. Kukicha could totally be a Hamtaro character.
I’m sorry, halfway through that sentence I shook my head and had to ask, “Am I really talking about Hamtaro?” because I drank some of this before class tonight because I had a test and I was really tired from staying up later than I should have to finish a program for another class so I downed some black tea before class at 6 and I was sipping on this well into 9 PM and that is the most hellacious run-on sentence I’ve ever created. Well, not most. [If you’ll believe that.] Anyway, moral of story is that it’s nearly 2 AM and I’m a wee bit WHEE right now because this also contains matcha.
The tea. There’s something that I find really sating about its overall taste. This one reads to me as very sweet, high, and grassy. I’ll enjoy it until I finish the bag for sure, but so far I like the extra buttery aspects I get from Samovar’s a bit more. There’s time, to experiment, however, so we’ll see what comes out of my little hamster tea friend!
The Japanese like to say that their language is unaccented. Not entirely true but true enough so each accent ku-ki-cha has pretty much equal emphasis. I also think kukicha is a cute word – mostly because it sounds similar to cookie and how can that be bad? (It can’t. Just so you know).
koo-kee-cha would be about the pronunciation, and like Auggy says there’s not really a stressed syllable. so cookie-cha. yum.
Really cute review!
Mmm, cookie-cha. Now I’m picturing the tea version of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Wonder how we could swing that…
Thanks for the pronunciation advice!
Upon further contemplation, I have decided that kukicha could also be a Pokemon. Kuki, kuki.
Didn’t Krabby say koki koki? There’s got to be room for a cameilia sinethsis-mon that goes kuki-CHUUUU!
Twig slap!