Awabancha - 2010 Shikoku Fermented Green Tea

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Awabancha is a fermented green tea unique to Japan’s Shikoku Island. In some ways, it is similar to Laphet, the pickled tea leaf salad which is the national dish of Myanmar/Burma. Unlike Laphet, which is usually eaten as a salad, vegetable or condiment with a meal, Awabancha is steeped and consumed as a beverage.

The similarity of Awabancha to the pickled tea leaves of Southeast Asia has led to widespread speculation that there was some sortRead more

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True story: I tried this right after getting out of a showing of Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. Even two beers couldn’t erase the badness of that movie. Perhaps tea could do what alcohol failed to do. Thankfully, it (mostly) did. This is the anti-sencha; the anti-Japanese pan-fried green tea. There was quite a bit of complexity going on with the flavor – equal parts citrus, tang, sweetness, seaweed and a tickle of vinegar. And the best part? It was a green tea I could boil the s**t out of with a lazy brew-up.

Full Review: http://lazyliteratus.teatra.de/2011/12/05/in-a-pickle/

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KeenTeaThyme 13 years ago

You’re brave to bother trying to see that movie in theaters! Even the book was terrible, IMO. The Vampire Diaries and True Blood (books and movies) are way better! :)

Geoffrey Norman 13 years ago

I am vampire’d out. Luckily I still have my zombies.

TeaBrat 13 years ago

sounds yummy

LiberTEAS 13 years ago

I’m a Harry Potter fan, myself. And I thought that Robert Pattinson made a better looking wizard than he does a vampire.

ScottTeaMan 13 years ago

Interesting….if I ever order from Norbu, I’ll give this one a try. :))

ScottTeaMan 13 years ago

Interesting Linked review too.

Geoffrey Norman 13 years ago

@LiberTEAS – If you only saw him in Harry Potter, you’d think the boy had talent. Especially for making a Hufflepuff seem cool.

@Amy – It is…if you’re a fan of weird.

@Scott – Thank ya.

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This was…interesting? I’m not a fan of pickled anything but this was actually not half bad. It was surprisingly mellow with a mild citrus tang at the end of each sip. The smell of the wet leaves was a bit of a turn off though.

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200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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