The Tea Temple- a Club for the Drinkers of Tea

[insanepurpleone]

I love tea.

However, I am a lazy American who *gasp* microwaves her water for tea. I know, I know. If my roommate makes it, she'll use the electric kettle, though. Maybe next year I can invest in some proper loose-leaf tea which will prompt me to not be as lazy as I am with the bags.

[Vapor]

Ah, the temple! You did make it! ^^ Put me down for another hopeless tea addict.

I prefer green over most anything, myself. Black is a close second.

[friday]

Mm, I love tea. I've only ever had instant or iced tea, sadly, normally brands like Lipton, which I like either hot or cold. I'm hoping that I can try real tea someday, but it doesn't seem available at this point. I like my tea very, very sweet. XD If I have enough of it, it makes me more hyper than I would be drinking something like, say, soda. But that's probably just me. If I act a bit loopy, my mom always asks if I had tea lately, the answer normally being yes.

Now that I look at it, I probably have no idea what I'm talking about. XD Anyway! I like sweet tea.

[KitClairvoyance]

Ohman. Ohman. I really really really really love my tea. =D

It's so subtly sweet and nuanced and it goes so well with breakfast-lunch-dinner. I'm entranced by the magic of it all, from the selecting of leaves, to the brewing, and finally the drinking. So much so that I make my tea from loose leaves whenever possible, and I insist on having the water just right.

As for favourite tea, gosh, I don't know! They're all so wonderful. Though there was this once where I was lucky enough to be given a small pouch of Bai Hao Yinzhen leaves, and ohmygoodness, I only had enough for one pot, but ohgosh, if I ever earn enough money to afford it properly, I'll keep it in the house for sure.

[Chao]

Tea *.*

It's the beverage my life is based on. Stuff coffee or coke, it's tea! I even based the decision of the new china I wanted last year for my birthday on the shape and feel of the tea cups, because I couldn't stand the thought of having nice looking plates but tea cups I wouldn't want to drink my tea from. A nice cup of black tea is like instant quality time for me. So the surroundings should match the feeling and not just be some kind of mug. With this kind of tea drinking, I prefer loose black tea leaves, though often I go for some flavoured types, everything from Earl grey to orange-vanilla. Passion fruit is also a great flavour I love.

Green tea I solely drink when it's flavoured and I prefer to drink it in summer because as any true tea drinker knows, you don't keep green tea heated on the flame of the teapot warmer and in summer cooled tea is just as great as hot tea.

White tea, while having a nice taste, is too soft in taste for my liking, so you won't find any white tea in my tea closet.
Yep, I have a whole cupboard in my kitchen devoted to tea. Fruit tea, both bagged and loose, black tea and a bit of green tea. The fruit tea, especially the bagged one, is for workdays, where I prepare a thermos jug for work in the morning.

Also I like my tea sweet. There are only two exceptions, one being a loose fruit tea with apple and caramel flavour and the other is bagged fruit tea with orange flavour which is a favourite as iced tea for summer. Most fruit teas I simply drink with artifical sweetener, but black tea... no, I can't bring myself to this. It's crashed brown sugar for this one.

[Sq]

Tea! =D

I enjoy tea. Chai and chamomile, mostly. And some green teas.

Teaaaaa.


I don't like iced tea, though, for some reason. Or tangy teas. D:

[Rider]

[glow=red,2,300]I like tea a lot. ^_^ The caf at school serves a kind of black tea with enough caffeine to get me through my classes. I also like chai and fruity teas. And anything with peppermint in.

It's kinda funny. Toka-kun brews medicinal teas (including a bag of nervine labeled, "Knockout tea: Put your jammies on 'cause you ain't going nowhere." It's funny.) I was having cramps of the ladylike sort yesterday and he gives me this stuff labeled "PMS tea" and tells me to smell it. I spent a good chunk of yesterday snorting tea leaves. >.>;[/glow]

[The Scrac that Smiles Back]

I enjoy tea with and without honey. The first tea I remember liking was an Irish breakfast tea.

[Gelquie]

I don't drink tea as much as I should, but when I do, I really enjoy it. I find it very relaxing, and they've helped me with more than one upset stomach.

But I find I can really only drink tisanes (aka: herbal teas). Even if the other types of teas like green tea or black tea didn't have caffeine, I just really don't like the taste of those.

My favorite tea is chamomile, and it's my go-to when I have an upset stomach. Another tea I often go to is a blend of chamomile and rooibos. Both are nice, and they go well together.

...That reminds me that I found this other type of tea on the shelves the other day that I was interested in trying, but I didn't know if I wanted the entire container before I knew how good it was. I should've written down what kind of blend it was. But maybe I'll be at that place again. I know where to get smaller portions, at least, but I have to know what I'm looking for.

[Dju]

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I just love tea! I believe I drink plenty, but not nearly enough. I just finished an entire tea pot by myself actually, no regrets. *_*

My introduction to the tea world was by a very nice blend of damascus and mint that my mom used to buy.

Oh, the memories! I drank it so often and with so much sugar that I kind of got over it. XD

Nowadays, I just take it pure. I love vanilla, rooibos, camomille, green tea, white tea and quite recently - black tea. ANd other stuff too, I'm not too picky.


I don't dig wild berry tea, though. Yuck. .__.


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Tea is beautiful. I've recently gotten into it for real, which means supporting my local tea retailer and my not-so-local online tea chain. But I've realized more and more that making it is waaaay more complicated than just pouring boiling water over leaves and waiting a few minutes. o___o Like, I found this website, which is not only painstakingly thorough in describing the tea itself, but also shows three ways to steep it. It's so much for me to take in!

Anyway, I like my tea as plain old tea. =D My favorites as of typing are genmaicha (like a snack tea!), milky oolong, and Assam.