/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17860901
>>17860938
Hey thanks for the tip here. I've actually decided to start writing the tastes down (in addition to other things unrelated to tea) in a notebook so that's really helping a lot. In a strange way, I actually like to see how wrong/different I feel about a tea when I drink it a second time versus the written account of how I felt it tasted the first time. I should probably add a bit more on how I prepared it or what I was eating with it.
>>17860999
>>17861063
Also yeah, I miss the old guy a lot even though it's already been a few years and we're missing his generational experiences with tea growing up but I'm still able to mostly talk about history and sports with my father. I actually only got back into frequently drinking tea recently and haven't been drinking it all that often ever since I moved away from home. When I do visit, our discussions on tea and where they're from usually segue into some history or politics of the places we're discussing (e.g. Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea). I'll take the advice given here and start going beyond what we usually drink and discuss the tastes there. Might be a good way to catch up.

The older I get, the more I can understand why tea time and drinking tea was such a nice way to kill time and talk back in the day. I don't know if I'm just being an overly sentimental idiot but I feel like the taste of the tea can also set the mood for the discussion too. Might start getting into the ritual stuff or gaiwan stuff. I know my father has a bunch of stuff that I have no clue how to use so I might ask him about that too. I'll also take a look at the cold brewed senchas too. I've very very rarely had cold tea.