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>>9931104

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>>9931197

Some types of tea last a long time. Japanese sencha is the most perishable of all. The biggest question is whether or not tea is open or not, meaning sealed. Putting tea in an airtight container is not the equivalent of being sealed... airtight containers only work for short-term storage. Tea is best stored professionally, in temperature-controlled, oxygen-controlled storage facilites, meaning it is best to buy tea in small quantities as frequently as desired.

>>9934391

>Tencha

I cannot read kanji, so I can only speculate; I know that 'ten' can mean heaven, but it may be a different character. Tenshi, perhaps?

>>9934473

I was going to say, I bought a bottle of this back in the summer because I was curious what it tasted like, but when I happened to notice it was made in Thailand, I didn't even bother trying it.

>>9934492

Interesting thing about Chinese tea drinking: there are a lot of people who grow it and process it themselves, particularly because so much of China's population is still agrarian.

>>9934534

Because that Twinings tea may have spent years sitting on a shelf, and before it spent years sitting on a shelf, it spent years sitting in a warehouse after being swept off the production floor from the sorting process of loose leaf tea, which is what we buy.

>>9934562

Try Chinatown. It won't be an authentic kyusu, but you will be able to brew tea in it, and some of it is surprisingly good quality.

>>9934623

I've switched to Zencha myself these days. Yuuki-cha is good, but if this year's harvest has been any indication, Zencha is even better.