/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>8754975

I've never tried from Hou de. I've heard good things about them though. I'm not sure where to buy my tea from either, really, as not many places I have found impress me.

Something I've been thinking about are large-scale operations vs. small-scale ones. The best of the bigger tea places use cold, de-oxygenated storage to keep their tea, and they fill each order individually, instead of just keeping sealed pre-measured packages of the product like you could put on store shelves. Small-scale tea shops don't seem to do this... they get it packaged from their supplier and just sell that to the end customer.

I was contemplating this as I looked at my unbrewed leaves today... and how dry they looked. They were dry even out of the package. Fresh green tea, and tea that has been stored properly, does not look dry. It looks somewhat moist and has a 'wet' fragrance (stop thinking lewd thoughts!). Maybe it's not so much of a concern for shincha, because it will have just been packaged anyway, but from summer onward, people who want the best tea they can get should be asking their vendors how the tea they buy is stored.

>>8756085

I don't use that, no.