/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I usually combine my tea with hot water.

I just usually dump them together and add sugar. Doesn't really matter what.

>>12312369

In traditional tea set like that why do they need to pound and stir it like a mortar?

Celestial Tea (Peach Blossom pack) + warm/hot water + one shot of vodka + teaspoon of sugar served over ice

>>12312383
Hot water will melt the ice and leave the tea flavorless retard.

What matcha do you guys recommend for matcha noobs?

>sugar in tea

plebs don't know how to make tea properly so they mask the bad taste with sugar

>>12312391
not if its half water/ice

>>12312401
How do you make yours senpai-sama?

>>12312401
It all tastes the same regardless. Are you going to tell me not to use hot water from my sink next?

>>12312428
>hot water straight from the sink

/jp/ please i know you're not this pleb

>>12312369
The feeling when I cannot enjoy tea with Ciel.

>>12312369
I've never got into this powder shit of glorious Nippon, really. I prefer my plain dried tea leaves more than this.

Matcha and ice cream.

I think I'm going to make some green tea with milk and sugar. Does that sound good?

>>12312463
That's how I like it

>>12312478
I love how Nanoha just stares the fuck out of her whenever she does that.

>>12312369
Earl Grey.
Plain.
Brewed strong.
Served with small pastries.
Do you even 5 o' clock tea time?

Black>Oolong>White>Green>Herbal

Deal with it.

>Not pouring in some Baileys or Jaegermeister into your tea.

>>12312428

>not having god tier Keurig for instant hot water

>>12312542
This nigger right here.

I usually go for Creme Brulee or Melbourne Breakfast, Earl Grey is too perfume-y for me.

But you have to eat it with cakes and buns or you're just not having tea right.

I've been getting this from my local market because I'm now too poor to keep buying fancy green teas online. It tastes like an ashtray but I got used to it. I hear you're actually supposed to put milk in it but I never bother.

>>12312619
One thing I like to do is cut a bun in half, heat it up so it's nice and warm, then spread a thin layer of butter to melt. After that, I put on some jam. It is delicious.

>>12312632
Irish Breakfast is a grittier version of English Breakfast. It's good if you like smoky tea. If you have twinings there, try assam or russian caravan, might be more up your alley.

>>12312639
What about Orange Pekoe? I always order that just cause the name got lodged in my memory somehow.

>>12312642
It's smooth and kinda' creamy, you'd probably like it.

>>12312637
Oh man, you're making me hungry. I like to have moist cakes with my tea like chocolate mud cake or maybe a tart, but I have a crazy sweet tooth. Gingernuts are the best biscuit to have with it for dunking.

This tea right here is amazing tea.

Cinnamon and Ginger + hot water is delicious, I like the "spicy" kinds of tea. Or anything with cinnamon or ginger.

I also use to have a mochi or two alongside the tea, as they taste pretty weird by themselves.

>>12312373
>>12312564

>>12312399
Mmmm... koyama-en is nice.
>>12312380
Because you're drinking the full tea leaf (powdered), and not just an infusion.

>>12312369
Whisked matcha, with a sweet of wasanbon first.

Am I the only one who proceeds to sit in Seiza position whenever I drink tea?

>>12312866
Yes. No one else in the entire world including the entire population of japan sits in seiza when drinking their tea.

>>12312866
It hurts my knees if I sit like that for too long.

>>12312866
>>12312878
How long can you sit in Seiza?

>>12312866

I used to but then my legs started hurting.

Also I figured since I didn't have a traditional handle-less cup it wasn't authentic enough anyway.

stuff i sometimes add when i feel like it:
vanilla
honey
cinnamon
apple peels
orange peels
lemon
honey raki

this is all to black tea though, the thought of adding something to green tea never even occurred to me

>>12312882

Close to around 20 minutes at the absolute max.

>>12312885
>vanilla
>honey
>cinnamon
>apple peels
>orange peels
>lemon
>honey raki

They are all sweet or sweet deviated supplements...

Have stuff you can recommend for those people who don't like sweets?

>>12312882
Not long enough, less than >>12312887

>>12312887
>>12312891

That was a deviant result though.

Usually on average its 10 then I give up.

>>12312877
B-but

>>12312878
Yes, it does.

>>12312882
I can sit around 25-30 minutes. If you sit on the floor, it hurts like hell. I tend to put a pillow underneath my knees and feet (it hurts there as well). Its not unheard of placing a pillow on top of your legs so you place your butt on that. It helps the time you can sit. Seiza works best when you're doing something (reading, playing games, watching anime) because you don't need to focus on the pain. What usually happens is that my feet falls asleep. But I do it as often as I can because I'm really stiff, and I need to stretch.
I have more problems sitting crosslegged (like how most nips sit all the time) because of the stiffness. Any tips on this? Whenever I sit like that I have to bend forward to not fall backwards

>>12312894
Pretty sure the trick is to shift your weight around as you sit there a while. Just like people switch their legs around when they cross them, you should be able to cross your feet differently.

Don't know about the sitting crosslegged part.

>>12312890
no, since I've never experimented with that. all these add a very different sweetness from sugar though. personally I can't stand black tea with sugar unless it's also with milk

that said, someone mentioned ginger in this thread, I'd like to try that out. The store I get my tea at has aromatic teas with these not sweet or fruity things added, maybe you'll get some inspiration:
chili pepper (+ orange)
ginseng
ginger

>>12312940
>ginseng

This is one is interesting.

It adds an unique bitterness / tangy-ness to the tea.

>>12312913
How would one shift ones legs when you sit on them?

Gotta have my coffee.

>>12312369
I don't have a bamboo brush for my mocha, I use an electric foamer thing. Is it a good idea ?

I made green tea and put milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon.
It tasted like chai.

>>12312607
>Chinese Cartoons image board
>Keurig for hot nigger

>>12313072
Just move your weight slightly from one side to the other, you can also lift yourself up a bit when you do it. It's not like all your weight is on your feet. In fact, it's mostly on that part just below the knees.

I got Darjeeling and orange pekoe because of girls und panzer. My alchemy level is low so I haven't tried anything else.

I'll share with you, /jp/, my secret recipe.

Buy pancakes from the supermarket (or make them yourself if you are pro). Make earl grey and put like 1cl on a plate and spread it evenly, then put the pancake on that and warm it up in the microwave. Put brown sugar on it en enjoy!

>>12312637
>>12312639
You guys are so cute, in most of England this is just how you normally have a snack anyway.

Best ways to enjoy matcha? I've been whisking it with milk and cold water.

>>12312639

What about twinings everyday?

>>12312885
Do you add after or before infusing? I mean the liquid stuff obviously after, but it might be interesting if you put the dry stuff in first.

>>12312430
>>>/a/

I want to get into tea so I can pretend my stoic Japanese anime girls will like me more, I've only ever had generic brand with milk. Where do I buy good tea?

Where do you lads get your powdered tea from? Do any stores sell it?

>>12334346
Specialized shops, and teahouses I'd say. The kind whose walls are covered in tea varieties, not the kind that's a bakery with a few bagged teas in the backroom.

I also recommend no sugar. That allows you much more to differenciate between teas.

>>12334719
>Specialized shops, and teahouses I'd say.

Not him but urgh this mean I have to go outside.

Are there any good online teahouse stores online with lots of variety that also shop to outside NA e.g. Australia.

>>12334742
This this this. I live in the middle of no-where anyway, we don't have specialized shops for anything here.

>>12334742
No idea about that, I don't fear sunlight. Though to my defense I'm not really from /jp/.

>>12334771
>I don't fear sunlight.

I don't either.

I just hate being around people.

>>12334778
Same here. You're also Australian, right? I don't blame you.

>>12334742
If you're Australian there are a couple of decent looking sites that come up with "Buying tea online Australia" in Google. I can't speak for how reliable any of them are because I haven't bought from them. Worth a shot though.

>>12334801

I appreciate your assistance, but googling is something I could have done and I was after more of a personal referral.

I only drink green tea (without milk) for the health benefits because the rest of my diet is fatty and bad and I cling on to the stupid hope that something good in that drink will counter all the other bad shit I put into my body.

>>12334831
>green tea
>milk

This is probably subjective but does green tea even go well with milk?

Generally speaking I am of the view that Asian teas do not go well with milk?

>>12334831
Fat is not too bad, suger is worse. Carbs can be bad too if you do not use the energy you ge from them.

>>12334719
Could you get anything good from standard shops? I have never seen a tea shop.

>>12334778
I hate both but If I wear a hat and sunscreen then I can sort of deal with the sun.

>>12334905

Do you have any Asian markets? They tend to have a decent selection.

>>12334916
There is a china town type thing in my nearest city but that is an hour and a half drive from the town I live in.

>>12334916
>Asian markets

I hate them.

There either in their native Asian language writing and / or the translation for them is absolutely terrible.

>>12327969
before

and for people looking for online stores, just search the catalog for previous tea threads

I drink Lipton

>>12340929
Fucking WEEBAZOID freak. Go back to Nippon gook.

>tea

fucking plebshits

Why do you guys drink coffee/tea? Is is for the taste, or health benefits or something?

Personally I've tried both and no offense, I think both taste like drainwater

>>12341034
they think they look cool, that's all

>>12341005

>plain black coffee

That is absolutely disgusting.

Is anyone else incapable of drinking bagged tea after tasting loose-leafed? It should be illegal to sell it in such a butchered state.

>>12341247

No. I don't see why.

I have a cup of genmaicha after work most days. One of my friends bought me a tin of this http://www.lupicia.com.au/15/green-tea-herbal/345/ume-vert
It smells and tastes so goddamn nice that I only have it on special occasions.

I usually have a cup of Russian caravan or English breakfast in the morning on weekends, and a cup of coffee every weekday morning.

It's not tea, but I've also become addicted to lipton daiquiri ice tea. It's like crack cocaine.

>>12341205
How is being 12 treating you?

What equipment do you use to make your coffee, coffee otakus? If you say microwaved tap water and instant coffee I will find you.

>>12348019
But that's what I use ;_;
Come find me any time, we can play 2hu and drink shitty coffee together

>>12348019
Of course not, I use filtered water. I'm not a barbarian.

>>12348139
The only reason why I said I'd find you is so I can completely AVOID you at all costs, you fake coffee otaku.

>>12348140
Is that all you do differently? Are there any actual coffee otaku here?

>>12348155
I only drink coffee when I want to pull an all nighted playing games, else I can get up at any time just fine without caffeine

Is there any great powder tea on Rakuten?

>>12348172
I use a baratza encore to grind beans and several coffee making implements which includes an aeropress and other junk which I rarely use. I haven't invested in an espresso machine yet and I'm not sure if I really will as the entry level pricing is up in the $500+ range. The aeropress is just fine and what I usually use.

Properly prepared, freshly ground coffee is very different from instant coffee. And unless you frequent some really good coffee houses it's much better than 90% of the places that serve coffee, sugarbucks included. It's a shame that all you drink coffee for is caffeine, there's some great flavor you're missing out on. It's like eating completely flavorless, bitter pizza for the sake of getting fat.

>>12348155
i really like her cause of how cute she isbut i really like looking at her which remidns me of one time i was ou tin the winter and there was snow and i was on a mountain and i was in all the s now but we had a tent is it wasokay and i just slept there so it wasokay ai didn get to cold :)

>>12348281
feel

>>12348286
please my life is hrd enough :((((:(((

oh fug :(

>>12348281
End your life.

>>12341247
Me. Bagged tea is just plain disgusting. But it doesn't really matter. The kind of people who buy bagged tea don't know what the fuck they're doing anyway. I've seen some atrocities committed in the preparation of ``tea''. I've seen boiling water put on bagged green tea. I've seen people use just 2 teabags for a full pot of water (12 cups). I've seen people put cold water in a pot, put the teabags in then boiled the water with them in. I've seen teabags left to steep for days. Days!

The worst part is these people refuse to be enlightened and really believe tea is supposed to taste like burnt bitter swill that needs to be sweetened/altered with sugar and various other things. Like lemon juice. In green tea. Yum yum.

I'm thinking of brewing tea wine, what do you guys think?

I imagine it wouldn't be that much different of a process from making kilju. Basically you're still using sugar water to ferment into alcohol but with the added tannins and flavors from the tea. I wonder how it would turn out.

How much of an investment does one have to make to truly appreciate the fine arts of tea / coffee?

>>12348575
Even Lipton is passable with proper brewing. Bagged tea can be alright, esp those triangle mesh ones with leaves in them.

>>12349216
Coffee: A lot, if you want to roast it yourself it's expensive to do in quantity. You end up buying all kinds of contraptions. Then you start looking into espresso.

Tea: $20 pot, $1 mug, $15-$60/50g of Tea, So not much. Even if you want to make matcha like a master weeb it's not too expensive for a kit.

>>12349273
>50g of Tea

Is that the standard dose of tea?

>>12348019
I have a Keurig

>>12349554
It's more or less the standard measure sold. Unless you go to a real tea shop you can't buy by the gram.

>>12349578
Nasty.

>>12349578
Could you really call yourself a coffee otaku if you use a keurig? A keurig is like having a dumb teenage starbucks "barista" in your kitchen and no, that's not a good thing. What a waste of money, you could have bought a nice grinder.

>>12349662
>>12349670
It was a Christmas present actually. I don't really care, it makes tasty coffee.

Also,

>coffee otaku

>>12349732
>i don't care!
>it was free, honest!
>it's good enough for me!

Simply pathetic. Next time don't reply to my post, I was only talking to coffee otakus.

>>12349927
damn dude, sorry

>>12348019
I mainly drink tea, but I do better than average for coffee. I have a burr grinder, a few french presses, and I know where to buy fresh beans. I've never roasted my own or bothered with espresso equipment because I simply don't drink enough. I would still like to get a moka pot and a cheap pour over setup.

I'm planning on making a bunch of iced tea with stevia, delicious, sugarless iced tea. Just buy some on ebay, not in grocery stores.

For all the discussion of types and sub-types of ching-chong teas, why is there never any discussion of the various Indian teas, which are generally lauded by tea critics as the superior source of tea leaves?
I am working on a variation of the standard milk-and-masala Assam tea recipe, and liking it so far.

>>12352718
It's partly because India has very little tea culture in comparison.

>>12352750
>very little tea culture in comparison
Tea plays a little less importance in India than in Japan, but it is still very important in daily life. Besides, the tea that comes from India plays a huge role in the world's supply of tea as well as global tea culture.

>>12352773
I'm not saying India doesn't both grow and consume a ton of tea. What I'm saying is that China and Japan have considered it of national and ceremonial significance for around 1000 years, and I think that's part of the draw. My understanding is that with India, a lot of the practices are recent and largely from British influence.

>>12352840
You are right about that. As far as I can tell, tea in India doesn't generally have any ceremonial/religious significance, but instead, drinking tea has more of a traditional and practical (wake up in the morning, help sleep at night) appeal.
Still, the tea is very good, and I feel that any tea enthusiast should give it a shot at least once.

>>12352850
I think tea is worth checking out in general. From the places that grow it and the places that have their own culture based on importing. I have a slight East Asian bias myself, but this is /jp/. I would like to get some good quality Assam and Darjeeling eventually.

Tried weed tea. It was good. Dunno if I got high or not but it was yummy! I had like 4 glasses.

>>12334742
http://www.yuuki-cha.com/ Good selection of Japanese teas. I don't know anywhere that sells non Jap teas that will ship to Australia though.

>>12357091

Wow thanks.

That list of options looks really exotic.

I'm going to need to educate myself and learn of these tea because its overwhelming.

I like a double of whatever I can get my hands on from Shizouka, hold the radaway.

>>12357091
>my homu when my tally comes up to $84 dollars for a teapot and 3 teas, 1 green 1 oolong 1 black

am i just paying the gaijin tax or is this tea thing an expensive hobby?

>>12312369
Is maccha worth a try?

Kinda thinking of trying it out but the traditional way of brewing it seems like it takes some work (going to the store and getting the materials) while looking like a weeb.

>>12349273
>>12349216
Tea can be quite an investment. That is, if you actually want to brew good tea, using quality loose leaf tea and real, quality tea ware. Chinese and Japanese tea ceremony both require totally different tea sets. And there are also different styles and variations of both the Japanese and Chinese tea sets, in addition to the tea.

I would say between 50 - 150 for a Chinese tea set depending on if you want to get every little piece, and if you get a cheap set, or piece together your own based on what you like. And this is just to start.

For Japanese tea, you have the tea ceremony to make Matcha, if you want to do that right, probably between 40 and 100, depending on how nice you want the bowl and the whisk to be. Then there is the tea ware for normal Japanese tea, which is a small tea pot and some cups, this could also cost between 40 and well over 100.

Not to mention the tea itself. I personally budget myself to around 30 dollars a month on tea

>>12312894
If the stiffness when sitting crosslegged is in the inner thigh, try stretching your adductors with lunges and squats.

>>12363423

Where does one get started on this?

What do you use and where can we get it?

>>12361664
There's a hipster cafe nearby my house that sells teas and "gear" for roughly what you've paid. An Asian market just down the road sells products of somewhat inferior quality for half the price.

I'm guessing it's a combination of product quality, shipping, and gaijin tax imposed on finicky drinkers.

>>12349249
Satcheled tea is all I ever drink now. I haven't found any place that sells proper tea equipment without the 10000% markup.

tea

>>12373118

That looks cozy and pretentious at the same time.

>>12312642
>the name got lodged in my memory somehow
Good tea, good band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdqunNurAYg

Spearmint and Chamomile tea in my garden. Aside from that I drink Twinning Earl Grey.

Usually I drink it alone, but sometimes I'll prepare a piece of french bread with honey.

I grow Spearmint and Chamomile tea in my garden, so I often drink those. Aside from that I drink Twinning's Earl Grey.

I prefer to drink it alone, but sometimes I'll prepare a piece of french bread with honey.

>>12349732
I was given one for free too, it's not that bad. Definitely a waste of money if you don't buy one of those refillable cups for it though.

I like using mine to heat and dispense water into my instant miso mix

>>12334891
Have you ever had milk tea with boba? It seems pretty popular these days in some parts of the world. Green tea is always an option at that sort of place, so some people must enjoy green tea with milk. Not too sure about hot green tea with milk though, since that sort of milk tea is served cold with plenty of sugar.

>>12334891
Matcha does with boba. Other green teas, I can't suggest it.

>>12372333
>I haven't found any place that sells proper tea equipment without the 10000% markup.
Asian grocery stores usually sell loose leaf tea and the equipment at reasonable prices.

>>12334891
Green tea lattes are pretty good.