I like the "bubble" part ;), but I'm not as fond of the tea itself. My sister likes the smoothies you can get with the tapioca balls in them but I haven't tried them yet. We certainly don't have a shortage of bubble tea places around where I live. I hardly ever think to get one though. They're more expensive than I care to pay for right now.


My cream early grey tea that was sitting in a paper bag (the same kind of paper bag that held the suschong) tastes suspiciously smokey. -.-

I'm hoping my boyfriend will take us to the chinese food place that has the bubble tea coupon that I found. I really would like to get some.

I'm very much a tea person Q // Q i especially love the bitter teas too c:
My favorites are genmai cha and jasmine tea xD I also enjoy english style tea and love attending tea parties for those ; /// ; <3 I'm not so much of a fan of iced teas though > v < i love jasmine milk tea as well when it's in a boba drink XD

That an online place or do the have stores around somewhere?

I've been checking out some new tea stores but price plays a big role at the moment. I'm broke, but got a good stockpile of tea going when I had money so I can sustain myself. ;)

My sister in law got me another tea steeper the other day. This one is a rose that stands up in the teacup, with the steeper on the bottom. I have it sitting next to my ducky. :)

The double posts! They are attacking again!

Online stores are hardly a problem, seeing as people in trisphee can be anywhere. Locally I have a teavana an not so locally, but still accessible, I have a DavidsTea. Never heard of Adagio before.

I adore Teavana, but there aren't any close to me. For now though I found some catnip tea...and it's great for me XD

Given how many self identified neko we have on tris, I'm never sure if I'm supposed to take catnip tea seriously or not. :(

Omg I am soo happy. You know you're a major tea drinker when you get excited knowing that off of Stash's website, you can get a 30 tea bag box for just under $6 ^^

@Quiet, It's real, it's basically tea bags filled with catnip ;)

@Serena, That sounds interesting..I may have to go check that out :3

*wonders if this thread needs a party... a TEA party*

Tea party! *throws butterfly green tea in the air to celebrate* (Don't waste it! It's expesive!)

Heading out to the farm in a few hours and I have my tea stash with me this time! Haha!

Cold Stone has creamer flavours? Or is it another company that makes them? My mom likes their sweet ceam icecream, though I haven't tried it myself. I go for cotton candy :D, or blueberry. Not my favourite ice cream though. Too dense for me. I like my good old bucket stuff :).

oh - I'm not much for blueberry - but cotton candy... I dig that!

Fauxreal is Jubilee, yes? :)

I want to get to my tea store so I can get some Assam Banaspaty tea (assuming that they have it). I love the stuff, but am not sure where to get it. From a particular estate in India or so I've heard. I had some at high tea in the loval Fairmont hotel here, and some came in my tea sampler from DavidsTea that I got for Christmas. I ran out of it a while ago. Assam is my favourite for general black tea types.

First chance I'm getting, I'm ordering tea off a website that I found awhile back. That and getting a new tea ball.

I've never actually found a teaball that worked. I either use the individual bags that you fill yourself, or my novelty tea infusers (ducky and tea rose). They work pretty well. I guess the trick is not to overstuff and block the water from getting through.

Yeah, I actually liked the teaball I used to have. I guess it got lost when I moved. So, I need to get a new one.

I wish we had a tea shop near me for me to work at. Would be a much better job for me to deal with than working in fast food.

That's like me and coffee May. I used to work at a Tim Horton's. I rarely drink coffee, perhaps one cup every few monghts on average unless it's Sunday dinner at my dad's house. I love the smell of dry coffee grounds though. Some teas do smell a lot better than they taste, I've found that on occasion.

I've never really thought much of mixing teas, though the idea seems easy enough. I routinely mix yerba mate with an herbal tea to help my stomach since straight yerba gets to me a little. I was considering adding some of my lapsang suchong tea to a half bag of plain blac tea that I had to make up the remainder. Suchong for me is a bit much on it's own.

I had some stovetop chai at a fundraiser for an Indian school at my univeristy once (all you could eat pakoras and some neon orange sugar desert thing for $2!). It was make on a portable stovetop in milk with spices from any food store. I asked the girl there where she got the recipe. She said she just grabbed one of the net that looked good. Apparently chai tea is one of those things where many people have their own ways of making it.

I've had various tea bag chai and chai at Indian restaurants and does very. Some bag chai is heavy on the cinnamon and cloves. The chai I had at my dad's favourite Indian restaurant had lots of cardamom in it. I haven't encountered one with licorish in it (at least that I could taste). I usually default to Stash brand Chai for bags. It's sweeter than some and I like the cloves. The Double Spice Chai is a little overboard though. Stings my nose when I open the packet.

I imagine it's like how one chocolate chip cookie tastes different from another. People have their own recepies according to their own tastes.

I like chocolate cookies with the peanut butter chips...like Reese's cookies 8D

I like pastries more.

Pavlova! Does that count as a pastry? (Is more of cake person).

Depends on the sweet for me ^^

I'm happy, I may get some tea tomorrow ^^

Sigh. School work to do, some laundry, kinda tired feeling, and usual daily woes. It's a special tea day. :). Have my shimmering black tea my friend gave me for my birthday. And life goes on.