[Fauxreal]

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

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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.

[Serena Yuy]

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

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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.

[Serena Yuy]

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.

[Hex]

I make my own teas quite often and write them down in a journal if I like how they turned out. If anyone is interested perhaps tomorrow I will rummage through and pick out a few favorites and post it on here for other teaball or tea infuser users to try out owo

[MayChan]

I use to work in a tea shop, and they have a variety of tea in clear jars. Some of them smelled very very fruity and nice. Though I do not like drinking tea at all.

[Serena Yuy]

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.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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.

[Shohnightingale]

my favorite tea come from a small shop in FT. Worth Texas called the spice exchange they have the best empereor's chi tea

little side note

Did you know chi tea has black pepper and licorice root?

[Vicious Whisper]

Making your own tea sounds crazy to me!

[Shohnightingale]

it isn't crazy, its rather fun, my cousin and i make tea all the time, shes a herbologist and has full flavored and rich ingredents on hand, we love rose& hibiscus tea

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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.

[Shohnightingale]

oRlY? thats cool that the tea varies from place to place but its equally annoying because they don't taste the same and you might like it from one place and hate it from another

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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

[Shohnightingale]

i suppose thats true but i have never met a chocolate cookie that i haven't liked