I am introducing some seasonal tea and food with representing the essence of Japanese culture.
– Aya Yoshida –
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BLOG #41: Tea of the season – by Aya Yoshida
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BLOG #40: Matcha and tea regions of Japan
About the tea regions of Matcha and how to recognize good quality matcha and tea.
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BLOG #31: How to recognize high quality matcha?
There are many different types and qualities of matcha on the market. We regularly get the question how you now know what is and is not a good quality matcha. There are several factors that determine the quality of matcha and how you recognize the quality. In this blog we zoom in on this. As …
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BLOG #3: The benefits of green tea…
In this blog, we want to share what we have discovered in the past six months about green tea. We are open now more than four months with our teabar in The Hague and several customers are coming back with positive messages about what green tea is doing with them. You can think of health …
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BLOG #12: We’re waiting for the new first flush Matcha!
At the moment we are waiting for the new first flush Matcha ceremonial grade A. We have contact with our teafarmers in Japan and we expect the new Matcha at the end of July / beginning of August. In this blog you can read more about the proces of the first flush Matcha A. At the …
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BLOG #8: More about first flush green tea…
The Tea Competition in Japan requires the support of many people working together. It sustains the tea industry, because the purpose of the tea competition is to improve Japanese tea agricultural and manufacturing techniques. It requires organizational strength, steering strength, judging technical strength, and so on at a high level to convene the tea competition …
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BLOG #7: Bakken en koken met Matcha thee
Sorry, this part of the website is only available in Dutch For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Bakken met Matcha? In dit blog gaan we wat dieper in op het bakken en koken met Matcha thee. …
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BLOG #6: Green iced tea or beer… The thirstquenchers!
A while ago, we have tried an ice tea brewer at Dok Cookware in The Hague. The ice tea brewer looks pretty cool with the glass bowl and special ice can (see the photo below).We had brought a bag of our Sencha and a coffee- and teaspecialist from Dok made a Sencha green iced tea. This he did …
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BLOG #5: Meeting with our businesspartners and teafarmers from Japan
Our tea businesspartners came over from Japan last week. Last Friday (15-4) we met them in The Hague. We have showed them our teabar. They were very excited and immediately started taking pictures of the shop and of course we took a picture together. They liked to see how we show the Japanese green teas in our teabar. …
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BLOG #4: Green tea from Japan – GRN TEA FRM JPN
Regularly people ask us: Why did you choose specifically green tea from JAPAN? In previous blogs, it has become more clear why green tea has our preference; this is the purest tea (no or very minimal fermentation and healthy substances stay in the leaves) and it is simply delicious to drink 😉 But why Japanese tea? We …
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