In this first blog we will talk about the green tea powder: MATCHA. This green tea comes from Japan, where it is already drunk for centuries, especially during Japanese tea ceremonies. In New York City is a real MatchaBar where they do all kind of things with this green powder tea. Matcha begins to get …
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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 #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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BLOG #2: Japanese teaware – Special Edition by HUG THE TEA
HUG THE TEA is a coming soon with a new collection Japanese tea ware. Currently the production of the teapots and cups is in progress in Japan. Final this Spring, the collection will be online in our webshop and it will be also available in the HUG THE TEA shop in the Hague, the Netherlands. All of the Japanese …
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