How to Choose Green Tea by Eye

How to Choose Green Tea by Eye - CHALLENGE

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5 жыл бұрын

Choosing the best Green tea for taste and health by the appearance of the leaves can be a challenge. I teach you what visual quality markers to look for to select the best Green tea.
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Finding the best loose leaf tea or matcha needs a little tea knowledge. In this Tea Challenge, I guess the type of Green tea by looking at the dry leaves and then I taste the teas to figure out if they are from the Mei Leaf tea selection.
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@thebowlzack 5 жыл бұрын

What is crazy is that viewership is all dependent on the niche. Your information, demeanor, articulation, and video quality are top of the line. With this much time on KZfaq and consistent quality, videos on any other genre and you would have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. However I am glad someone can properly excite others in this Niche genre of tea. Keep up the good work.

@gomcocramp 5 жыл бұрын

not true. there are millions of tea drinkers out there, it's certainly not a niche

@Darkestdarkify 2 жыл бұрын

@@gomcocramp agreed. Most consumed beverage behind only water.

@w.o.jackson8432 2 жыл бұрын

@@gomcocramp The amount of people in the western online tea community that actually cares about this level of detail is probably in the tens of thousands. It's extremely niche.

@hugo.8626 5 жыл бұрын

you know you've reached a special level of geekyness when you call a tea wild. loved it 😋

@matthiashubner1657 5 жыл бұрын

When I purchase tea from you tea shop I do not need a guide. I completely trust you ! Thank you for your great taste! Every single tea I ever purchased was a revelation!

@mesquitemoss 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize y'all sell tea as well as teach about it and I've been poking around on y'all's website and I gotta say thank you for the honesty and information y'all provide both here and on the site. I really appreciate it.

@WanderingVeteran 5 жыл бұрын

This is a delicious, but difficult challenge. It is so practicial, when not buying person. This recording is out the park.

@xZodax 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Don, small nitpicking, its not "fukumushi" but "fukamushi" (深蒸し), from "fukai" (深い, deep). ;) Very informative video as always! Thank you!

@zakerymizell8838 5 жыл бұрын

I am suddenly very interested in Nepalese green tea! Sounded tastey. Would be fun to source some unique/weird high quality teas

@joev.8543 5 жыл бұрын

Love the format and content of this particular video. Would love to see more similar videos with other classes of tea. Keep it up, always appreciated

@gone4204 5 жыл бұрын

Always the best knowledge giving!!! I have learned so much !! Thanks Don 👍👍👍

@douchebag3323 5 жыл бұрын

Helpful! I received a Chinese tea as a business gift, but can't read the packaging. I have been brewing it by instinct, and I really like it. I now am fairly sure it's a long jing.

@andrei-silviusontu9911 5 жыл бұрын

Another great one Don, thank you and keep them coming! :D

@adamsvetlik6636 5 жыл бұрын

Focus, sooon! :D Thanks for another great video.

@Magnificent_Mobius 5 жыл бұрын

Please start selling the Nepalese green tea it looked really good!

@joetexas1546 5 жыл бұрын

Did not learn a whole lot-yet I did. This video is Fantastic. Drinking green tea today for the first time in quite a while because of this! I want some of that Nepali stuff! Thanks and Cheers.

@maciej6293 5 жыл бұрын

I bought it from onecupoftea.pl, a couple who travel to Nepal and discovered the Everest tea estate. But it's advertised as black tea, not green tea, although I believe it's the same tea Don tried, as it has exactly the same aroma/flavor profile Don is talking about here. I really love it and their Born In Flames black tea as well.

@jang.1185 5 жыл бұрын

Hah, I watched the whole the video and forgot that I was boiling Bai Mu Dan 2010 in the kitchen (used leaves after the session). :D After 40 min there was only about 50 ml remaining :D I tasted it and I can say it has really thick texture. Like condensed milk :) Interesting... Now I hope that it won't kill me :D

@rincosmerta 5 жыл бұрын

Really really great video and idea. You should do this with all the tea types. White, yellow, oolongs, black, sheng and shu!

@sexysupportgroup345 5 жыл бұрын

Cant get enough about green tea Videos :) well done

@ongoingmartin 5 жыл бұрын

I keep going back to 20:20 for the lols. Glad I'm not the only one who reacts to teas like this. XD

@joetexas1546 5 жыл бұрын

RATATOUILLE 🤪

@assamteabyvinay 3 жыл бұрын

I am also an tea entrepreneur here in assam and runs my Hindi tea KZfaq channel.... But you are impressive...

@supersonicyou 5 жыл бұрын

lol, I think it's the first time that a part of the video is not in focus. You always worry abt it and now it actually happend :D surprisingly interesting video though, I enjoyed it.

@StayHomeEatGreat 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think about NUMI gunpowder green tea? I just bought my first bag of loose leaf from them.

@5Komma5 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting video. I ordered from you after my tee shop sold me a batch of Kabusecha that smells like it has been stored next to a sewer pipe. The smell is not noticeable when dry but hits me once wet. Totally ruins the experience. Your tee arrives next week. Can't wait!

@Lau_rao 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀

@muneerch3939 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Plz suggest me to select green tea for tea bag, blend Thank you

@WaruiTanuki 5 жыл бұрын

What everybody else said, plus I like your bowl.

@moritzkohler9214 5 жыл бұрын

holy shit, how bad i needed this. thx don

@dnmotley 5 жыл бұрын

Your Nepalese sample is intriguing. From a quick check on Wikipedia, I learned that vasantha means spring, so what you have there seems to be a first-flush oolong. Also, is it possible that those odd bits are not stem but buds?

@FlandraLabs 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing challenge! That Nepalese one was hard, I thought it looked like a Malaysian or Thai oolong :/

@dhptea 5 жыл бұрын

in this video: choosing high qualiteas edit: omg,, your envelopes have little gaiwans on them that’s adorable

@Eleolune696 5 жыл бұрын

Well that nepalese tea was a surprise. Was pretty sure it would be a let-down.

@SkullDude13 5 жыл бұрын

Hmm... the only one I couldn't guess was the Lu An Gua Pian. Now I know what to try next time.

@vasilileung2204 5 жыл бұрын

You guessed that odd one as well? Wow

@SkullDude13 5 жыл бұрын

You mean the nepalese tea? Sometimes I drink tea from Nepal so it was familiar.

@vasilileung2204 5 жыл бұрын

Ragzaroth - yeah haha that’s really odd for a green tea. That and the gua pian I didn’t get

@jacktheripperVII 5 жыл бұрын

I'm very interested in that Nepalese tea

@maciej6293 5 жыл бұрын

@jacktheripperVII 5 жыл бұрын

@@maciej6293 thanks will check it out

@shmmoon 5 жыл бұрын

off topic, but that's a beautiful knife (letter opener?). Details would be appreciated :)

@tv82832 5 жыл бұрын

That “letter opener” is actually a tea pick for teas that are compressed into tea ‘cakes’. Mainly Pu Erh teas, but white teas are also pressed into cakes. Hope this helps 😃.

@maciej6293 5 жыл бұрын

Don, are you sure the Nepalese tea is really a green tea? Or did Celine trap you here? Because I've got this Nepal Vasanta and it looks and tastes identical to your description and I bought it from a seller that advertises it as black tea. It's a delicious tea by the way and worth selling.

@ilyakolmanovsky 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this information; onecupoftea seem to have several Nepalese teas, which one exactly did you get?

@paragburman 2 жыл бұрын

Why does he throw away d 1st brew.... And only drink the 2nd?

@rubberducky5383 5 жыл бұрын

*Liu, lol Celine had it right

@zglrd8938 3 жыл бұрын

25:00 wait i have this tea

@bethdahl3741 5 жыл бұрын

...But what is that fish figurine thing he poured tea over?

@miguelhoyospena6541 5 жыл бұрын

Oleanna Thomson Its a Tea pet. A tradicional element in the Gong Fu Cha (chinesse tea ceremony).

@bethdahl3741 5 жыл бұрын

@@miguelhoyospena6541 Thank you for answering! That's really cool; the more you know ^_^

@ItsMisterEp 5 жыл бұрын

Did you guys upgrade your computer or camera? up to 4k now!

@Ayush_28 4 жыл бұрын

Please make short videos

@vasilileung2204 5 жыл бұрын

green tea is boring Edit after watching till the end: that bi luo chun is gorgeous That Nepalese one should just be called an “aspiring green tea”

@tv82832 5 жыл бұрын

Vasili Leung - Is there a reason you think green tea is boring? Because i don’t think green tea is boring, there are alot of diferrent green teas out there and i’m always excited to try them. So can you please explain further? And i also don’t think you’re uneducated about green by the way you talk.

@vasilileung2204 5 жыл бұрын

Timo I AM uneducated about green tea. And the reason for that is I generally find it boring as there isn’t much variation in them as let say oolong. To me, all great green tea taste similar, and all lower grade green tea taste similar. Not so with oolong. Great Formosa oolong from Alishan is different to great Tung Ting, and great tiekuanyin is different to great Dancong. You get my drift? The only time I had an outstanding green tea and I still think about it today is a biluochun a friend brought me when he was in Nanking. Most recently I returned from China and I purchased the most expensive green tea in the shop-¥100RMB per 500g Xinyang Maojian from Henan province. Bit of a disappointment. I take it to the office and drink it as a work tea. So my thinking of green tea being boring comes from my lack of understanding of green tea, which in turn comes from my attention mainly focused on Oolongs. Maybe it’s time I should explore green tea more