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Anyone else into it?

It's Japanese green tea, Bancha the lower grade of Sencha, mixed with roasted brown rice.

Quite tasty and better than general green tea.

 

The lass won't drink anything other than peppermint tea, what's your cha?

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Love my coffee but Im trying to cut down and only have maybe 2 a day now. Coffee usually my first two cups in a day. After that I do like Green Tea. At the min the box on my desk is Green Tea, Lemongrass & Ginger. Quite partial to Earl Grey as well.

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I like a cup of Earl Grey, but it's generally tea for me

 

FYP.

 

(Seriously though - I like a peppermint or camomile tea as much as the next man, as long as he's a screaming bender or Brock :D, but when did we reach the point where tea is called "English Breakfast"? I blame the Islams.)

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I thought it was only called that in hotel buffets! :D

 

I don't really drink anything other than normal tea or coffee. Have had Earl Grey before when the normal tea has ran out because my Dad drinks it occasionally. That's about it.

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There is a chain of tea shops over here called T2 and I use to buy my genmaicha from there until I realised I could buy the same thing for $7 at a Japanese grocer instead of $30.

Anyway they in the name of all things colonial imitating old blighty sell Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne Breakfast varieties ffs.

Chances are only the packaging is different.

btw Earl Grey tastes wrong.

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I like a cup of Earl Grey, but it's generally tea for me

 

FYP.

 

(Seriously though - I like a peppermint or camomile tea as much as the next man, as long as he's a screaming bender or Brock :rimshot:, but when did we reach the point where tea is called "English Breakfast"? I blame the Islams.)

:D it'd be like just calling Rioja red wine though, or Bells "Whisky" or Fosters "weak as piss puffs lager"

 

it's still a "type" of tea, isn't it? and as this thread is about which type of tea people like, I'm not going to be then knobhead who says "Tea"

 

so pipe down Martin or I won't buy you a pint on Wednesday!

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I like a cup of Earl Grey, but it's generally tea for me

 

FYP.

 

(Seriously though - I like a peppermint or camomile tea as much as the next man, as long as he's a screaming bender or Brock :rimshot: , but when did we reach the point where tea is called "English Breakfast"? I blame the Islams.)

:D it'd be like just calling Rioja red wine though, or Bells "Whisky" or Fosters "weak as piss puffs lager"

 

it's still a "type" of tea, isn't it? and as this thread is about which type of tea people like, I'm not going to be then knobhead who says "Tea"

 

so pipe down Martin or I won't buy you a pint on Wednesday!

 

If we end up in a grotty dive in New Cross, you'll feel ashamed not to. :)

 

I do take your point (and it feels spiffing up my slot), of course it's just another type of tea really - it's just there's clearly such a thing as a British/English cuppa and for me it falls into the same category as "gravy granules" meaning Bisto or "beans" meaning Heinz, for all there's multiple brands competing for the same accolade. Ultimately, if you said "a cup of tea" to anyone from these sceptr'd isles, they'd automatically think, assume and know you were talking about "English Breakfast".

 

Please buy me alkiehol though? Please Unky Dave?

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I like to drink matcha. Had a voucher for the stuff when I ordered from Teapigs and thought I'd give it a try.

 

I love green tea in general though, especially the stuff we were drinking in morrocco. Have always been meaning to recreate it for myself but haven't as of yet. Trip to Sainsbury's tomorrow methinks.

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If we end up in a grotty dive in New Cross, you'll feel ashamed not to. :D

 

I do take your point (and it feels spiffing up my slot), of course it's just another type of tea really - it's just there's clearly such a thing as a British/English cuppa and for me it falls into the same category as "gravy granules" meaning Bisto or "beans" meaning Heinz, for all there's multiple brands competing for the same accolade. Ultimately, if you said "a cup of tea" to anyone from these sceptr'd isles, they'd automatically think, assume and know you were talking about "English Breakfast".

 

Please buy me alkiehol though? Please Unky Dave?

 

Speaking of tomorrow, where do you fancy round Ldn Bridge? Tom's keen but lives in Hackney now, which makes anywhere particularly south a bit of a ballache. Unless you fancy doing the Bond St/Cock and Lion thing? :rimshot:

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If we end up in a grotty dive in New Cross, you'll feel ashamed not to. :D

 

I do take your point (and it feels spiffing up my slot), of course it's just another type of tea really - it's just there's clearly such a thing as a British/English cuppa and for me it falls into the same category as "gravy granules" meaning Bisto or "beans" meaning Heinz, for all there's multiple brands competing for the same accolade. Ultimately, if you said "a cup of tea" to anyone from these sceptr'd isles, they'd automatically think, assume and know you were talking about "English Breakfast".

 

Please buy me alkiehol though? Please Unky Dave?

 

Speaking of tomorrow, where do you fancy round Ldn Bridge? Tom's keen but lives in Hackney now, which makes anywhere particularly south a bit of a ballache. Unless you fancy doing the Bond St/Cock and Lion thing? :)

 

So David, basically you're offering Martin some Cock in my japanese tea thread :rimshot:

Stop it and go have a cup of English Breakfast.

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:D

 

If Tom's up for it, Bond Street is fine. If it's just you and me, head for London Bridge and we'll pub-surf from there. Will assume the former until further notice though.

 

My ex missus lives around the corner near Shad Thames if you want to stop in for a cuppa? :rimshot:

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:D

 

If Tom's up for it, Bond Street is fine. If it's just you and me, head for London Bridge and we'll pub-surf from there. Will assume the former until further notice though.

Aye, Bond St is best I reckon.

 

and Sammy even if I offered Meenzer a cup of lapsang souchong seasoned with gold and infused with the essence of enlightment in exhange for a quick pokey bum gobble, I doubt he'd oblige.

 

He knows where I've been, y'see

 

what does your ex-missus look like?

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:D

 

If Tom's up for it, Bond Street is fine. If it's just you and me, head for London Bridge and we'll pub-surf from there. Will assume the former until further notice though.

Aye, Bond St is best I reckon.

 

and Sammy even if I offered Meenzer a cup of lapsang souchong seasoned with gold and infused with the essence of enlightment in exhange for a quick pokey bum gobble, I doubt he'd oblige.

 

He knows where I've been, y'see

 

what does your ex-missus look like?

 

Yeah true, one can tell from Meenzer's love of Tom Waits he has decent taste in men, so that would make you well (un)fucked.

 

Why David, do you know an Australian lass who lives around that area?

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:rimshot:

 

If Tom's up for it, Bond Street is fine. If it's just you and me, head for London Bridge and we'll pub-surf from there. Will assume the former until further notice though.

Aye, Bond St is best I reckon.

 

and Sammy even if I offered Meenzer a cup of lapsang souchong seasoned with gold and infused with the essence of enlightment in exhange for a quick pokey bum gobble, I doubt he'd oblige.

 

He knows where I've been, y'see

 

what does your ex-missus look like?

 

Yeah true, one can tell from Meenzer's love of Tom Waits he has decent taste in men, so that would make you well (un)fucked.

 

Why David, do you know an Australian lass who lives around that area?

No, but I was thinking that I might want to? :D

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:rimshot:

 

If Tom's up for it, Bond Street is fine. If it's just you and me, head for London Bridge and we'll pub-surf from there. Will assume the former until further notice though.

Aye, Bond St is best I reckon.

 

and Sammy even if I offered Meenzer a cup of lapsang souchong seasoned with gold and infused with the essence of enlightment in exhange for a quick pokey bum gobble, I doubt he'd oblige.

 

He knows where I've been, y'see

 

what does your ex-missus look like?

 

Yeah true, one can tell from Meenzer's love of Tom Waits he has decent taste in men, so that would make you well (un)fucked.

 

Why David, do you know an Australian lass who lives around that area?

No, but I was thinking that I might want to? :D

 

Oh the snakehips emoticon. I hope your lass doesn't read this board. :)

To answer your question; short, fit and a corporate slave who once wished she was a suicide girl and now sells her soul for the all important pound.

No doubt she sounds like Kylie, so you should be able to pick her down the booza.

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:rimshot:

 

If Tom's up for it, Bond Street is fine. If it's just you and me, head for London Bridge and we'll pub-surf from there. Will assume the former until further notice though.

Aye, Bond St is best I reckon.

 

and Sammy even if I offered Meenzer a cup of lapsang souchong seasoned with gold and infused with the essence of enlightment in exhange for a quick pokey bum gobble, I doubt he'd oblige.

 

He knows where I've been, y'see

 

what does your ex-missus look like?

 

Yeah true, one can tell from Meenzer's love of Tom Waits he has decent taste in men, so that would make you well (un)fucked.

 

Why David, do you know an Australian lass who lives around that area?

No, but I was thinking that I might want to? :D

 

Oh the snakehips emoticon. I hope your lass doesn't read this board. :)

To answer your question; short, fit and a corporate slave who once wished she was a suicide girl and now sells her soul for the all important pound.

No doubt she sounds like Kylie, so you should be able to pick her down the booza.

 

Just call me Ludacris :shades:

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