I like PG Tips - strong with a splash of milk

or Bubble Tea when in Chinatown... and love Black Russian tea too. 

My house is full of very expensive and rare tea, handmade teapots, tetsubin and tea ceremony accessories, both Chinese and Japanese, as my deceased husband was a tea lover.

See the Blind Baker? The way Soo Lin Yao takes care of the teapots and all? Polish them, place them on a kind of wooden tray etc etc? Well, he did exactly the same with his.

And the tea isn't tea you find in little bags, or perfumed tea, it's "pure" tea, from different types: wulong, pu-erh, bao zhong...etc (or, sencha, macha , genmaicha... the japanese ones)

Some are more than 30 years and cost a fortune, several euros each gram.

He had amazingly beautiful handmade Japanese bowls with beautiful colours, or a 500€ tetsubin (it's a handmade japanese cast iron kettle) , a dozen of little chinese clay teapots, handmade cups...

The worst thing is that I only drink a few teas myself (mostly wulong ones) and I hate pu-erh while it was his favourite type of tea so he had many of them, for thousands of euros, and I can't even tell their name of age as it is written in Chinese, and I can't recognize them, I'm far from being the "expert" he was...

Anyway, I could never get rid of them...

And the tea accessories are so beautiful... Aww...

I like white, green and black teas, but I don't like the ones that smell (and taste) like perfume.  My friend's favorite tea is jasmine, and I can't stand it.  I love english breakfast and scottish breakfast, white teas of all kinds (but no mint), and green tea and matcha (not the same thing).  I try to buy loose leaf, because I think you get more flavor that way, but I usually drink my breakfast teas from bags (I do have some excellent loose-leaf earl grey, though).

I have changed from ordinary tea or coffee first thing in the morning to: Raspberry and Echinacea tea. It tastes nice and I am sure it helped me fight off a nasty sore throat really quickly last week. Everyone else has been struck down far worse!

Hello everyone! It is just under a month before we leave for Europe! Tea is going to be a big thing for me now for two reasons: 1. I am sure I will not like coffee in Europe. I drink very weak coffee. According to my husband it is not much more than dirty dish water! LOL 
2. I have quit smoking and frankly a cup of coffee (regardless of strength) seems rather pointless without a smoke, so I have quit coffee as well I guess.

For me tea should be sweet if it is flavored or unsweatened if it is like green tea, or black tea or white tea without added flavor such as lemon, or fruity or whatever.

New question that is related - sort of. I have recently begun juicing. (That is extracting the juice out of fruits and veggies - awful looking stuff actually) Can you get that sort of thing easily when visiting? I have become kind of addicted. This is the first time in my life that I have actually felt an abundance of energy and I would rather not go without. Somehow I don't think packing my juicer would work very well! LOL

I am in love with Chai Latte... I have a cocoa one and a Lemon grass with ginger. Gorgeous!

But I also love green tea with lemon. I try to stay away from black tea as I don't like the after taste of it and it stains the cups too...
I can't find it anymore but I used to buy chamomile tea with different tastes... that was gorgeous!


I don't like my tea too strong though... for some reason. I always insist on making my own brew.