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I like Zhi Tea (https://www.zhitea.com) myself. You can even go to their store if you're in/near Austin. They also field questions and have videos, so it's nice if you're a tea noob like me. I love the Vanilla rose and golden lily oolong. There's something charming about watching rose buds unfurl in hot water. Working on finding a green I really like. So far the mint green tea is working best for me. And for some reason I can practically never get white tea to work out for me. :/ I even use a timer and thermometer/water boiler I can set. The OP was nice!
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Has anyone in the US ordered from T2? A friend and I were curious about some of their flavors, but I didn't want to get customs on my case.
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May 27, 2012 05:13
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I really like some of their blends, especially the chocolate ones. But I'll see if there's something closer.
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May 29, 2012 02:32
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For what it's worth, I've found some disposable tea bags (though I can usually reuse them at least a couple of times with the same tea) that I can use with loose leaf tea. It's pretty handy for those days I'm zonked or whatever.
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Aug 14, 2012 03:18
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I use a Zojirushi water boiler. It's really nice and I can set the temperature or set it to boil later. It also works for ramen noodles and anything I need that needs boiling water. The settings are 208F, 195F, 175F and 140F. You can also dispense at 212F if you pay attention to it. Though, Zojirushi stuff tends to be a little pricey. But it's held up for about 3 years and works great. I've been trying to find a decent thermos/travel mug, myself. I sort of like how the Timolinos look and having a secret stash for leaves/a tea bag looks awesome. What do folks use to lug tea around to work with them?
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Jun 2, 2013 22:25
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Sirotan posted:Is it this one: http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-CD-...d=IHHNS71GMZC0I ? My office is moving to a new, bigger building and I decided to buy myself a boiler to keep at work since I drink so much tea. Wanted to buy one of these for home a couple years back but didn't really want/need something that stayed on 24/7. Gonna buy this one once we move because it looks fab and also Zojirushi is the best. Yup! That's the one. Works like a champ and doesn't seem to mind me leaving it on a few hours or setting it to boil and have hot water by the time I'm home for work. I just clean it out with citric acid or vinegar once in awhile (Our water is so hard, ugh). I got mine a bit cheaper for being a display model, but it's been great. I like using it for tea, noodles and fast hot water. A little pricey, but I like it lots.
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Jun 3, 2013 07:48
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DurianGray posted:I don't know if this really affects anyone here or not, but Adagio just got a Cease and Desist from Warner Brothers over all the Harry Potter themed 'fandom blends' on the website. They're encouraging people to rename and change the artworks on the effected blends. The fandom blends had some interesting flavors, but yeah. I can't say I'm surprised.
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Jul 24, 2013 06:14
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milpreve posted:Don't throw things at me. Teavana has a new apple cider tea made with rooibos that is fabulous. I love apple cider teas, but most have a strong cinnamon extract/chemically taste. This one doesn't, and I will buy a pound of it as soon as I can afford it. It's $9/2 oz. It's seriously delicious, and supposed to be a part if their regular tea wall, but I wouldn't be surprised if they retired it before next summer to make way for more seasonal drinks. They have samples in the store of it, and it's $3 for a hot cup to go. I know, most of Teavana is meh or crap, but try this. Better than a PSL (Starbucks pumpkin spice latte) any day! There's nothing wrong with liking something Teavana has. The bad part is when you buy into them and insist on a hojillion dollar tea pot otherwise your tea will taste like crap and 3 monks will come personally down the side of a mountain to pour the tea over your head.
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Sep 23, 2013 11:01
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Battle Pigeon posted:I bought some Milky Oolong/Jin Xuan (?) tea yesterday. It's probably a flavoured rather than natural version but I'm not sure how to tell. How long can I keep the leaves for re-brewing before it's not worth it? I actually ordered from them on the first, and won a box of free tea. I like them quite a lot! It's good quality tea, though I've only tried the mint, chai, chocolate tea, and winter spiced (hooray samplers). Working on the chili chai now. The regular chai is kind of subdued for a chai, I think, but the others have been pretty intense and good quality. Then again, I like medium-strong teas. You get free samples if you order online.
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Nov 7, 2013 17:45
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Yeah, they definitely have good customer service. I've ordered once and it came just fine. I'll make a note of that, though and give preparing chai that way a shot. Thankfully, I only ordered samples since I am uncertain on buying a whole box or bag of stuff I might not like. I like tea from Zhi Tea and DavidsTea when I was in the US, and it's fairly similar. The winter spiced is one of my favorites and chocolate.
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Nov 7, 2013 19:17
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... Assam and chocolate are so awesome together. Goodbye, soda. I like to put some in a thermos and take it with me for long lectures.
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Dec 6, 2013 18:48
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Just wanted to post about the great customer service experience I had with Davids. I bought like 100g of their new tea Mint to Be the other week based on the fact that it seemed to be made entirely of ingredients I had tried before in their other tea- however, it was awful, and smelled strongly of... not coconut or mint, but an artificial smell that turned my stomach. I sent an email to Davids asking for a list of which natural ingredients were added to it (cream, butterscotch, white chocolate mousse... what?) and which other teas contained those ingredients so I could avoid them. I really liked their red velvet tea, which was black. The orange and chocolate puerh was pretty awesome if you like a stronger orange and chocolate taste and kind of a smokey tea.
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Jan 31, 2014 20:16
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http://yumasia.co.uk has some of the Zojirushi ones. I don't know much about their TUFF line.
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I like the teapig's chocolate assam. That, or the everyday brew is kind of nice to wake up to.
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