jasmine downy pearls

The "Jasmine downy pearls" tea I ordered recently from McNulty's is good, which is a relief.

I'd enjoyed a different company (Porto Rico)'s jasmine pearl tea, but it was out of stock the last couple of times we were ordering other things from Porto Rico. And I'd been disappointed by the McNulty's non-jasmine downy pearls I ordered last time, enough so that I threw the rest of the bag away after making tea from them once.

But I decided to risk the money (the smallest amount I could order was a quarter pound), because there are days I want a not-very-caffeinated hot drink that tastes more like tea than any of the herbal teas I like. I usually drink black tea, either Assam, Darjeeling, or an Irish breakfast or English breakfast blend, and this is green tea, but it is tea, which matters sometimes.

(When we lived in New York I got jasmine pearl tea from Ten Ren, which was just north of Canal Street; I haven't found anywhere in Boston that carries it.)