subtle tea

[redbird]

One of the teas I picked up in Montreal is mulberry-scented ("mure sauvage", but I'm not at all convinced there's a significant difference between wild and domestic mulberry). I'd been happily drinking the orange and the jasmine dragon (green), and ignoring the mulberry.

I just made a cup of the mulberry. My verdict is "eh". It's tea, the mulberry is nothing special. It might work better black, but I prefer my black teas with milk and sugar.

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Montreal

[mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com]

My family and I will be visiting Montreal over July 4th weekend. Could you tell me a bit about the place? I've never been. (We're going to see a Dream Theater and Queensryche concert).

Re: Montreal

[redbird]

What I can tell you is that there are lots of odd little restaurants; that even a minimal reading knowledge of French will help; the Metro is good; I recommend the Biodome. Basically, I go and hang out with rysmiel, papersky, and zorinth, and do random tourist stuff in between sitting around and talking.

It's a good city for walking. I posted some about my trips in previous entries.

Pen geeking

[maellenkleth]

And here all these years I thought that were blackberries. Go figure...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I found a really nice roasted tea yesterday, here in Japan. I'm going to bring home a bunch of it. I wonder how long it will last before going bad. How long does tea last?

B

Re: Pen geeking

[redbird]

You're probably right--to call my French "poor" would be flattering it. But what has this to do with pens?

urkkkk

[maellenkleth]

sorry - didn't notice that the darned 'notes' thingie has a subject line as well. I really like your daily ideas last month, and think that I will give it a try as well...

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Ages. Shops will usually say six months to a year in a sealed tin, but I have had tea last up to five years (in a sealed tin) with very little diminution of flavour.

To put this another way: it's better when it's fresh, but once it isn't fresh, it keeps on being "just fine" for a long time.

Japanese teas in particular seem to last very well. I've had Sencha last two years, but that was when I bought a lot and then forgot I had it.

Mmm, Sencha, I think I'll put the kettle on.

*ting*!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

That would be the sound of me, very belatedly, getting the pun in the Subject line.