Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "How Japanese Green Tea is Made" video.

  1. Oh, also love genmaicha. Super hard to find here, very specific japanese import shops will have only sometimes. I just drank my last cuppa last week. xD Gonna have to hunt for more. But yeah, great stuff. You know, in the past I really didn't like green tea much. I think I tasted some stuff that you could find in local markets here, it didn't taste great, they mixed it with local ingredients and whatnot, so it really didn't appeal to me. But when I went to Japan back in... I think around 2008, I tasted it again from some of the vending machines, and it surprised me how different it was from the stuff I had tasted before. Very light, not bitter, great as a hot beverage to warm the body. And then I started tasting several varieties. Yeah... definitely, nothing like a good genmaicha. I also love that lemon tea that you can find in any vending machine. xD But I kinda came to appreciate different varieties with different types of food. Also sweets, it goes so damn well with all sorts of sweets. xD Oh, you know one other thing that I loved that surprised me too? Ochazuke! Damn, it's so good... I had no idea the thing would be so flavorful just by pouring green tea on it. xD The cheap packaged stuff you can find in kombinis, it brings out a flavor out from the rice that is kinda shocking at first. xD So good. Awesome video as always... I had seen these tea farms before in other videos and photos, but they left me curious on how the entire processing goes. Very interesting stuff, looks like a whole lot of hard work too. Kudos to the couple working hard to spread the culture, it really is worth all that. I don't even consider the medicinal stuff all that much, I just like the taste. xD It all also makes sense how imported japanese tea tastes so different from local stuff or stuff made in other countries... I thought I was kinda biased, perhaps not so much learning the complex process they employ. I tried brazilian stuff, english stuff, american... something always seems kinda off - well, after you tasted the japanese stuff. xD
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