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Being young and adventurous, while in a Chinese shop today I picked up some new teas; a bulk packaged keemun, pressed pellets of Pu-erh, and pressed pellets of oolong, none of which had any other information about them.
So far, the pressed pellet of Pu-erh patently puts pleasure passed my pallet. The oolong was insipid when sipped, and I'm about to try the keemun. It's steeping now.
Astra... I saw Houjicha in the Japanese import store today! Its name was written in Roman letters and in Japanese Hiragana characters, the first beginning with the 'H' sound, rather than the 'OO' sound one one see in the name Uji. Also, Uji would be written in Kanji, the Chinese characters taken for use by the Japanese, and that was NOT the case on this box of tea. The Hiragana characters would make me pronounce it as Ha-O-U-ji cha, rather than Hoo-ji cha. The box was sitting between a box of Sencha and a box of Bancha, all three by the same company.
Edit: The keemun is OK, but just. Nothing to write home about, and not one to be repurchased.
Stitchawl
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