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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Often
Only in warm weather
Usually
THAT is the norm! 
The only constant is that I drink a lot of tea every day. A day without tea is like a day without air to breath. A fairly consistent constant is that I drink black teas. While I drink green tea almost every day at lunch in local restaurants, I immediately rush to somewhere that I can rinse my palate with iced black tea, i.e. Starbucks or McDonalds afterwords, then have more hot tea when I get back home later in the day.
Perhaps the green teas are just to ubiquitous? I don't know. They just don't do anything for me. At least oolongs have a bit of a kick to them, especially my favorite, Ti Kwan Yin, what you might know as Iron Goddess of Mercy. Especially in a really large tankard! 
Stitchawl |
thank you for sharing. I may focus better now.
That is exactly the 30 euro/100 gr that I got Thursday by the small lady in the tea shop (she insisted that I get only 50 gr. She obviously wants me to come back with my instinctive prudence on hold, relented by her generosity and wisdom so that she can unload on me her more expensive stuff and I get hooked on it, but I am not a snob. I like them when they know their trade). Autumn. She said that it was better than the spring one. But I am on greens now and I want to stay here at least for a week to let my flavor sensitivity to adjust to the fainter sensations. Than Oolong and blacks again. Or not. Who knows. Not only la donna is mobile ...
By the way. I do not go to oriental restaurants since a long long time, for reasons that will stay under cover, so I do not remember about the tea they serve, in particular if the teapot is with the leaves inside or not. Do you mind telling me?