Ok, enough gangasta talk from this old woman, and it's time to get mellow. It is time to revive from 'the party' and move into more ethereal pleasures and so what do I drink now, as the first day of 2017 ends? What's the best thing to feel on your lips as day becomes night and I need something of the highest quality to make me feel renewed? I will tell you now, you lucky, lucky bastards. Smacha's Mao Feng.
I don't drink a lot of greens these days, but when I do? Yeah, this is the kind I like and Smacha's Mao Feng is their best selling green tea for very good reason.
I follow their directions of four grams but use a smaller vessel, a 70 ml gaiwan, and the water temp I use starts at 190f and cools accordingly from steep to steep.
The smell itself reminds me that life renews itself, that things grow and rivers flow, and time slows, and a bunch of other rhyming idioms, all true.
It is a thinking woman's tea, and one to savor.
