... first an interesting website for anyone interested...
www.maiko.ne.jp/english
... with a great cartoon visit to a Japanese Tea House. Only a Japanese tea site could be this much fun! I learned more about green tea than I ever imagined might exist!
And I decided what I've been looking for all along is Maccha (or Matcha, as I occasionally spell it). Maccha tea is powdered tea and is the traditional tea used in a tea ceremony.
I had always considered this to be way beyond anything I might ever want to concern myself, but it turns out that the process isn't all that difficult.
A nice bowl, a scoop of the proper powdered elixir, a drop of cold water (to smooth out the powder), perhaps 100 ml of hot (not boiling, thank you) water and perhaps 30 seconds of brisk whisking with a, well, a whisk....
And then you drink.
Ah, yes. Life is good.
