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ŸWhat
is drop tea (sizuku cha)?
You can feel the Japanese traditional
tea culture with drinking drop tea
and take the whole ingredients in
tea at once. Rolling a drop of highest-quality
green tea on a tongue, you can enjoy
a gorgeous and relaxed taste with
it. Try to taste the sweet and deep
flavor of the ingredients in teanin
fully, sipping the last drop of
tea. Shizuku cha shows the new style
of drinking.
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Ingredients
(1 serving)/
4g highest-quality
green tea
100 cc about 40-degree
Ÿ hot water proper quantity
sweets
| Methods/ | (1)
| Pour 20cc hot water
into teacup with a lid (only for
teacup required) into 4g tea leaves
slowly, and close tea set with a
lid, wait for 2 minutes. |
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| Slide a lid of the
teacup which put on the left hand
slowly to the other side with the
right hand, picking a knob of teacup
with looking upward, and sip a drop
of highest-quality green tea (gyokuro
no sizuku) innocently. |
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| Open a lid gently,
and pour another 20 cc hot water
into the teacup, and add the second
drops. Third drops are followed.
After that, you can enjoy it like
green tea (sen cha) with the hot
water at 80 or 90 degrees. |
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Tea
plays an important role in supplying
the nutrition, satisfying the taste,
arranging the body, and also refreshing
the mind. These four functions of
tea are very valuable one.
Teanin
which is the important part of tea
has the great effect to resolve
the stress of the people suffering
the mental and body disorder. In
addition, its fresh color and profound
fragrance make the people very comfortable.
It has been said that tea was the
drink only for the adult people.
However, from the young to the old
generation, everybody knows a PET
bottle drink these days. It works
as not only refreshing beverage
but also relieving thirsty. That
is why we called the green tea "an
effective medicine to the mind". |
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To
enjoy the fresh fragrance of tea
in cooking, it is recommended to
make smoked fish with tea. No special
tools are required to make smoked
fish.
Only the wok and a lid
in your kitchen, and a net are also
needed. It is preferable for tea
leaves to use coarse tea (ban
cha) or roasted tea (houji
cha). That's all. Shishamo
smelt is the proper ingredient for
tea smoke. Everybody makes it easily,
let's try it.
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| Ingredients/ | Ingredients
10 smelt
1/2 Cup coarse
tea or roasted tea
3 tablespoon
granulated sugar
1 tomato
Each proper quantity: sunny lettuce
and lemon |
| Methods/ | (1)
| Prepare a pan with
a lid or a wok with a lid; cover
the inside of a pan and a lid with
aluminum foil tightly. Cover the
bottom of a pan with it too. |
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| Add green tea and granulated
sugar to it, lay a wire net as floating,
and arrange shishamo smelt on it.
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| Close a lid tightly
and cook it over the heat. A couple
of minutes later, it gets smoked;
lower the heat and another 15 minutes
will be needed to smoke further.
Finally, it will become beautiful
amber color. |
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| Add a tomato and sunny
lettuce, lemon and serve it. |
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Roasted
tea reminds us of a good fragrance.
It is made from tea leaves which
are parched on the fire at high
degree, and then, fragrance comes
out. Using it for a smoked dish,
we can enjoy its fragrance fully.
Once cooking over the heat, fragrant
smoke peculiar to green tea comes
out. Blending it with the other
ingredients, you can taste its flavor
more. Though the Japanese has not
been accustomed to the strong perfume,
the fragrance of roasted tea is
familiar to the fragrance of roasted
tea.
An important thing to mention
about this menu is to combine tea
with granulated sugar. So sweet
and fragrant smoke is extracted
further, and the ingredients get
dark red color. |
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