Tea Info

  • Tea Discoveries Club January 2014

    The Tea Discoveries Club this month featured these teas: Tsuyuhikari green tea powder (no official name yet, tentatively on sale February 14) from the Fukushima Tea Farm in Shizuoka Prefecture...

  • Photo: Making Sayamacha Green Roast Sencha

    Yokota-san says: Currently roasting tea for “Sayamacha Green Roast Sencha” using houroku (roaster/ pan). The post Photo: Making Sayamacha Green Roast Sencha appeared first on YUNOMI.

  • Shincha Update > Morita Tea Garden 4/24

    Morita-san sent us more pictures of their tea farm. They cover some tea trees for several days before harvesting for Kabusecha.   Can you tell the difference? The left (covered...

  • Yokota Tea Farm

    Yunomi.us staff Mariko driving the tea tank (this kind of harvester used for flat fields feels like driving a tank)Your browser does not support the video tag The post Yokota...

  • Tea farming in March

    I spent some time with Okutomi-san of Okutomi Tea Garden (a well-known local tea farmer in the Sayama region), and asked him about the work of tea farmers in the...

  • Photo: Akio Kurihara-san processes his okumidori tea leaves

    今日はおくひかりを摘みました。 そして、お茶揉んでます。 これを摘んだので、もうひといきかな…。 Today I picked okumidori leaves, and am processing them. These are the ones I picked…just a little more work… The post Photo: Akio Kurihara-san processes his okumidori...

  • Tea Recipe: Shincha Tempura

    Although it is difficult to get a hold of fresh shincha leaves… Eat shincha quick and simple: Shincha Tempura. (Batter is versatile. Dip vegetables like potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, shiitake mushrooms,...