It's kind of a toss-up, but not too difficult.
Most days, I really like a good, dark, heavy black tea. I really (oddly enough) enjoyed the little vendors with their urns on small carts on the street-corner which you once in a while could find in Scotland and England; very hot, a little sweeter than I normally like it, and plenty of milk. On a cold and blustery day there was not much better than that.
Close as I can get to that currently, PG Tips. Brew it strong, some cane sugar, some 'arf-n-'arf. Ambrosia.
The absolute ----best---- cup I've had to date was Dragonwell shotty green and it was brewed perfectly. It was at the home of a Chinese couple in Hong Kong where I was a visitor. They were very westernized, both having University degrees from Harvard. (Or maybe Yale? Somewhere Ivy League.) I met them by chance at a noodle shop, where they saved me from eating fish guts or something nasty, and they invited me to their home (a beautiful place overlooking the bay, rather well-to-do they were, it turned out) and stayed a day and a night at their place. Perfect hospitality, perfectly genteel people, a lovely time all around. Afternoon "tea" with all the trimmings followed by a traditional Chinese evening meal, and mid-evening this wonderful pot of green tea..... |
