The Green Dragon Pearls tea come in these large woven balls. Hence…pearls. The pearls are maybe the size of a quarter if it were a sphere. They are tightly put together and have a faint green/floral smell. Regardless of steeped too long or not, the tea is bitter. Really bitter at times. Even with that…

The White Monkey Tea is actually a green tea and it looks like one with its dark green stands. It has a sort of wet grassy smell. Kind of seaweed like…like the aroma of an aquarium. As for flavor…well, as usual with many teas, the White Monkey tea gets really bitter after steeping it for…

The Pi Lo Chun Green Tea comes as a cluster of little partial swirly-like leaves. The leaves are primarily green with bits of white on them and have a grassy smell to them. The flavor itself is generally pretty mild bodied and grassy, but it can be bitter on the aftertaste. The more it steeps,…

The Hunan Gold tea is an absolutely delightful green tea. It doesn’t look green—it looks gold, like its name indicates. It doesn’t taste like a normal green tea either. It has this airy, sweet taste, but sort of…husky quality to it as well. The Hunan Gold tea has decent enough of body and flavor that…

Hojicha tea does not look like a typical green tea. As in, it is not green and it is neither black nor whiteish. It’s brown. Why? Because it has been roasted! And because of that roasting, it has a hearty, toasty flavor. It’s savory. It’s a strong bodied tea because of that toasty, sort of…