Green Tea this, Green Tea that., Just what is the price of tea in China?

So while I was in Gangnam recently with a friend, I went to a cafe that specialized in green tea. I thought that meant they had a couple types of tea.

I was wrong. Very wrong. So I scanned in the menu. Not the greatest of clarity as the menu one can take with them is really quite small.



Starts out somewhat normal.







Ends with going loopy with bizarre combinations.

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I've mentioned it before in that green tea drinks are popular here. Seems that this level of interest will require a stronger verb.

Wow. Is it just green tea that is popular? I can understand it as I drink green and white tea pretty exclusively--yes, I'm a snob. Gyokuro and Silver Needle. I don't see Gyokuro on that, but they do have the Korean version of genmaicha, the brown-rice-and-green tea.

And, while I think we've all had green tea ice cream ('tis good), I don't think I've ever seen green tea tiramisu! Some of those cakes are scary.

You should tell them, though, if they want to get in on US food trends, they need to think Earl Grey. I think I've seen Earl Grey ice cream two or three times recently.

That is fantastic. I can't even get good green tea in Kentucky without ordering it.

8000 won for tea @.@

That's Gangnam for you. I would list some prices of some alternative venues there, but I'm in the bad books here enough as it is.

Still though, for an East-Asian country, Korea is shockingly "tea-free". All they basically have is green tea, and then crappy green tea. So unlike Japan or Hong Kong or China. It's a mystery worth exploring, especially if you're obese and unattractive and over forty years old. Hey, some people in my 'hood could get into it!

Being Chinese American growing up in Maryland I never heard of GT icecream until I was a teenager (turning 30 in a week...)...i was like...omg!!! *bury's face in bucket*

Since then, I've moved to California's Bay Area and have a variety of GT items. The GT cakes are not the best as I favor sweet cakes over bittersweet cakes. But as they say, as Asian men get older, they prefer bitter flavors.

Never heard of Green Tea. What is so special.

Health Benefits of Green Tea

You've never eaten in a Chinese or Japanese restaurant before?

This post has been edited by rabbitinpumpkin on Oct 16 2005, 05:47 PM

Still though, for an East-Asian country, Korea is shockingly "tea-free". All they basically have is green tea, and then crappy green tea.

I haven't traveled to Korea in a long time, but I've never been in a Korean restaurant or household that doesn't have bo-ti-cha(not sure how to spell it in English) or ?equivalent to barley tea? Someone else can go into further detail on that, but that's a common tea in S.Korea.

Actually at the Japanese Ramen shop called, Santa Ramen located in San Mateo, CA (9th and B street) that's what they serve. From a box no less!
I am waiting for the chance to stop by Ichibankan (Japanese equivalent of a dollar store) to get some!

Other than hyeonmi nokcha (brown rice green tea), I haven't seen many people drink just plain nokcha as one would compare with boricha. (not ti) I used to hate boricha as I only drank regular water, but I got used to it. As for green tea, I'm not really a fan of it. The taste is worse than oksusucha, in my opinion.

This post has been edited by miso on Mar 18 2006, 11:40 PM