/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I know there are at least a few of you living in Japan, how do the Japanese brew green tea?

I've learned the hard way to stop buying domestic North American-produced green tea, it's absolutely terrible. Only the stuff imported from Japan or China has been good.

Now I need to know how to brew it. I've been brewing a flat tablespoon of sencha in a small teapot with 80 degree water (used a candy thermometer to check). I brew it for about a minute, but something's missing. The tea leaves smell like the way I want my tea to taste, but the tea comes out tasting... weak.

What am I doing wrong?

Have a favourite tea, /jp/?