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itt: teanoobs

i'll admit i was a teanoob myself but "not for long" i told myself. i then subscribed wholeheartedly into japanese green tea. japanese people are asian and asians do tea right, right? what can go wrong? i'm learning from the masters after all! i even imported an 120 dollar kyusu (japanese teapot) and a 50 dollar authentic yunomi. i even imported a bag of sencha for only 19.99, a steal i thought. now that i had everything i needed it was time to make some real japanese green tea. i purchased a water heater with a digital thermometer to boil water to the perfect steeping temperature. so i painstakingly read through numerous guides on how to prepare authentic japanese green and none of them would agree on anything. perhaps i was looking in the wrong place, after all these articles are all in eigo and eigo speakers are all teanoobs. i would need authentic instructions in japanese! duh, i thought. this followed about 8 months of learning rudimentary japanese so i could read japanese instructions on how to make real green tea. to accelerate the process i even hired a japanese tutor. that wasn't cheap. after finally being able to read japanese i could perhaps finally have the honor of preparing japanese green tea. i decided to read the instructions on the bag of sencha i purchased 8 months ago. being able to read japanese felt very honorable! after following the sacred instructions on the packet i finally produced my first cup. i couldn't begin to consume it without the proper ceremony so i said "itadakimasu" and held the cup full of tea for the first time. tears flowed down my cheeks as i felt truly one with the many japanese who has shared with me the struggle of preparing an authentic cup of green tea. and so, i took a sip...