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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?

>> No.4201617

Tea is for fags

>> No.4201622

/ck/

>> No.4201626
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>>4201617

>> No.4201635

Double up on the leaves and keep everything else the same next time. Increasing the temperature or steeping too long will just make it more bitter.

>> No.4201648

>>4201635

Okay. Should I push down on the leaves gently after brewing with a spoon to drain some of the liquid, or will that make it bitter?

Some sites say to do it, others say no.

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>>4201617

>> No.4201665

>>4201648
I've never done it and don't see how it would fix anything. Sounds like something teabag drinkers came up with.

>> No.4201672

>>4201648
it really depends on type of tea, temperature, pressure, ect.
some teas become bitter of use squeeze the leaves
but all of them (in my experience) become cloudy

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>>4201617

Reimu does not know what to make of your ignorance, as demonstrated by her reaction.

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>how do the Japanese brew green tea?
With a few hundred yen at the local at the local convenience store.

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>> No.4201729

>>4201688

this picture requires additional explanation

>> No.4201734

They don't. They buy it from the thousands upon thousands of vending machines.

>> No.4201770

>>4201734

>buying everything online or from vending machines

>wondering why you're population has no social skills and is unable to meet mates to sustain the national birth rate

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