Category: Product Reviews

If I’m not mistaken, this is the highest grade matcha that Wakoen offers. It’s made with tea leaves from the first harvest in Kagoshima prefecture. Since this is my...

Thanks to Sugimoto Tea, I’ll taste the Fujikaori cultivar for the first time. This asamushi (light-steamed) sencha is organic and comes from Fujieda in Shizuoka prefecture. I heard good...

I drink tea for pleasure only, as opposed to health. But my exception is green tea from the Benifuuki cultivar, which is good for allergies. Unfortunately, it isn’t the...

Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden, from Shizuoka prefecture, is famous for its smoked teas. I have reviewed their whisky barrel wood smoked black tea in the past. This houjicha is...

This is one of the three teas that come in the masters collection matcha set from Naoki Matcha. Nishio city in Aichi prefecture is famous for its matcha. Since...

This documentary if from 2007 but I hadn’t watched it until now. It was made by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht. At first I thought that it was going...

I’ll translate the title, Gochisochaji (ごちそう茶事) as “delicious tea gathering”. The producer, Takatsu Makoto, is a fellow tea lover that is deeply involved in promoting tea. The documentary attempts...

This is the third Japanese movie about Rikyū. The other two are Death of a Tea Master, and Ask This of Rikyū. The title in Japanese is 利休. It’s...

The name of this movie in Japanese is Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo’s Literary Remains (千利休 本覺坊遺文), and it was released in 1989. It is the film adaptation of a...

This year I haven’t reviewed a black tea. Japanese black tea, or wakoucha, is still uncommon in the market. Ocha & Co gave me this sample. It’s organic and...

One of the teas that I make almost everyday is genmaicha. My wife likes it very much. But she prefers that I prepare it for her. So she was...

Arigato Japan Food Tours, as the name implies, is a food tour company in Japan. Because of the pandemic, they started offering virtual food tours as well. I was...