776: Chinese Tea with Theresa Wong & Masala Chai with Leena Trivedi-Grenier
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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How Do You Know if You're Getting Good Tea?
So come is a word that I've never really been able to translate in Cantonese. At first it was like ginseng my parents would say it was very gum and this is very gum. It's almost like there's a bitterness so I used to think it just meant bitter. But it's bittersweet. So how do you know if you're getting good tea? First of all the from dry leaves you look at the size of the leaves. And then when you brew it the color that's why we use white cup because you can see the color.
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