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tea news: AI invented teas and boozy tea bombs! Gold Coast scented tea? um... whut? Apparently, it's a Queensland government creation "developed using artificial intelligence, aimed at inspiring Japanese travellers to visit the Gold Coast." Sounds DELICIOUS doesn't it?
tea news: The Brits love their tea polls nearly as much as they love tea itself!
tea news: The Brits love their tea polls nearly as much as they love tea itself! Dunking, tea on hols and Milk vs Tea first polls!
Some British poll found more than half of brit tourists take their tea on hols with themâŚI have to confess to doing the same on a couple of trips. Definitely when Iâve gone to America. Not so much to the UK or Europe tho.
 I find it tricky to find the strong, black, english breakfast-y tea I have every day in the States for some reason, so I have been known to pack a few tea bags to keep meâŚ
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Iâm writing this try-all-the-teas write-up with my other great love keeping me company â Jamie Oliver. Heâs currently talking about filthy, gorgeous pork burgers on his latest show âQuick & Easy Food.â. Oh Jamie, I do love you so!
Hmmm. I wonder how Jamie feels about tea⌠*ponders*
OK, get with the try-all-the-teas program Melanie!
Today, you lucky folks get a try-all-the-teas twofer.
Number 1: a T2 Vanilla Matcha. Which, on perusing their websites matcha page, it looks like they maybe donât do anymore? It *has* been on my tea shelf for a while⌠anyway, shame, as I rather enjoyed it. They do seem to still do a chocolate and a cinnamon matcha though.
As one of my previous green tea posts explained, I 100% know how good green tea is for me (which matcha is a powdered form of) but I 150% do not love the taste of green tea all that much. I am partial to green tea flavoured with other things, hence vanilla matcha. I know, theres a tea purist clutching their tea leaves in horror at this abomination, but ⌠*shrugs*
This one was delicately flavoured with vanilla, and was still that glorious, vivid green when you brewed it. It tasted just like a vivid green tea, but with a gentle, sweet edge.
I brewed it using T2âs matcha flask.  Again, not winning any favours with that tea purist Iâm sure, but it was a whole lot easier to make â pop the matcha powder in the flask, pour the 80 degree hot water into the flask, screw in the lid that has a handy little whisk built in, and then shake, shake, shake! Open said flask gently, pour in a little warm almond or soy milk in my case, one more little shake â DRINK! You can even drink your amazing, good-for-you, tasty matcha on the go, given the handy, transportable little flask thing you got going on.
 Tea Number 2: First Edition Tea Coâs Beauty & The Beast blend. Which I think maybe isnât available anymore either! Oops!
Letâs start at the beginning. The First Edition Tea Co. is a one-woman company, out of Toronto. Stephanie, the one-woman in question, creates wonderful loose leaf tea blends based on famous pieces of literature (like Sherlock Holmes â which is black tea, nettle, honeybush, or âPride and Prejudiceâ â which is apple, rosehips, roasted mate, orange pieces, hibiscus, calendula petals.), and sells them on etsy.
I think this B&tB one was also a gift, sometime back. I finally tried it last weekend.
The ingredients? Black tea, cinnamon, rose petals, orange pieces, ground vanilla bean.
It was beautifully fragrant while it brewed, and equally as tasty to drink. You know how sometimes wonderfully smelling teas donât really taste as amazing as they smell? This wasnât one of those teas.
The rose petals â which to be honest, I was originally a little dubious of, as I like looking at flowers, but I donât love ingesting them generally â really gave it that little extra something-something.
Maybe the First Edition Tea Co. will revive this flavour. If they do, give it a whirl!
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the try-all-the-teas project take 2 sees me trying mega matcha & beastly leaves. I'm writing this try-all-the-teas write-up with my other great love keeping me company - Jamie Oliver. He's currently talking about filthy, gorgeous pork burgers on his latest showâŚ
As the blog name may indicate, I am a full-on, 100% freak for tea.
I love all kinds â chai, green, black, herbal, fruit tisanes â and have been known to get very excited about new flavours and blends and brands and want to BUY THEM ALL.
I usually do. Buy them all, that is.
Very often however, I mostly stick to my old favourites for every day tea drinking, and end up with piles and piles of new tea flavours that I just donât get around to trying, let alone drinking regularly.
See, exhibit A: my tea stash at home. Each of those drawers has multiple types of teas, some bags, some loose leaf, and then theres all those piled on top, and those stacked behind the others at the back there.
Itâs a lot of tea. Even a freak like me can acknowledge that.
So. This is why Iâm kicking off the âTry-All-The-Teas Projectâ â where I will try all the teas Iâve accumulated lately. Every single one. And report back on each one to you here.
First cab of the rank? The Chai Room: Original Masala Blend, made in the T2 Teamaker (which Iâll also do a lil review of soon too, promise).
The Chai Room  is made locally, very locally to me, in Leichardt. This particular chai was gifted to me on my birthday, and is my first taste of The Chai Roomâs wares.
The Original Masala Blend tastes like a delicious, very traditional recipe chai â itâs peppery, full of cloves, star anise and a milder cinnamon flavour. The instructions on the site recommend a dash of your choice of milk and honey for sweetness, but as with most of my teas, I drink it black, quite strong, and I donât feel like it needs sweetening.
It felt particularly appropriate and warming on this rainy, Spring Sunday afternoon, and if youâre after an authentic chai experience, this is definitely a good one to try.
You can buy a one-off pack here at The Chai Room, or you could sign up for a chai subscription, where you can get different chai teas delivered at the beginning of each month. Which sounds like a marvellous idea. Once Iâve made it through my current tea stash maybeâŚ
 the try-all-the-teas project: tea number 1 As the blog name may indicate, I am a full-on, 100% freak for tea. I love all kinds - chai, green, black, herbal, fruit tisanes - and have been known to get very excited about new flavours and blends and brands and want to BUY THEM ALL.
tea with a little holiday "spirit"
tea with a little holiday âspiritâ
I love tea. (yeah, I know you know, itâs kinda right there in the blog name.) I also love a little of the sparkling vino. Bubbles, champers, sparklie, whatever you want to call it, Iâm on board. The big question I never thought I would ever pose is: would I love âprosecco infused teaâ? I may only ever know if I get to an ALDI store in the UK this Christmas, but conceptually? Iâm not 100% sureâŚ
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Q: What does a proper tea freak do when they get home from a delicious, decadent, afternoon of high tea?
A: This tea freak makes a cuppa (of course), and gets on with a review post!
I didnât choose the Blog life the Blog life chose me.
As far as Iâm concerned, Sunday afternoons are made for pink sparkling wine, fancy finger sandwiches, divine sugary treats and giant pots of tea.
Luckily for me, thats exactly what I got this afternoon, joining a friend for high tea at the Tea Salon: a sweetly lilac and pink festooned chain of tea joints in major shopping precincts in Melbourne and Sydney.
Pretty squarely aimed at the fierce shopper, looking for an afternoon pick-me-up after a big day of retail therapy, or mid-shopping binge lunch, the Westfield Sydney one is right in the middle of the centre, on the 4th floor with all the designer stores I usually just peek in the window of.
The Tea Salon, Westfield Sydney
We rock up at 1pm, and the place is already packed. Plenty of Momâs and their little girls, tourists and luxury shoppers around us, chatting excitedly over silver tiered trays piled high with food, and taking the requisite social media snaps on their phones.
Weâre seated pretty quickly and are told our bubbly will be over soon, we just have to decide on the scones weâd like to order, and the kind of tea we want. We both pick the white chocolate and cranberry scone.
And now, for the big TEA DECISION! My high-tea companion isnât a big tea drinker (I know, but look, the world would be dull if we all liked the same things right?), so she chooses an amazing sounding chocolate chai iced tea. I pick the Sweetheart Tea, which is a black ceylon tea, âsweetened with a sprinkling of tiny, pink, heart-shaped sugar candies.â I simply had to.
Our sparkly arrives â delicious â and we giggle over the Wills, Kate and Prince George commemorative plates set in front of us.
Kate, Wills and George. And a cucumber sandwich.
Then, the tiered tray of sandwiches, cake, tarts, mousse AND scones is placed in front of us and the real work begins â demolishing this food.
mel the tea freak (i.e. me) and the worldâs biggest scones.
Highlights for me? The basil pesto, spinach & creme fraiche ribbon sandwich, the very rich chocolate mousse, with a layer of soft, sticky merengue on the top, and the gigantic white chocolate & cranberry scone, which came with triple berry conserve and cream.
As for my love-heart tea? It was hot, and strong, and delicious. But either the pink hearts melted, or I just got plain tea. I thought Iâd open the teapot lid and be tickled at the sight of those tiny little pink hearts, but I didnât see any. My tea didnât taste sweet either, but perhaps my taste buds were a little distracted by all the sweet stuff Iâd already eaten! Anyway, I didnât ask, but I didnât feel too hard done by in the end, because the pot of tea I got was probably just what I needed, as I said, after all those sweet treats.
I believe the chocolate chai iced tea was tasty too, although there is a case to be made for choosing a more refreshing iced tea, to balance the sweetness of everything else.
All in all, it was a perfectly lovely afternoon tea. It feels a little strange at first, out there in the middle of designer store central, shoppers wandering past, muzak playing overhead, but with tasty food and delicious company, its quite a lovely way to spend the afternoon. I can see how it would be a nice resting place for the weary shopper, requiring sustenance, but it was equally fun for an afternoon gossip and catch up, with the added bonus of all the sweet treats you can handle.
My friend had a Red Balloon voucher for this high tea, but if youâre interested, the Winter High Tea with sparkling wine is usually $49.
Sunday at the salon: Tea Salon High Tea review Q: What does a proper tea freak do when they get home from a delicious, decadent, afternoon of high tea?
Tea Tales: all the tea news you can handle 25/05
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HOLD THE PHONES: The Brits arenât the tea-drinking champs we all think they are. â poor old poms, lost out to Uzbekistan in the We Drink the Most Tea competition. In cosâ why not news: PG Tips sent a giant green tea monkey down the Thames. â heâs actually pretty cute. does he entice me to drink more green tea? Hmmmm⌠The oldest tea in the world on display in a Chinese museum. â found inâŚ
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Liquorice root tea for coughs & colds? Tea Freaks gives it a whirl
Liquorice root tea for coughs & colds? Tea Freaks gives it a whirl
One good thing to come out of this awful cold-mageddon (itâs a thing ok?) is â IâM BACK FELLOW TEA FREAKS! Back and posting for real. Letâs ignore the last couple of months of radio silence (please?) and instead ponder the cold-mageddon â that is, a cold of such epic, world ending proportions. Sadly, I am currently experiencing said epic cold, and currently feeling quite stuffed up and soreâŚ
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T Totaler: tea cafe and store, Newtown, Sydney
T Totaler is a groovy little tea cafe & store in my local area, staffed and run by owners Paul and Amber. On my first visit there â a particularly steamy, sticky Saturday afternoon â I partook in some cold brewed chai tea, and a truly delicious chocolate brownie.
The cold brewed chai was a gorgeous amber colour, and really smooth and mild on the palate. The requisite spicy flavours were allâŚ
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tea review: Twinings Green Tea with Grapefruit & Pineapple
In my continuing attempts to drink more green teas, Iâve added this little gem to my repertoire â  Twiningsâ Green Tea with Grapefruit & Pineapple. Green Tea with a little other flavour â mint, lemon, and now sweet, tropical pineapple and grapefruit â seems to work for me.
Hmmm, I hope some of those wondrous health benefits of green tea still benefit when thereâs a little extra somethingâŚ
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tqotd: cuppa tea, cuppa tea, cuppa tea...
#5MWAFTF: Green Tea & Potato Heads
Meet fellow tea freak Hana, from the awesomely named Midnight Snacking Sheep â  a lifestyle blog, about everything really. Food, travelling, TV shows, books and beauty stuff, Hanaâs aim is to share her life with her readers.
Today that includes her love of tea, and her rather adorable favourite mugâŚ
 Whatâs your favourite type of tea? I canât live without green tea, specifically Japanese greenâŚ
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Tomorrow is #5MWAFTT Day! We'll have another great #5MWAFTT up tomorrow - if YOU want to share your tea love with us, drop us a note at [email protected]. Mel
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tea review: T2's Melbourne Breakfast
tea review: a spot of T2's melbourne breakfast tea & a wee easter egg
I was recently gifted a box of T2âs Melbourne Breakfast tea â nice huh? I mean, celebrating a little personal milestone with tea â I APPROVE!
a spot of melbourne breakfast tea & a wee easter egg
Anyway, the tea. Itâs black tea, lightly flavoured with vanilla and honey â a bit like English Breakfast with a melted caramel dropped into it. As much as I love a bit of the sweet stuff, I wasâŚ
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