Have you seen this blooming tea stuff?
The idea is that green tea leaves are hand sewn into a bundle with a flower wrapped inside that “flower” as they steep.
Listen, I know it is all. the. rage.
I am sorry, but it looks like an alien in a glass waiting to reach up and grab me by the lips and suck me into the world of the pod people.
But hey, what the hell. If you are looking for an incredibly unusual gift to put in your gift basket during the holiday season, I am thinking that a blooming flower of green tea and such might just fit the bill.
Honestly, it is probably very tasty and quite lovely, but I will take my tea in good old fashioned dried dark leaves steeped in an old fashioned Brown Betty thankyouverymuch. The alien flower is just too much for me. Besides, tea is part of my past life now anyway.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:58 am
I’m with you on that one! I have not seen them in real life, only in magazines… They are a little too aquatic for my liking, like drinking seaweed, all you need is a couple of fish swimming about.
Not that my opinion counts for anything, I don’t drink tea at all, tastes like wet leaves to me!