When you have a cold, little is more comforting than chamomile tea. Now, Ju-Pu tea is amazing for colds. But since I found that only once in a Chinese convenience store, I have little hope of drinking it again. Not even the Jing Shan royal tea house ladies were certain of its content.
Chamomile smells like sunshine on a field of golden wheat. Its clean, gentle, mildly grassy aroma fills a room like a warm breeze. To drink it is to to be filled with happy memories of late summer. It clears the head, calms your aches, and soothes the tired mind.
Ju-Pu is great, and greatly I miss it. But here in America, chamomile is the nearest thing I've found. Yes, chamomile tea will do just fine for me.
[[Post writing update: I think I found it! Ju-Pu tea from California and Wisconsin!]]
I was so happy yesterday; I found a new tea shop (Teavana; it's a chain) that stocks Pu Erh. A wonderful full bodied tea that tastes a lot like...um...a burning forest.
Teavana has very nice (so nice I can't afford them) Chinese and Japanese teaware (even all the equippage for the Tea Ceremony!)
I can't help but think that, were people drinking more good tea, the world would have less problems.
Posted by: Jason at February 28, 2006 6:02 AM