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The problem with tea is that I'll never stop drinking it. I'm more partial to Asian teas though I won't say no to a cup of Red Rose. In the summer, I have a nice recipe for a cooled tea. In a large pot I boil water with dates, wolfberries, chrysanthemum, ginseng, and a tiny bit rock sugar. After being chilled, it is a totally refreshing drink with health benefits .

You drink tea? Oh, cool.

Presto George

It's a place up in Pittsburgh that sells high quality coffee and tea. I refuse to drink tea from retail stores, because they all taste terrible. I'm going to have to say that I'm a huge fan of Oolong, and Black Tea. I do drink Rooibos from time to time though (but I guess that's not technically a real tea..). Teas are extremely easy to get along with too, since there's so many varieties. You can also mix and match a bit if you know what you're doing, like mixing different types of Black Teas with each other. What I hate doing wrong is having the temperature for the water too high, especially for teas like Oolong. Because if it's at an incorrect temperature, either the leaves gets burned, which then leaves an extremely bitter taste.. or it just seems like the leaves didn't soak in there long enough.

Also, would you know what this is?

A friend let me tried it once, and it's aged tea that's pressed down into a coin or cake form. It's not bad at all, he had to chip away at the cake so that the tea leaves would come off. It was . . . interesting. Tastes wonderful though, not sure what the Chinese name for this would be called. I think he said that this originated over in China.