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Angrboda drank Chá Namuli by Namuli

Having the last half of this this morning for sample finishing week, sample number five.

Language lesson!

Let me guess. Chá is Portuguese for tea?

So para fazer um bom chá might be something like loose leaf of black tea?

Am I close? Wildly off the mark?

(Shame it doesn’t come with a pronounciation guide. I should have liked to have seen my Brazilian’s face when I came to work and spouted Portuguese at her. :p These days when I do, she tends to roll her eyes at me, but it’s her own fault for having taught me to swear! :p )

2012-01-22 02:44:05 -0500

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cteresa 2012-01-22 06:29:42 -0500

well done, chá is tea in portuguese indeed ( well, in a lot of languages as well), though by extension now it gets applied to tisanes as well.

but “para fazer um bom chá” means “to make good tea”,, sort of a promise I guess.

And if you want to see the other side of the package, here it is

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cteresa/6353117163/
but there “para fazer um bom chá” is also serving as title for the brewing instructions.

That package is very very vintage (newly printed, but I think the only changes they have done to that packaging is correcting phone number prefixes), I think then tea was tea and black and no nonsense about tea bags, so I think it does not say anywhere on the package that is loose or black.

Angrboda 2012-01-22 10:08:33 -0500

Well, I got the easy word right. :p

cteresa 2012-01-22 13:42:52 -0500

It is a very useful word :) and works in many languages! it was the important part, anyway :)

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Um…

Okay. Ang prefers black teas and the darker sorts of oolongs. She has to be in the mood for green and white and she enjoys, but knows little to nothing about, pu-erh.

Her preferences with black teas are the Chinese ones, particularly from Fujian, but also Keemun and just about anything smoky. She occasionally enjoys Yunnans but they’re not favourites.

She is sceptical about Indian blacks as she generally finds them too astringent and too easy to get wrong. She doesn’t really care for Darjeelings at all.

She likes flavoured teas as well, particularly fruit flavoured ones, but also has an obsession with finding the Perfect Vanilla Flavoured Black.

However, she thinks Earl Grey is generally kind of boring. Cinnamon and ginger are also not really a hit, and she’s not very fond of chais. Evil hibiscus is evil. Even in small amounts, and yes, Ang can usually detect hibiscus, mostly by way of the metallic flavour of blood it has.

Ang is not super impressed with rooibos or honeybush. She doesn’t care for either, really, but when they are flavoured, there have been known to be surprising exceptions to this rule.

Ang has a number of teas that she regards her Standard Panel and will always try to have on hand.
-Lapsang Souchong, any brand really, but preferably AC Perchs.
-Blackberry flavoured black or similar, any brand.
-Late Summer Blend, AC Perchs
-Raspberry Oolong, AC Perchs OR Red Fruits Oolong, Le Palais des Thes
-Caramel, Kusmi OR Toffee, Le Palais des Thes
-Something orange flavoured, black or pu-erh, any brand.
-Tan Yang Te Ji, Teaspring OR Bai Lin Gongfu, Teavivre
-A good Keemun, any brand.
-The Perfect Vanilla Black if and when she ever finds it…

Angrboda is almost always open to swapping. Just ask her.

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