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Monkey Picked Tea (Ma Nau Mi Ti Kaun Yin) from Edible

That’s the last of it. So I’m going to brew the leaves again and again unil I can’t taste it an more (or forget and let the leaves go mouldy). One of my housemates is actually leaving soon to move to The South, and he loves it so it’s good that it has not run out until now. Pretty delicious – a really good Ti Kuan Yin… not that I have tried hundreds, but it’s the best one I’ve had

Monkey Picked Tea (Ma Nau Mi Ti Kaun Yin) from Edible

To use my word of the week, this tea is ACE. I’ll brew it again and again until I go home for Christmas tomorrow morning

Monkey Picked Tea (Ma Nau Mi Ti Kaun Yin) from Edible

The first time I’ve made my massive pot for ages but then I came in at 7.45 and have an evening ahead of sorting my bedroom and doing jobs, so I need a big pot. This is a gret one because it’s hard to treat it wrong. I try to put in water that’s just off boiling and not to put in many leaves, but it’ll taste good anyhow

Monkey Picked Tea (Ma Nau Mi Ti Kaun Yin) from Edible
Monkey Picked Tea (Ma Nau Mi Ti Kaun Yin) from Edible

This time 1.5 tsp lasted for 3 pots comfortably. I am not sure that it would have gone as far as a fourth pot but I didn’t try it so I’ll never know. It’s so good!

Monkey Picked Tea (Ma Nau Mi Ti Kaun Yin) from Edible

My friends Martin and Paul gave me this tea for my birthday and it’s incredible. I put in two teaspoons and it made 8 cups of tea (i.e. 4 brews of my two-cup pot) without any deterioration in taste at all. Incredible. And picked by monkeys. This tea excites me a lot