Chinese Matcha?
Has anyone tried Chinese Matcha? I am considering purchasing it, even though I know it may not be as good as Japanese matcha. Any input is greatly appreciated.
All I would suggest is steer clear of the Chinese matcha that is $9.99 for 16oz of matcha. It is likely to be terrible. I do not know if the Chinese make any high grade matcha. I have never really heard anything good about Chinese matcha.
That’s what I have heard as well. I am looking for a high grade matcha that isn’t as expensive. I spent $24 for 2 oz recently of ceremonial grade Japanese matcha. I’d like to drink ti long term and not destroy my budget.
Yunomi has I think a couple of less expensive matcha and an EBay seller whose name escapes me sold some less expensive Japanese matcha. But these were not ceremonial grade matcha. By the way $24 for 2 oz of ceremonial grade matcha is cheap.
Second this. Chinese matcha most likely isn’t going to be high grade but Yunomi does have some decent matcha at acceptable prices.
Chinese matcha is by far not as good as Japanese matcha, but we’re seeing big improvements in the recent years. There’s more and more focus on ceremonial grades, as cheap matcha production is slowly moving abroad. There’s also more interested in Matcha within China itself, which is driving this development. I bet in the next 2-3 years, there will be very decent ceremonial grade matcha, which is closer to the quality of Japanese matcha, but at a much better price.
I’ve had great Chinese matcha and bad Japanese matcha. It depends on the quality really and whether they stored it right. Majority of the time the flavor profile is different, leaning more weedy, bitter, floral, and sometimes doesn’t froth up.
But more reliably, stick to a good dedicated Japanese vendor like Aiya, Aoi, Yunomi.
can u make matcha your self?
They do make home matcha presses. They are somewhat expensive. You can in theory grind any type of tea in them and if you grind the tea they use in Matcha you will have matcha as good as the tea you started out with.
The best matcha I’ve had so far https://materialmatcha.com. MMU03
Try it and trust me… nothing else will ever taste as good.
If you want cheap-but-not-unpleasant matcha, I’d recommend Korean matcha (“Garucha Matcha”). It lacks the umami of Japanese matcha, but also isn’t bitter at all, mostly just grassy.
As a Chinese, I would suggest not to purchase any Chinese Matcha. Since Chinese prefer to drink leaf-tea， matcha was consider as eliminated in the market. I doubt there’s Chinese matcha with good quality. Go for the Japanese one, they have mature technology.
oh, I thought that is only a green tea leafs grind into the dust. Must to be some special tea leafs for that or special processing of the tea leafs before changing to the powder? Need some special grinder aswell? Sorry for probably sily questuins, Im not experienced in this tea.
Not sure about the tea but I’ve just got a nice Matcha bread in local Carefour only for 5 kuai :-) After Dayi pu-erh ice-cream which was quite expensive :-(, I kinda feel like don’t need to drink tea anymore, just eat it :-)))
oo oo oo I did one! Not my best video ^^; but wow it was an interesting learning experience
https://www.facebook.com/TeaTiff/videos/1767805569953711/
I’d say if you want the flavor of Japanese matcha, go for the real thing. Chinese matcha is often produced to imitate Japanese matcha and usually doesn’t measure up.
But there are always exceptions. I had some outstanding Chinese matcha from Matcha Outlet once that was really floral and delicious. It was like a powdered high mountain oolong. But the murky green color wasn’t as appealing at the bright green color of Japanese matcha and hardly frothed.
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