Water For Tea

One of the requirements to prepare tasty Japanese tea is selection the water .

It is important for good tea to select soft water.

This point is not familiar to Japanese people because almost every type of Japanese water is very soft water.And, very soft water is suitable for Japanese tea and Japanese cuisine.

The tea using hard water won’t taste so good and lose flavor.

There is plenty of hard water in Europe.And,hard water is suitable for  Europe cuisine.

Hm mm, it is interesting.

Anyway,I recommend soft water !

Water hardness indicates the amount of the calcium and the magnesium in the water.

Very soft: 0-60 ppm
Soft: 60-120 ppm
Hard: 120-180 ppm
Very hard > 180 ppm

Japanese water hardness is　about 20-30 ppm

Below is the list of popular mineral waters of soft water.

Table1.Popular mineral water of soft water

Furthermore,I made the list of more soft waters of the world.

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Took a Video of Matcha Tea

Last Sunday,I met my friend Shige and his wife Yoshiko to learn about how to prepare matcha tea from her.

Yoshiko is currently studying Japanese tea ceremony called “Sado” or “Cha-no-yu “.
Of course she knows how to prepare tasty matcha tea.

She is great teacher.

There are two types of preparation of matcha tea: koicha (“thick tea”) and usucha (“thin tea”).
May be usucha is more popular than koicha.

She taught me both.

Shige took a video of “how to prepare matcha tea” and Toku and me are editing it now.

We will upload  this video after open AKIBA MART  ! Please wait!

Be that as it may,
Shige and Yoshiko !  Thanks a lot for helping me !
Love you always !

If you want to know how to prepare tasty matcha tea now, please refer this page “How To Prepare Matcha”.

usucha

koicha

DAI-SEIKOU!! (Big success!!) Yoshiko and Shige and me

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Japanese Green Tea Is Natural Supplement!

Today,I researched about nutrient content of Japanese green tea.
Japanese green tea is great!  (^^)v
Japanese green tea is like a natural supplement!

If you eat 2 grams of sencha leaves at one time three times a day ,you can take in a lot of nutrition from table1.

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The Effects and Components of Japanese Green Tea

Today, in order to create contents of Akiba Mart, I’m researching about health benefits of Japanese green tea all day.

For the moment,I have made a table of the effects and components of Japanese green tea .

I’m very tired to making this table….

Too many health benefits ….

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