"The rabbit hole goes very, very deep." No kidding. I can't stop watching.

probably the best tea-lover channel on the tube! congrats mei leaf!

@MeiLeaf

6 жыл бұрын

+Constantin L M thank you!

for those of you who are weary about the material used during shading, (plastic, nylon, rusty pipes to hold such lining) you can specifically go out of your way to find "dento hon" gyokuro, which is shaded using layers of straw held up by wood. This type of shading actually gives a sweeter note to the final product, although it is very expensive and i usually pay about $135 CAD for about 115 grams of gyo.

Thanking all people who were involved in this great video.

Hands down, one of the best videos on japanese green tea . Thank you!

Probably the best introduction video about Japanese green tea out there.

I have such a deep respect for the Japanese culture, and this video only adds to that fascination.

@Liliquan

3 жыл бұрын

Comes across more as an obsession.

I have to mention, all the ways that this video is presented are quite excellent. At first I just thought it'd be a typical/generic boring informative video, but there was no filler, no nonsense, and the presenter did a fantastic job. Not surprising that out of all the views it has, there is not a single dislike.

@MeiLeaf

6 жыл бұрын

+Alex Cambron thank you Alex, that is very generous of you.

I absoulutly adore the level of respect and sheer reverence he regards these traditions with. The passion and love is shining clear through

Thank you for taking us with you!

Thanks for providing us with great videos! Definitely learning a lot about teas!

Thank you very much for this awesome video ! I learned a lot today !

Thanks for this wonderful video. Full of all the great information.

Thank you so very much for the video! I love japanese tea, and this video made my tea-heart very happy!!! :)

Great presentation! It is nice seeing out in the field.

This is such a neat video. I love how you're encouraging farmers to think out of the box. That's great for all of us :)

Don, what a great video, this was so informative I kept pausing to take notes. Thank you. :) Really fascinating, to see the process step by step, and you’ve really answered a lot of questions I had surrounding organic teas and pesticides. This was great! Wish I could have been walking tea gardens in Japan. One day...

Thank you very much! Very interesting and it is new information for me!!!!!!

thanks for sharing the knowledge of japanese green tea.

what a great video. Thanks for this

What an excellent, informative video. I'm only just finding your channel and I love it already!

Thank you so much for this very interesting video! I‘m a big fan of japanese green teas and always wondered how they process the tea.

Thanks for this great video. I love japanese green teas.

Thank you! I love learning new things.

Thanks for sharing, Don and Celine. I love the tea trips videos.

Excellent video, thanks!

Amazing informative content, great work in capturing and explaining all these details :) Thumbs up

Outstanding piece! Thorough, eloquent and highly informative!

this is amazing content. thank you

Superb video with marvellous explanations. Thank you very much!

I’m blown away with the amount of information and clarity with which you present it. Hopefully I can stop by the shop if I ever make it to London, as well as the tea fields of Japan. Thank you very much for putting in the effort to make these videos! :)

The tea trips are really cool to see!

Thank you very much for your super explaining film about Japanese tea

This was such an informative video! Very interesting!

Many thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have learned a lot. I have gotten serious about tea lately and your videos have added to my appreciation of this amazing plant.

Wow that really covered it. I've been drinking Japanese green since the 90's and learned a few things watching.

A lot of good information, documentary type, and know how. Amazing congratulations!

Thank you Don. The diversity of tea is amazing.

Thanks for all the educative information, make you more interested in tea

Congratulations for your great job! Very complete and clear.

Loving going through all your videos and learning more and more. I am recently a gongfu convert and can't get enough!

Wow! an amazing look "behind the scenes" of Japanese tea growing

Super video, I feel like travelling with you in Japan, also very instructive

really coo thanks for sharing this!

Thanks Don and Celine....so appreciate your video's. This one was an excellent explanation of Japanese tea market and processing. Making it real. Much better than a book!

wonderfull videos..thank you so much..we are really sipping our tea, knowing what it is all about..

Great information. Thank you

The quality of this channel is amazing!

Perfect video! I would also like to see the machines harvesting.

Thank you its very helpful for my acedemics. Again thank you very much. Go ahead 🤟👍

Don, I've learned so much from you and the vids you put out here! Really appreciate what you are doing! :)

@MeiLeaf

6 жыл бұрын

+Ruthann Amarteifio thanks for watching we are so happy when we pass on the knowledge for you to share to others!

This was super informative and interesting! Love these "behind the scenes" videos!!

Very interested video, perfect for me to now more about Japanese tea. Going to Japan on Friday. First stop Kyoto and of course Uji.

I wasn't ready for the video to end! lol

So interesting …. I’ll never complain about pricing again. The process is way more involved than I realized. Your videos are my new “ visual amsr” with all those beautiful green tea fields!

SUCH AN AWESOME VIDEO!

I just tried Sencha recently and it's cool to see the origin. It's like How It's Made - Japenese Tea.. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

amazing video

Another great video! Kudos to both writer/presenter and camerawoman! :)

One of the best efforts i've seen on KZread, we should be grateful that people like you exist, thank you very much to you and Celine. Love from Saudi Arabia.

Interesting video, thanks. I live in Chiran, Kagoshima, Japan. We are big tea producers, and I've learned a lot about what I see around me every day :)

Great video! Congrats!

Love this video! The place I work at only sells fukamushi, some producers consider it “gehin” like a “lower” quality but it’s also so easy to prepare for regular drinker, I really like it 😊

Thank you, excellent information well presented n

Very educational. Thanks!!

This channel is freaking awesome.

Awesome video!

great tea channel! I love tea.

Awesome video. It was great information. I pretty much did all this research a few years ago by scoring the net on blog posts and small KZread clips. But you summed it up really good in this one vid. I am looking forward to buying some Japanese tea. Keep it up

@Nioteas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for drinking Japanese Green tea. If you need ever any information about organic tea - let us know.

Thank you for the great information about sourcing and processing of Matcha. I really enjoy matcha in the morning and a few cups of organic kukicha through out the work day.

@Nioteas

5 жыл бұрын

I love to drink kukicha in the evening

There is a good tea bag! (well, maybe just a few lol) Totally respectable tea that is fine, not amazing, but good. Green tea, with matcha, and toasted rice. Good taste for hiking!

I just had a giggle moment when a celestial seasons tea ad popped up in the video!

@MeiLeaf

6 жыл бұрын

+I Like Loose Leaf 😂

Thanks! I feel more confident about buying green liquid gold now!

I've only been serious with tea specifically matcha for just a couple months but the knowledge you share is absolutely an amazing!

@saffron1996

3 жыл бұрын

same here! except for about a year now... have you tried drinking your matcha from a bizen chawan? bizen clay is the best compliment to japanese greens imho

Splendid as usual! :)

Absolutely superb video. I knew nothing about Japanese teas before watching this video. Now, after watching, I feel like having PhD. in Japanese teas.

this is so great. why am I paying for government TV if this is so much better than anything I've ever seen on tee. love your passion and clear explanations :)

great video ~ 2 thumbs up

Always nice to see your tea journeys. Learned something new about processing, picking and shading Japanese green teas - there is always something more to learn about tea :)) oh and I have request more to Celine - please try to make a video about the artwork process for cakes! We talked about it with some teaheads on Instagram. People love the artwork and I'm sure lots of us out there would love to see how the designs and printing are getting done all the way up to wrapping cakes :))

@wit_tea_taster4036

6 жыл бұрын

just4fit I agree 100% about the artwork videos! That would be so cool to watch.

@MeiLeaf

6 жыл бұрын

+just4fit yes we are planning this after your suggestion. Thanks.

I drink 90% japanese green teas, just love it. Fukamushi Senchas are my favorite. I also like Gyokuro. But Bancha is not my thing :).

@moritzkohler9214

5 жыл бұрын

I tasted amazing banchas. Give them a try

@roddevereaux1830

5 жыл бұрын

I can only afford bancha in australia and I drink it for health rather then flavour so i brew it at 90c for 10-15mins until nothing further can be drawn out. Its not even that strong after that amount of time to me anyway. I can get chinese grown sencha cheap but the quality is questionable

@chrisg4578

3 жыл бұрын

@@roddevereaux1830 Yeah chinese tea is mass produced and oxidized which kills nutrients. Its no wear near the quality of japanese green tea. Health wise and taste japan wins. Not that chinese tea is bad for you but japanese tea keeps all of the good stuff in it

You are the best!

Great video!

i would really like to a roasted tea comparison. hojicha vs oolong vs anyothers. since in the norther hemisphere its approaching winter roasted tea is supper cozy to drink. imho

Seeing this a bit late, but this was very interesting. I really hope the farmers in Japan are continuing to experiment as I've always found the Japanese tea offerings to be way too simple and unappealing since I am someone who doesn't appreciate the umami in my teas the same way as they do. I would love to see and try out some Japanese oolongs in the future.

There are some very good green teas from Vietnam from when I visited there nearly a decade ago.

Fantastic video. Hoping Mei Leaf becomes a global franchise!

Thank you Don and Celine for this amazing video :) I love high quality Gyokuro, it's always been one of my favourite green teas. I loved the sneaky nibble x) that lady has it good! It's a shame that Japan is so industrial though.

Great Video. Really nice tea education =) also love all the other videos. One important thing to mention imo is that if a field is treated with pesticides, no matter which harvest, the plants on it are also going to have pesticides. The pestcides go into the ground and are poisening earth and water in some radius around the field no matter what. plants which are growing there will also going to have those pesticides; even at the 1st harvest one year later. My research atm about tea showed me that you can drink tea either for taste (pleasure ect) or for health. Espeacially as a consumer it is super hard to know and get some tea which combines both. But I am glad to get teached any better.

@Nioteas

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe to follow us could be informative for you. We only make research on Organic Japanese Green Tea.

15:20 "It's like snowing green tea out there" 😁

The Japanese always take things to the maximum excellence level

@Ken-iu2zp

4 жыл бұрын

Have you been?

@jamesreed422

3 жыл бұрын

“The Japanese people are like everyone else, just more so” -Dan Carlin (hardcore history)

thanks!!!

I like the idea of machinery, because it gives the producer perfect control over the tea without unknown variables. I also don't think this would by definition discourage experimentation, I bet there are tons of adjustable variables to get different kind of tea.

Absolutely amazing! I love your channel and your effort, call me up the next time you're in Japan so we can sip a delicate cup of tea. Much love from Yokohama!

Awesome video guys. I was wondering if you were planning to get some new yellow teas anytime soon

@MeiLeaf

6 жыл бұрын

+Giorgio Leo next year we will try to get some good Jun Shan if it is not exorbitantly expensive.

seriously underrated channel

Thank you!

@vincentsikora6552

Жыл бұрын

I have found this video about organic and non organic that you might find interesting. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2SOxrexmbuyc5M.html

Yeah, I'm only used to Bio or organic food, tea etc. the more lables the better, costs doesn't matter (no, but the strictest lables are the best!) and the fields can rest longer, good! But I might try out some first flush premium green teas as well. THX 4 da recomendation. (P.s. the problem with it could be the prepoisoned field from last year though first flush isn't poisoned fresh...lol)

Good video

@DawiThumbnails

6 жыл бұрын

pde442 you havent seen the video pipe down

I give both thumbs up and make the next Kabusecha brew.

I never really realized it before, but the word 'cha' from Chinese clearly influenced the Japanese names for these teas. Sencha, bancha, matcha. I feel silly for not realizing that the words from the respective languages would have some etymological bleed over. Seems obvious now that I've noticed it.

@banihex

6 жыл бұрын

same in korea too

@_cherly5097

6 жыл бұрын

Because the whole tea thing is from China; they learned everything of tea from China.

@CrescentGuard

6 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I understand that. Just felt like it was something I should've realized before I did.

@kaitlyn__L

4 жыл бұрын

almost every language in the world either calls a variant of cha or té, with very very few exceptions

@MsJavaWolf

3 жыл бұрын

China had a very strong influence on many Asian regions. Kanji for example are also derived from Chinese characters.