WNW wrote:

"crymad" wrote in message
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Space Cowboy wrote:

However I still don't see how a nation could drink tea with
roasted brown rice.

This stuff has always rubbed me the wrong way. Green tea enhanced with
the mustiness of grain.

--crymad

The sushi places in Vancouver would always give customers genmaicha. I
drank it, but I didn't like it very much.

Do they serve miso soup as a first course as well? This is a strange
custom in N. American sushi bars.

My first year or so in Japan, I avoided green tea altogether because
genmai-cha was all my wife seemed to drink. I thought that's what
Japanese tea was. Even now, she doesn't share the passion I have for
the better stuff, preferring instead Darjeeling or Oolong.

--crymad