Lewis Perin wrote:
"stePH" writes:

... Kukicha is mostly twigs and stems from the tea plant.

I can't endorse that "mostly". You can buy kukicha that's mostly
leaf, and the leaf can come from vintages as lofty as sencha, or even,
some vendors say, gyokuro.

I stand corrected. So what exactly constitutes "kukicha" then?
Because even the sencha I get has a few stems and twigs in it.


stePH
np: King Crimson, "Improv: El Groovistico SS Blastico"