Customer Reviews

10 Blooming Flower Tea - 5 Jasmine and 5 Green

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I fell in love with flowering green teas from our local tea shoppe, but I was very dismayed with the price ($4/ball!!!).

I was elated to find this listing since it amounts to about $1.50 per tea ball and it tastes great, better than what we get at the fancy store. It has a light delicate flavor that doesn't get bitter at all! You can make five pots of tea without degradation of flavor or any increase in bitterness.

Highly recommended!

I purchased two sets of the blooming jasmine and green flower teas as Christmas gifts. The recipients were thrilled to have received such interesting presents. Both of them raved over the uniqueness and fantastic tastes of the teas. The only negative with these gifts is that it will be a little more difficult to purchase something these hard to buy for relatives will find as delightful this next Christmas!

The tea arrived quickly and beautifully packaged. It was perfect for a gift, and I kept some for myself. It is absolutely delicious. I will definitely order again. The price is much better than most others I've found.

These teas arrived is a nice packaging that I could give easily as a gift. I liked them so much I also ordered some for me! Flavor is also amazing

When you open the package, the dry tea bud look just the way they supposed to, but when you actually try to make a cup of tea, it turns into a disaster.

1) The Appearance
Only the upper level of the leaves opens in the water, and the rest is tied to a tight mass that doesn't even soak properly. The result is that it doesn't really open, and takes full twenty minutes to sink to the bottom of the pot, and when it does, the open part does not necessarily face up. Consequently, instead of a beautiful flower, you get and unrecognizable mess in a pot.

2) The Taste
Maybe it is because the leaves are tied too tight, maybe it is because the tea itself is old, but it tastes bad. For the first ten minutes of brewing there is no taste at all, and after that you get a kind of bland taste. I tried both green and jasmine and not only they both tasted bad, they tasted the same.

It maybe a few bucks cheaper than the other options, but you certainly cannot serve anything like this to your guests, so it is pure waste of money.

This tea is as uplifting as it is beautiful and refreshing. A wonderful way to start the day and a good excuse to have my teen spend a little time with us over a relaxing cup of tea.

I got these as a gift for my mom, who is an avid tea drinker. The blooms opened and were not nearly as pretty as I thought they'd be. They looked more like seaweed. The taste was terrible, granted, I only tried the jasmine, maybe the green tea is better.

I bought 10 Blooming Flower Tea - 5 Jasmine and 5 Green - Tea is very tasty but when I idipped them in cold water they didn't bloom! I've been in China recently and I've tried this kind of tea! So I know that a beautiful and kind of big flower blooms when the buds are in cold water!!!

The tea tastes decent (I have tried the jasmine so far), but I wasn't as thrilled by the presentation. I was expecting a breathtaking and colorful bloom. Instead, I poured the water over the tea ball, and it just floated lazily to the top. As the hot water soaked in, the bland colored tea leaves slowly opened and revealed...a wad of more bland colored tea leaves in the middle. It eventually sunk to the bottom and sat there looking like a hunk of pond weeds. The only color whatsoever was a few tiny pink petals that floated on the top of the water. Someone walked into the room and asked (with a trace of disgust), "What is that? A sea anemone?"

So, if you just want to drink a delicate tea, these would be fine. But don't expect to the wowed by the blooming action.