The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf invited bloggers for a night with tea connoisseur and Master Tea Blender David DeCandia for a session on tea appreciation.
Unless you count iced tea, tea drinking hasn’t caught on the same way coffee did with the influx of coffee shops all over the Philippines. Tea, however, is starting to get its following. Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Marketing Director Paolo del Rosario seized this opportunity to introduce Filipinos to the different range of flavors that tea has to offer.
Teaching bloggers how to properly slurp the tea, Mr. DeCandia proceeded to introduce five different teas for tasting: the Genmaicha Green, a toasty brew with a sweetness provided by rice; the Fancy Formosa Dragon Oolong with a subtle floral aroma and a hint of peach; the Apricot Ceylon, a light tea with the fruity flavor of apricot; the Chai, the full bodied spicy tea, which has long been the favorite of many tea drinkers, and; the African Sunrise, a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf exclusive, which will be available in the Philippine starting June 2008.
Some photos from the Tea Appreciation Seminar:
Can you spot and identify the bloggers?
David DeCandia teaching the finer points of slurping tea
Lining up the get the first taste of the Genmaicha Green
AJ and Phoebe
Noemi and Ajay
Eric, Arpee and Khusten
Nina and Fritz
Delusional Chef Ryan and Rael
Khursten and Kaoko with their Pinkies
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what did you do with your box? yung sa kin ginawang accessories box ni noreen, hehe. but the teas were good, don’t you think? nice pics!
Hehe, baka gawin kong Pinky box XD I really love the African Sunrise. Can’t wait for June! I’ve only tried one of the tea bags in the box. Are they all the same ba? I didn’t see any labels in the box…
each tea bag is different. it did have the african sunrise and everything else that was featured in the tasting workshop. i think.
Did you manage to figure out which tea was which? I actually wrote the PR people about it but they haven’t gotten back to me.
I’ve only opened 3 bags so far. One was fancy formosa and the other 2 were both mint.