[Tea Appreciation] Steaped tea boutique

I am a tea lover. I am especially love western tea, which typically has its tea mixed with dried fruits, dried flowers or dried herbs that provide additional aroma to the tea.

Encounter with Steaped, is like meeting the right one. Finally, I found the tea mixed with fresh plants (fruits, herbs, flowers). How excited!

Steaped has wide range of teas especially blended teas. There are also pure herbs drinks and pure tea drinks. Their tea leaves are mainly imported from foreign countries. They have a list of signature drinks which are mainly blended teas with fruits, herbs or flowers, just like this lemongrass grind.

I like that they are being sincere. They blend the tea with fresh ingredients in their signature drinks. Lemongrass tea, for example, does not taste as great when blended with dried lemongrass. Steaped blends it with fresh lemongrass, the freshness of the lemongrass in the lemongrass grind is so strong and aromatic that it feels healthy to drink it. It is tallied with their website information, where they are creating healthy drinks. Cool! :)

I would say Steaped's blended teas are very unique, at least I haven't discover any tea drinks blended with fresh ingredients in anywhere in Malaysia nor other countries that I went (Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and South East Asia). If you do, please let me know. :)

If you like blended tea like me, go try their signature drinks today. :) They sell loose tea as well, do bring back some if you like their teas. :) You can locate them here, they are now in Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, Sunway Velocity Mall and One Utama Shopping Mall.

Steaped signature drinks

Various tea leaves

Various tea leaves

Steaped @ One Utama Shopping Mall

[Tea Appreciation] Tangerine Green Tea

It was a lonely Sunday morning. I decided to enjoy this lonely moment elegantly with my favourite tea at my favourite spot of the house the kitchen island on my favourite white bar stool. I heated up the cinnamon donuts, took out the long hidden tea set partially and put some loose tea leaves into the tea pot. After pouring in some hot water to the pot and waited for few minutes, I was set for my breakfast. :) 

Name: Samdayeon Jeju Tangerine

Brand: Osulloc Jeju Island

Feeling: Elegant mix of tangerine and green tea. Personally, I think it is best drank cold after brewing it for > 24hrs in fridge at water-tea ratio of 2 liters : 2 teaspoons. The aroma of the tea will be optimized and soothing drink from cooled down liquid. To drink it hot, better follow the instruction provided on the packaging itself, i.e. 300ml 90C water with 3 teaspoons of tea leaves for 2 minutes to serving. If too long, the drink will become too acidic. Either way, you won't get disappointed with this blended tea. The tea drinking experience is enhanced with the adequate tangerine in it. :)

Oslond Jeju Island describes this blended tea as following:

A post-fermented tea that blends both the deep aromatics of a cedar tree and the refreshing element of a citrus sudachi. A Jeju Tangerine is added to this exceptional post-fermented tea, which is matured in a cedar barrel. This tea delivers a refreshingly clear taste of Jeju Island with the combination of verdant hints and the tangerine's juicy essence. 

[Tea Appreciation] Sparkling Lemongrass Grind by Steaped

Unintentionally dropped by Steaped in One Utama just because my friend want to peep at the new shop. They served drinks with fresh ingredients.

Name : Sparkling Lemongrass Grind
Brand : Steaped

Feeling : Distinct taste of lemongrass and black tea, with sweetening taste from sparkle.

Fine out more about this drink from Steaped on this drink.

【饮品。Drinks】豆原张爱玲 Typica's Eileen Chang

与豆原相遇后， 进了豆原，叫了两杯冰酿咖啡。业主建议一杯一杯端上，以让我们在不同的时间品赏不一样的咖啡。这是第二杯，名为张爱玲。

业主对我们解释到，这杯咖啡是她在上海旅行后创造的一杯咖啡。因为她喜欢张爱玲，也因为张爱玲与上海的爱情甚深关系。

这会是一个怎么样的咖啡呢？不喜欢喝咖啡的我，可是曾经喝过冰酿咖啡就爱上了的我，想也没想就要了这一杯张爱玲。

After the encounter with Typica, we entered Typica and ordered two ice-dripped coffee. The owner recommended to serve them one by one so that we could taste different coffee at different time. This is the secone cup, Eileen Chang.

The owner explained to us that this coffee was created after she came back from Shanghai trip. It is because she likes Eileen Chang and Eileen Chang has a very deep love relation with Shanghai.

How will this coffee taste like? I, who dislike coffee but fall in love with ice-dripped coffee after I tasted it years back, ordered this Eileen Chang without a moment of thought.

颜色：看不透的巧克力色

嗅觉：第一个感觉是，这杯咖啡有着复杂苦甜交错的闻道，难以形容。后来再闻几次，才闻出arabica的苦味和一些果实的香味，可是还是很难分辨里边的闻道。好难理解的一杯咖啡。

味觉：好苦，可是却可以试出甜味，很复杂的味道。

Color: Impenetrable chocolate

Smell: First feeling is that this coffee is undescribable complex that bitterness is mixing with sweetness. Give it a few smelling, finally able to smell the strong bitterness smell of arabica and the sweetness of fruit combination. Still, it is an undistinguishable smell. A coffee that is hard to understand. 

Taste: Very bitter, but can taste the sweetness, a very complex taste. 

【饮品。Drinks】豆原猫屎咖啡 Typica's Luwak Peaberry Coffee

与豆原相遇后， 进了豆原，叫了两杯冰酿咖啡。业主建议一杯一杯端上，以让我们在不同的时间品赏不一样的咖啡。这是第一杯，名为豆原猫屎咖啡。

业主对我们解释到，这杯咖啡用的咖啡豆是来自Luwak的猫屎（Liberica）。它是在马来西亚土生土长的咖啡豆。喝进去会感觉像cempedak。有那么神奇吗？

After the encounter with Typica, we entered Typica and ordered two ice-dripped coffee. The owner recommended to serve them one by one so that we could taste different coffee at different time. This is the first cup, the Luwak Peaberry Coffee.

The owner explained to us that this coffee is made with Luwak's Liberica coffee bean. Liberica coffee bean is born in Malaysia, it will taste like cempedak. Really?

颜色：透明巧克力色

嗅觉：咖啡的苦参杂着浆果的甜

味觉：咖啡到舌头的前段味道像龙眼，到了舌头中央像酒精，到了舌头后端可以喝出猫屎咖啡豆的苦，是微微的苦，而且咖啡因很重。

Color: Transparent chocolate

Smell: Bitterness of coffee is mixed with sweetness of berry

Taste: Coffee reaches the frontier of the tounge, it is tasted like longan, like alcohol when it reaches the middle of the tongue and finally bitterness towards the inner part of the tongue. The bitterness is mild but cafeine is very strong.