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Tea is a beverage that is popular all over the world. With its unique taste, aroma, and nutritional benefits, drinking tea is widely popular all over the world, including England, China, Japan, and even Thailand. The way tea is served in each country is different because the appearance, presentation, and serving of tea each time require delicacy in brewing. The environment for drinking tea may need to enhance the aesthetics of drinking with plants and flowers to relieve stress from work. The shop should not allow the smell of food to interfere with the aroma of the tea. The quality of the container used for drinking tea also has a significant effect on the level of deliciousness and the impression of the drinker.

Serving in a rough and thick ceramic cup will create a very different effect when compared to the same tea served in fine porcelain, bone china or glass. Or the presentation of tea that many people may forget to think about is the presentation in three aspects: sight, smell and taste, so that the guest can experience it through the senses. Some shops therefore have different presentation styles, such as letting the customer drip the tea themselves, serving the whole teapot to make the tea set, which is another element that makes the customer’s photo look more delicious.

However, if any shop wants to serve tea in cups to customers, it is recommended to brew it fresh and hot every time and increase the enjoyment of drinking tea for customers by walking over to pour tea for customers at the table. This will allow customers to clearly experience the aroma of the tea while pouring it, better than pouring it from the back of the shop. It takes a long time to bring it to serve customers, which is a pity that the aesthetics of drinking tea are reduced.

If you still don’t have an idea about what kind of tea to serve, try to find out what style of tea your shop has.

1. Serving tea in the English style: The English love drinking black tea, which is one of the most popular teas in the world. It can be served straight from a glass, but if you want to experience the true English tea experience, you should choose the right teaware, including a teapot (Chinese or ceramic), teacups with saucers, sugar bowl, creamer, kettle, cups for discarding leftover tea or tea leaves, and snack plates.

British tea time usually starts around 4pm. If the shop wants to serve an Afternoon Tea set that serves tea with snacks, tea can be served anytime from 2pm to 5pm. Traditional afternoon tea is often served with small sandwiches, scones and a variety of pastries such as almond shortbread, cheesecake, macarons, biscuits or banana cake.

If you find a shop that wants to serve it with milk, sugar, or lemon, it is recommended to arrange them separately in the tea set so that customers can have fun and experience adding different ingredients to achieve the taste they like. However, it is not recommended to add lemon and milk at the same time because the citric acid of the lemon will cause the protein in the milk to harden into lumps. The recommended order is to pour the tea first, add sugar, and then gently place the lemon on the tea last.

In addition to Afternoon Tea, there is also High Tea, which is popularly enjoyed from around 5 pm to 9 pm. The food served with tea at this time is heavier than Afternoon Tea, such as a hot dish, bread, potatoes, vegetables, cheese, meat, stew, Welsh muffins, pies or omelettes.

If your shop is an English tea shop, then offering Afternoon Tea and High Tea as a set menu is an interesting way to attract customers.

2. Japanese style tea serving. I believe many people are already familiar with the Japanese style of serving, which emphasizes the simplicity of the design of the serving containers. The snacks that are popularly served are also small snacks called wagashi, which Japanese people like to finish eating before serving the tea. However, if a shop wants to add some Japanese style, there may be a small corner of the shop or at the counter bar that shows the traditional Japanese tea brewing ceremony using cha-chaku to scoop the tea powder, cha-sen to beat the tea powder to dissolve, and rotating the tea cup before drinking, as we often see in Japanese travel programs.

Some shops, if they are not very knowledgeable about tea culture, often play Japanese-style music or may have the sound of soft flowing water to help customers feel more relaxed.

So, how do you serve tea at your shop? Have you forgotten the important points that should not be overlooked of the tea identity? Try spending some free time, enjoy your favorite tea, you might get an idea to present tea in your own style ^^

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Article from: Fuwafuwa

Many people already know that Japanese people like to eat green tea with Japanese sweets, or wagashi. Although there are many other sweets that can be eaten with green tea in the tea ceremony, the sweets that are ranked as popular with people drinking tea and that Thai people know well are:

No. 1 is Daifuku, a soft and chewy mochi dessert that comes with a variety of fillings, such as green tea lava, green tea red bean, and some brands also add fruits to enhance the delicious taste. The dessert tastes sweet and is served with hot green tea, making it a perfect combination of deliciousness.

For those who want to try making their own daifuku and serve it with tea at the shop, adding a Japanese style to the menu in the shop can be done easily and can be further developed by changing the flavor of the dough to make fuku or fillings as desired.

 

 

Green tea strawberry daifuku menu

1. 100 grams of glutinous rice flour
2. 20 grams of tapioca flour (for making dusting powder)
3. 10 grams of matcha powder
4. 50 grams of granulated sugar
5. 150 ml. plain water
6. 200 grams of ready-made white bean paste + 5 grams of green tea powder
7. Strawberry

method

1. Mix glutinous rice flour, matcha powder, and sugar in a microwavable container. Gradually add water and mix until the flour is no longer lumpy and the consistency is thick.
2. Put the flour mixture in the microwave, covered with plastic wrap or in a covered container to prevent the surface from drying out. Microwave on high for 3 minutes, stirring every 1 minute. Observe the flour. If it is cooked, it will turn into a clear flour and will form into a lump.
3. Take the cooked flour and mix it with flour. Divide it into equal parts. Flatten the dough into a round sheet. Add the white bean filling mixed with green tea powder to form a single texture that wraps the strawberries. Shape it into a round ball. Mix it with flour to prevent the daifuku from sticking together. It’s done.

Normally, when serving daifuku, there will be a small stick or Kuromochi (黒文字) which symbolizes eating the dessert by cutting it into bite-sized pieces before eating. Usually, the dessert is not very big and can be cut into about 3-4 times.

Next up is sembei, a crispy rice cracker that comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and flavors. It is usually salty (a flavor from soy sauce), but sweet flavors can also be found. Sembei are usually eaten with green tea as a snack and served to guests at home. Sembei are usually baked or grilled in the traditional way. During cooking, the sembei may be brushed with a seasoning sauce, most commonly made from soy sauce and mirin, and then wrapped in seaweed and seasoned with salt. Sembei are served with tea without the Kuromochi sticks like daifuku, and it is known that it is polite to eat them with your hands.

Ranked third is Dango, a Japanese sweet made by molding sweet rice flour and boiling it. Sometimes it is eaten with sweet soy sauce, red bean paste, or green tea, or sometimes it is grilled over a low heat before being eaten with various sauces to enhance the flavor. Dango can be modified to have many flavors and is served on a stick before being grilled or topped with sauce. It is easy to pick up and eat, so it has become a popular snack for Japanese people to eat with green tea. It tastes best when eaten with Ryokucha green tea. It is said that in Japan, rice flour has been used in cooking since ancient times. Mitarashi dango comes from the air bubbles that form when filtering pure water from the Mitarashi well, which flows at the entrance of Shimogamo Shrine. In the past, Mitarashi dango were skewered with 5 dango balls per stick, with the top dango representing the head, the next 2 representing the arms, and the other 2 representing the legs. If you offer dango to the gods, it is believed that they will become the representative who will take away the bad luck instead of you.

If any shop would like to try making dango by themselves, the shop can do so. The method is similar to making bua loy in our country.

Ingredients: 250 grams of white tofu, rice flour (or mochi flour) + 200 grams of sugar.

Easy to make: First, knead the tofu and rice flour together with your hands until the dough is soft, not too soft and not too hard. Then, shape it into a ball. Boil water in a large pot until it boils and add the dango balls. Continue to boil until they float to the surface. When they float to the surface, boil for another 2-3 minutes and scoop them out and place them on a paper plate. Skewer them and eat with sauce or grill them over low heat as you like. Serve with the shop’s hot green tea. We guarantee that customers who come to the shop will feel like they have gone to Japan.

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Article from: Fuwafuwa

Uji City, a city famous for green tea. Many people have probably heard that the whole city is full of shops selling sweets and drinks made from green tea. Just thinking about it, you can smell the fragrant tea along the way to visit this city. In addition to being famous for its deliciousness and full of ideas for making sweets with a green tea flavor, what’s more interesting is that each shop has a variety of ideas that Thai green tea restaurant and cafe operators should apply to increase their selling points and also to make the most of the green tea powder ingredients available in the shop.

The first shop that we will introduce is Sobadokoro Nagano . This shop makes green tea soba. First, try the soba noodles without dipping them in sauce. You will feel the full aroma of green tea mixed in the noodles. When you dip them in the sauce, you will get a slightly sweet taste. Inari sushi is also special because inside is not rice but regular soba noodles mixed with green tea soba as well.

See the map at https://goo.gl/maps/TdDzEQUNB4CE8vzz5

The next shop we will introduce you to is Matcha Republic , which sells green tea drinks in unique ink bottles. There are both pearl and sakura flavors, which are packaged in bottles to create beautiful layers. Whether you buy them for yourself or as souvenirs, they are unique and stylish. You can forget about the usual matcha latte.

See the map at https://goo.gl/maps/UB6RqZceBngnw3XZ9.

Another shop that looks like a normal butcher shop but has green tea croquettes with a fragrant tea aroma. They are sweet and have a soft texture. They are even more delicious when fried fresh. They are also hard to find. If you pass by there, don’t forget to stop by and try them at Niku no Hariyoshi.

See the map at https://goo.gl/maps/zx8MdGeTdBreQbpr7.

Another interesting shop is Tako Q (蛸Q) which mixes green tea powder with flour and sauce to make green tea takoyaki and green tea gyoza, eaten with green tea powder mixed with a little salt. This is another idea that many people might not have thought of that green tea powder could be used to make snacks. And importantly, in Thailand, green tea powder is almost never used in food. This is another idea that might create a wow factor for your shop.

See the map at https://goo.gl/maps/3dQqrKTm4PJPYLwh7

For any shops that want to add new menus to their shop but don’t know which menu to add, try looking wider than using green tea to make desserts and drinks. Changing the way the green tea menu is served in the shop in the old way will create color and excitement for customers.

Source

https://tabelog.com/kyoto/A2607/A260701/26005936/

https://www.matcha-republic.com/menus

Article from: Fuwafuwa