Powder tea by Hosuien
TEA SHOP THAT IS PURVEYOR TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AND JINGU SICHO.
Hosuien (芳翠園) is a tea shop founded in 1950s. Sencha, Gyokuro, Hoji, all kinds of tea that they make has soon gained extremely high evaluation. Even the Imperial family and Jingu-sicho (the government agency that overseas shrines) is contracted buyer of Hosuien.
Their history is not long as Ippodo, but the quality and taste of Hosuien's tea is definitely guaranteed. There shops in Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa and Hokkaido. (Most of shops are located in major department stores in each area. URL of the shops list will follow at the bottom of this page.)
Among those yummy tea. I found something very interesting. "A non-matcha powder tea" called "Otegaru funmatsu chapen" (お手軽粉末茶ペン), meaning "Powder tea in pen shaped canister". With this extremely easy to use products. You can put tea with water regardless to its temperature. You can even use it on sweets, mix with salt and put with sake to add extra "tea flavor".
If you are near those 4 prefectures. Worth a try finding this magical powder.
Otegaru funmatsu chapen, (お手軽粉末茶ペン). Price: ¥1,728
Sencha and Hojicha set. Each pen holds 7g. Each pen can be bought separately for ¥864. (Some limited version may be available depending on when you visit. And they cost with a bit of extra charge.)
How to use this pen. With this, you can make fresh tea on your hike to mountains.
Not to mention "ordinal" tea, there are, of course, selection of matcha, too.
Matcha Miyomukashi, (御代昔).
Price: ¥3,240
30g. The highest grade (thickest) matcha of Hosuien. If you want light flavor. "Nochimukashi" (後昔) is available for ¥648 (also 30g). There are 8 grades of matcha. Roughly speaking, you can tell the grade of matcha at Hosuien by its price. The highest grade is the most expensive one.
Omatcha mame, (お抹茶豆).
Price: ¥594
80g. Peanuts covered with matcha sweet. Constantly stock is shortage because of it sales like hot cakes. For anyone has concerns of allergy. Refer ingredients below.
Powdered sugar, peanut, skimmed milk powder, wheat flour, vegetable fat and oil, sugar, starch, green tea (domestic), reduced starch glycated product, glutinous rice powder, starch hydrolyzate, processed starch, vegetable charcoal powder, lecithin (derived from soybean) Agents (Vitamin E, Vitamin C)
Where to buy: "Hosuien"
Hosuien shop list.
Hosuien official site.
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