aimless thoughts of tea

I've been increasingly fixated on tea and tisane! It begun as a child. Being Japanese my grandmum prepared genmaicha/brown rice tea with every dinner, to cleanse and flush the body of the day's intake: whatever oils, grease and fats that one puts into their body. Particularly for dinner though really. I don't know of anyone else, but growing up it was always dinner that tended to be the more heavy, substantial meal of the day for us. For the more heavy meals {ie.- fried shoyu chicken, fried nasu/eggplant, pizza, or any other rarity of fast food dinners}, she would serve the children a citrus fruit for dessert to help break down the toxins so our bodies could properly prepare for the new day during sleep. Now, I don't know how much've it is true or if it was simply a tradition, but till this day I follow it. I don't really care to know if it hods any truth to it b'coz it makes my mental and physical feel better. It does something positive for me which is splendid. ^__^

I've managed to branch out slowly over the years, moving from genmaicha to maccha/green tea b/coz of it's metabolism benefits, then to black teas and oolong teas. I've recently, in the past several months, been building up a flavourful collection of both true teas, tisane and also tea-tisane blends and fusions. I've actually planned to purchase a gift set of holiday teas later tonight! I'm brimming over it like the cheeseball I am! ^///^ It has 9 types of very Wintery, Christmasy blends. I cannot wait till it gets here!

Right now I've got:
Genmaicha
Maccha {or matcha as it is wrongly spelt in romaji}
Black
White
Fusion green and white
Chamomile
Chai White
Lemon ginger
lemongrass spearmint
Mango passionfruit
Passionfruit and papaya
Acai
Blueberry

And for those dessert craving days, just add some Truvia 0 calorie natural sweetener and you've got your dessert craving fix!
Peppermint
Chocolate hazelnut
Nutcracker
Licorice spice
Vanilla caramel truffle
Vanilla chai