I fell in love with tienchi tea when I tried it at an expensive restaurant recently. It has an intense bitterness to it that just keeps me wanting to drink more.

I’ve been looking around for tienchi tea leaves ever since. Either I haven’t been looking hard enough or it’s not easily available. So I ended up buying this packet of tienchi floral tea pellets from a Chinese medical shop.

As you can see, the color of the resulting tea is very dark and it even stained the side of my mug. When I drank it, I got another shock because the tea tastes sweet. I checked the contents listing and it says it contains cane sugar. No wonder!

I’m not used to Chinese tea being sweet. I can understand if it’s English tea and it’s meant to have sugar added to it. So I’m wondering what to do with so many packets of this tienchi floral tea left .

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