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A cup of mellow tea with exquisite tea food, both can bring relaxation of the mind, leisure can also be better to the flavor of tea. Specifically how to do it? nlS Tea Network
National Tea Quality Inspection Center professorate senior engineer Shen Hong suggested that leisure tea, with tea food can follow the “sweet with green, sour with red, melon with oolong” mnemonic. The so-called sweet with green, refers to the sweet food with green tea, such as various sweet cake, pineapple cake, etc.; sour with red refers to the taste of sour food with black tea, such as hawthorn, lemon, etc.; melon with oolong refers to the salty food with oolong tea, such as salty melon seeds, peanuts, etc. nlS Tea Network
Green tea is refreshing, slightly bitter taste, tea food can choose fresh and sweet flavored snacks with. Green tea is rich in catechins with the role of inhibiting sugar absorption, but also can promote lipid metabolism. However, it should be noted that the tea food should not be too sweet, otherwise it will cover the flavor of the tea, resulting in the tea drinker can not taste the flavor of green tea should have. For example, with durian pastry, although the taste is good, but its flavor is too heavy, easy to suppress the tea’s fragrance. Mung bean cake, yam cake, pineapple cake and other sweet and refreshing snacks are very suitable to match with green tea. nlS Tea Net
Black tea is mellow and rich in flavor, sweet and mellow in taste. If you pair it with foods that are sour in taste, it will give you a pleasant sweet and sour taste, and fruits such as lemon, kiwi, or plums are all good partners for black tea. In terms of taste, after drinking black tea, there will be a feeling of astringency in the mouth, at this time to eat some acidic food, can be very good for neutralization. nlS Tea Network
Oolong tea belongs to semi-fermented tea, taste between black tea and green tea, tea soup over the throat when Xu Xu Jin, sweet and aftertaste in the mouth, with salty food with, can retain the aroma of tea, and will not destroy its original flavor. Savory food, melon seeds, peanuts, pistacios, macadamia nuts and other nuts are the most recommended. Nuts crispy but easy to fire, oolong tea refreshing can remove fire, so from this point of view, melon seeds and oolong tea is also a very good partner. nlS Tea Network
Due to the different eating habits of people, tea and food with regional differences. Such as Fujian Minnan region and Guangdong Chaoshan region often drink kung fu tea, more south sugar, coconut cake, mung bean cake as tea food, not only delicious flavor, but also the appearance of refined elegant, not only to satiate the stomach, but also not lose the interest of tea. The old Beijing is popular book teahouse, tea is only auxiliary, listening to the book is the main, tea time tea snacks for melon seeds and other snacks, very casual. nlS Tea Network