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Popcorn Tea - Green Tea - Loose or Teabags

Sold by: The LuLin Tea Company

Special Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Popcorn Tea (AKA Gen Mai Cha):

Gen Mai Cha is a blend of sencha green tea with toasted rice. It is also known as "popcorn tea" due to both the popcorn aroma and that some of the rice kernels pop to resemble mini popcorn.

When brewed it has a pale green coloured infusion, and the taste is a wonderfully balanced mix of the strong grassy Sencha and the toasted flavour of the rice.

There are a number of myths as to the first origins of this traditional Japanese tea. One is that monks used their rice pot with rice stuck to the bottom to their make tea. Another is simply that it is "people's tea" as rice is much cheaper than tea, the rice was added as a filler to make the tea go further and last longer. Whatever the origin it is still popular throughout Japan and now the rest of the world, and now a renowned tea in its own right.

-Available loose or in our plastic-free teabags.
-Packed in the UK at our Urban Tea Factory.


Taste: Grassy sencha with nutty, toasted popcorn notes

Ingredients: Japanese sencha green tea, toasted rice

Origin: Japan

Milk? We wouldn't recommend it

Caffeine? Contains caffeine


LuLin Teas:

We are so much more than your average tea merchant... we are an artisan producer of tea. We love tea and we create teas that will make you fall back in love with tea!

We source and import (directly from tea gardens and producers whenever we can), and we have our own Urban Tea Factory where we blend our teas in-house using only 100% natural ingredients and flavours. We manufacture all of our plastic-free teabags as well as packing all of our teas, using compostable or plastic-free packaging for all the products it is available for (the packaging market hasn't quite caught up to us yet for all of it!), we even use plastic-free tape on our shipping boxes.

Popcorn Tea - Green Tea - Loose or Teabags

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