Thirsty?

I bought some of the most interesting tea from Ten Ren the other day: lychee ball jasmine tea. I didn’t even know lychees had balls, let alone such big ones! And it’s beautifully Cthulhoid once it’s been steeped. The damn tentacles even writhe as if in pain! It’s like watching Jacques Cousteau’s Adventures in R’lyeh right there in your teapot.

Cthulhu tea

8 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. silverstar98121
    Oct 22, 2008 @ 06:08:46

    You are scary. You even drink things with tentacles.

  2. museditions
    Oct 22, 2008 @ 08:53:05

    YOU would think the tea looks like tentacles! It’s supposed to be flowers; whatchamattawhicha? ;)

  3. raincoaster
    Oct 22, 2008 @ 09:42:31

    No, seriously, these things WRITHE when you put water on them. They twitch, they claw, they spasm in what is known as “the agony of the leaves.” I never knew tea could be so eldritch!

  4. azahar
    Oct 24, 2008 @ 05:31:59

    Coolisimo!

  5. raincoaster
    Oct 24, 2008 @ 11:34:41

    Should I send some with Zoomer? I have TWO tins of it.

  6. azahar
    Oct 24, 2008 @ 12:45:19

    Oh maybe a couple to try. But you just reminded me of some other tea I like … I’ll email you about it. Though I’m not sure if zoomer will have time to meet up with you before he leaves tomorrow – and [understatement alert] you’re sounding more than somewhat busy at the moment.

    Coincidentally, the last time I had jasmine tea was in a café across the street from the large tentacled one in Málaga.

  7. raincoaster
    Oct 24, 2008 @ 12:49:38

    Well, email me your addy and I’ll mail you some. It’s dried so it should go through okay.

    And yeah, actually it’s a relief not to have to squeeze something else in this week!

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