The Perfect Cup of Green Tea!

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I used to hear a lot about the great qualities and health benefits of Green Tea. Inspired by all this I decided to try making one for myself. How tough can making a cup of tea be?
So I went and bought a pack of crushed green tea leaves. Well Green tea, Black tea, etc.. whats the difference. Went about the same way. Take a teaspoon, boil it in water, filter it and add some sugar and voila, Green Tea. Though I did admit that the colour had me doubt whether I did it right. So I decided to just for the sake of it to check the intructions on the pack. And thats when I find out that you musn't boil the tea leaves but add the tea leaves to medium hot water and brew it. "Wat difference does it make!" I though and went ahead to drink my concoction. One sip and I spat it all out. The thing tasted so bitter and gross. Hmmm.. adding it to boiling water and adding it medium hot water did make a difference unfortunately.
OK My bad. Decided to try it again, this time with the medium hot water. Again, the taste was bitter. The health benefits of Green tea werent looking very appealing now.
OK I decided to try one more time. Before that I decided to refer my trusty Google for info as to wat I was doing wrong. A search on Making Green Tea resulted in 100s of How to make Green Tea. Ok as expected, the tannins were beings released excessively so a appropriate temperature was required for the water (80° to 90° C) and additionally mineral water or filtered water was better than tap water, blah, blah.

Jeez all this conditions just for a green tea which so far hasnt tasted anything but bitter?
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Alright this time I followed as mentioned and as suggested added lil ginger and lemon also. Well then I hoped for the best and tried it out and.. wonders of wonders, the taste of lemon, ginger and to my dismay, the damn bitter taste still remained only now it was quite less.

Ok I had enough of green tea making. The trouble of making it wasnt for me. Maybe someday I would be interested to try again and find out it wasnt so hard after all. But I am hoping that one day I will be able to make that Perfect Cup of Green Tea.
 

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AnimalCrossingX said:
Hopefully you'll be able to make it good someday, as Green Tea is awesome.

I drink Green Tea everyday at lunch...Green Tea FTW!

U do? So u Make it urself? Any suggestions as to wat I was doin wrong? How does it taste?
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