Obubu Tea Farm: Sakura Flower Tea (Salted)

Salted Sakura, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Tea 

5g

Kyoto Obubu Sakura Tea is made with salt-pickled cherry blossoms (the kanzan variety) by their partner in Odawara, Kanagawa. The taste that results from the salt-pickling of the blossoms is a flavour standard in Japan for drinking as tea. However, the salted cherry blossoms are quite flexible as well, and taste great with Japanese sake, mixed with rice (to make sakura rice), cookies, and cakes! The sakura is also delicious added to Matcha and other green teas. 

• Ingredients: Salt, plum vinegar, cherry blossoms
• Net weight: 5grams
• Harvest: Spring (late April)
• Production notes: The sakura blossoms offered from Obubu Tea are grown, harvested and pickled in the region outside of Odawara city, just an hour by train from Tokyo
• Packaged by: Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations

Brewing Instructions: 

1. The salt makes this a very strong tea if not diluted, so we recommend taking one blossom and soaking it in lukewarm water for 3 minutes. The salt will dissolve into the water. Keep this water to adjust flavour later.
2. Take the blossom, and place it in your desired tea, or in hot water if you want to enjoy the flavour alone. Use the salt water from step 1 as a seasoning to strengthen the flavour if you find it too weak.
3. This also makes a beautiful garnishing for pastries, cookies or other dishes!

About the Farm:

Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms is a Japanese tea brand owned and operated by tea farmers in the town of Wazuka, Kyoto. Started by Akihiro Kita and Yasuharu Matsumoto in 2004, the company began as an agricultural social venture. Akky and Matsu's aim was and still is, to teach tea lovers both in Japan and overseas about the value of tea farming, and to contribute to society through tea.