#LUPICIA

[deep-peach]

First time making 琥珀糖!! Kohakutou is a very sugary jelly candy made with agar agar that sets to be crunchy on the outside and jelly-like on the inside. It can be used as a sweet in tea ceremonies, since the sweetness offsets the bitterness of matcha.

I didn’t have food coloring so I used two flavored teas instead, Lupicia’s sakura rooibos and etoile bleue…. although the etoile was a bit old and turned a mild green instead of the strong blue it’s supposed to, and the sakura rooibos wasn’t quite as pinkish as I’d hoped. I was also a bit impatient and didn’t let the first layer set for so long enough so my plan to make a layered design failed a bit. Nevertheless, the color lives up to its name of “amber candy”, and smells of cherry sakura tea - fragrant and sweet!

Next time I’d like to experiment with the color and shape a bit so they look a little prettier, but for now I’m pleased that they turned out correctly and delicious!

[okamehachimoku]

[menou-a]

５月のおたよりも届いてしまったので、毎日ひとつずつ今年始めの物から消費開始🫖

[frivolous-pastel]

It occurs to me I might try a spoonful of brown sugar with my cookie flavor tea instead of white

[hpfromu]

루피시아 교토 한정 雁ヶ音日記. 일본의 호지차에 시나몬 블렌딩인데, 시나몬보다 쑥떡 가향이라고 하는 게 더 맞을 것 같은 기분이다. 쑥떡을 물에 불려서 먹으면 이런 향이 나지 않나 싶다. 일본의 호지차는 일반적인 녹차를 만든 후 다시 볶아서 로스팅을 한 차를 말하는데, 그래서 그런지 쑥떡같은 구수함이 느껴지는 듯하다. 차 이름 이야기를 좀 하자면, 카리가네(雁が音)는 기러기 울음소리라는 뜻인데, 철새인 기러기가 바다 위에서 입에 물고 있는 가지와, 줄기로 만든 차의 형상이 비슷해서 붙인 이름이라고 한다. (루피시아 홈페이지의 이야기) (+줄기차라 그런지 찻잎 형태가 일반적으로 보던 것과 많이 다르다. 부피도 그만큼 커서 틴 자체도 일반 틴 두 배의 뚱캔.) 이 차의 이름이 아마 언어유희 종류인가본데, 일어를 잘 모르니까 사전만 찾아서는 이해가 쉽지 않다. 기모노 입은 교토 미녀가 쓰고 있는 '일기'와, '계피'를 읽은 '니키'가 발음이 같다는 듯 하다. 상상력을 좀 보태보자면, '기러기 울음소리 들으며 쓰는 일기' / '기러기가 물고가는 계피가지' 정도의 말장난이려나 싶다. (일어 잘 하는 분 보시면 검수 좀 해주세요.) #루피시아 #Lupicia #雁ヶ音日記 #르블레도르 #티타임 #녹차 #호지차 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpywwM3h3IvapZY8-a4ai_OeeCPVAXh5d03WrU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[abnormalipa]

羊蹄山麓ビール　IPA

北海道のIPA。

我がお気に入りの羊蹄山麓ペールエールのIPAバージョン。

このIPAはすごい。

必ずまたリピートするだろう。

多くのIPAはホップが特徴なのにも関わらず、このビールはモルトマシマシだ。

それでいて、ホップ由来のかっちりビターは健在。

まさにモルトとホップの両立である。

例えるなら、大体いつも定期試験で学年順位10番以内に入ってるのに、部活でも県大とか行っちゃう奴系ビール。

[afutanuuntii]

Bustina decorata di tè Lupicia Breakfast Earl Grey. • Lupicia Breakfast Earl Grey tea decorated bag. • ルピシア・プレクファーストアールグレイの飾れたティーバッグ。 ••• #lupicia #bustinadite #breakfastearlgrey #earlgrey #carnevale #venezia #carnevaledivenezia #gondola #linguaitaliana #lupiciatea #teabag #decoratedteabag #earlgreytea #carnival #venice #carnivalofvenice #italianlanguage #ルピシア #プレクファーストアールグレイ #アールグレイ #アールグレイティー #ティーバッグ #カーニバル #ヴェネツィア #ヴェネツィアカーニバル #謝肉祭 #イタリア語 #tè #tea #茶 (presso Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7OpK3hKAh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mirai-e-jump]

[goodplan-ipromise]

Any green tea brands to recommend?

おすすめの緑茶ブランドはありますか？

[tbyiar]

78. チャイバッグ シナモン

★★

[rainbowbarnacle]

Please make a tea post so I can save it especially the pineapple ice cubes I need more info

Oh, like, different teas I like to make? Okay! :D

🍍Pineapple Tea🍍

The way I do it is really simple:

Buy a giant jug of already-made tea (I like gold peak!)

Buy a carton of pineapple juice

Freeze the juice into cubes, pour a little of it in the tea for extra flavor

And that's it. That's aaaall you gotta do.

There's all kindsa ways you can dress it up, but nine times out of ten I just do this and drink it by the gallon when it's hot out.

If you wanna get fancy with it, feel free to cold brew your own black (or green) tea, add actual hunks of pineapple fruit in there, add some orange juice, add some honey, add some coconut milk or sweetened condensed milk, whatever sounds good! (Also, pairing pineapple tea with coconut cookies? SO GOOD.) Put mint in the pineapple cubes if you like mint! Add a bit of boiled ginger root or some brown sugar and cinnamon for a little kick! Heck, last summer I used blue peaflower star-shaped ice cubes just because they were pretty.

(Peaflower petals don't taste like much, but they make a GORGEOUS blue, and if you put something acidic in there like lemon juice IT TURNS PINK. :D)

🍓Strawberry Tea🍓

I find this stuff sort of difficult to find where I live, so often I go the same route as the pineapple tea: grab a jug of black tea, grab a jug of strawberry juice, (ocean spray has a really nice cran-strawberry one I like) freeze the juice, mix, and enjoy. Super simple.

If I can't find strawberry juice, I dice some strawberries up and put it in a jar with some water and a bit of sugar for a few hours, then add *that* to the tea. (heck, it's really nice all by itself!)

What goes with strawberry? ANY DANG THING YOU WANT. I am particularly fond of lychee. Jasmine tea and rose petals pair really well with it too. Again, if you like mint, it's *really* nice with strawberry. And you know how if you put black pepper on strawberries they taste even strawberrier? (If you haven't tried this, go do it, it's magic.) Same goes with the tea, add some peppercorns or a teeny bit of chili powder or some ginger.

If you wanna drink it hot or cold brew a batch of your own, here are some brands that are also nice:

1. Strawberry Sensation

2. Adagio Strawberry Tea (this is also where I got the peaflower petals)

3. Any of Lupicia's Strawberry Teas they are HEAVENLY

🍏Apple Tea🍏

As with the pineapple and strawberry teas, it's totally fine to just go find some ready-made tea and mix it with some apple cider or apple juice for tasty low spoons fun. If you drink it iced, a bit of sugar and lemon juice brings out the apple flavor nicely!

I prefer drinking this stuff hot though. You know that Fall Drink post that was floating around? IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, TRY IT, IT'S AWESOME.

☕Chai Tea☕

So here's the thing about chai for me personally: I don't tend to drink it iced or sugary, but if you do like it iced and sugary, there are a couple of really nice chai tea concentrates:

Oregon Chai Latte

Tazo's Chai Latte (Forget the "skinny" nonsense, I just wanted to include an option with no milk so you can add whatever you want to it)

Pacific Chai isn't concentrated, but you can use it to make hot or iced chai and it's really lovely, not too sweet and super easy to work with. As for dressing up chai, I don't tend to! There's already so much going on with all the flavors, I just drink it as-is most days. Play with milk-to-tea ratios or sugar amounts all you like, figure out what's your jam.

I do know that mixing chai and coffee together (or chai and chocolate together) is guaranteed to make a feeling groovy kind of morning, at least if you have two thumbs and you're me. Iiii think that's all the tea blather I can think of for right now. Thank you for asking, anon, it was fun! Anybody reading this, feel free to add your own favorite things to do with tea. :D

[homara8524]

Status Report and Mail Order Notification

Good evening brothers and sisters abroad. After the rush of events, I am finally getting settled. Today, I'd like to give you an update on my recent activities and announce the mail order of my original drawings and new publications.

The rush of events started on September 15. It all started with my best friend from high school and I going to LUPICIA, a famous Japanese tea company, to get some tea cakes for the upcoming events.

On 9/23, I exhibited at a joint Touhou event in Kyoto to display and distribute my new book and original artwork, and on 9/30, I was asked to be a second for my master's powerlifting competition, so I was engaged in seconding.

After that, I participated in Kouroumu, a Touhou event held in Osaka, where I exhibited and distributed my original artwork. I have now been working at the event for 4 weeks in a row.

And now that things have finally settled down, we have registered our new publications and original artwork on our mail order site! We have also registered them with the proxy purchase service in Booth's system so that they can be purchased by people overseas. We will charge a small fee for this service, but it will be available to anyone overseas. Of course they will be framed 💕.

In fact, we also have new postcard-sized original drawings of Eastern characters that we have not yet posted here on our website.

And here is a request for the future. My circle currently consists mainly of Touhou character illustrations, but I have started to work on original illustrations as well. And now I am raising funds for my hospitalization and surgery to remove my uterine cancer.

The date for the surgery itself has already been set, and after I finish a national powerlifting competition next month, I will be hospitalized for a little less than two weeks from November 20 to observe the surgery and post-operative condition.

Currently, due to a worsening of a chronic illness that occurred the year before last, I am unable to engage in normal work, and I am still unable to engage in any work other than drawing illustrations. I am a freelance illustrator and earn almost no income. I do not have enough money to face the hospitalization and surgery next month.

So I would like to ask my overseas followers to help me. Please spread the word about my original illustrations to people who are not just Touhou lovers. And if you think it is a wonderful work of art, whether you like the character or not, please welcome the original.

If as many people as possible welcome my original drawings and new publications, it will help to pay for my uterine cancer surgery and subsequent hospital visits.

Most importantly, it will also help fund the purchase of expensive immunosuppressive drugs for my uterine cancer and other incurable diseases.

Please, can you all help me?

[okamehachimoku]

[menou-a]

会報に付いてくるティーパック。

飲んでいない物がだんだん増えて、更に次のが来てしまった。

購入した物から飲んでいるので茶葉の消費が追いつかないｗ 🍵

[grannie-nasty]

what’s your favorite kind of tea? :)

Ooh, I’m going to get quite specific! Wrt green tea I like jasmine and some flavored ones like cherry blossom and apple (I really like the ones from a company called Lupicia)

Then we’ve got Kusmi, Prince Vladimir; Mariage Freres, Marco Polo; Harny and Sons, Bangkok; Mighty Leaf, Orange Dulce (discontinued 😔)

One called Good Earth that my mom used to drink when I was growing up but I don’t think they make it anymore

Best tea I ever tasted was an almond black tea I had with dessert at a restaurant called River’s End

[hpfromu]

루피시아 2023년 토끼해 신년 한정판. 兎んで跳んで (톤데톤데) 이름부터 토끼처럼 장난기가 가득하고, 토끼의 발랄한 이미지처럼 구성도 꽤나 화려하게 되어있다. 홍차, 아라레(화과자), 베리와 오렌지 가향. 토끼처럼 뛰어오르는 한 해가 되라고 틴도 디자인했고, 차도 블렌딩했다고 한다. 루피시아 가향 어지간히 섭렵했다고 생각했는데, 한정판이라고 붙어있어서 그런지 향 조합이 뭔가 또 새로운 것 같은 느낌이랄까? 화려하게 발산하는 향 덕에 저녁 시간의 분위기도 좋아졌고, 왠지 좋은 일이 생길 것 같은 기분. #兎んで跳んで #루피시아 #Lupicia #티타임 #홍차 #강릉샌드 #계묘년 #강릉 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpAcDpcBt2gJBvV7qSEMuKLvqWvTb-oZSNWqHg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=