Monday, 14 January 2013

Hibiki-an Green Tea

So I recently made an order for tea from Hibiki-an Japanese green tea (website link below). They are a grower based in Uji, Kyoto, and advertise their tea as being of a high quality with a reasonable price (due to them distributing directly). They have a large range of different teas at different levels of quality, almost all of them being green.
The website, while looking a little dated, is easy to use and equally easy to create an account on. I put an order in that was large enough to qualify for international express shipping. And despite the order being put in near Christmas, the package was sent out extremely fast. The people at Hibiki-an must be amazingly organised! It was incredibly pleasing to get the tea so quickly, and looking through other reviews on their site, it seems that other people got equally fast service.
Another pleasant surprise were the little extras included in the package! A postcard from Uji, some colourful japanese wrapping paper and two guides on how to correctly brew each type of tea (in English) were present. Additionally, each foil-wrapped tea package has the brewing instructions included.
Overall, Hibiki-an Tea has a very functional website, ordering from them was fast and simple, and the little extras made the experience more worthwhile.
Oh, and pardon the picture quality (was in a rush). Tea reviews coming soon!

Their website: http://www.hibiki-an.com/

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