“Kukicha”, or steam tea, is also known
as “Bocha”, which is by-product of Japanese green tea. Among those, kukicha of
gyokuro or high-quality sencha is often called “Karigane” too, especially Kyoto
area, and “Shiraore” in other areas. Complicating, isn’t it?
This is “karigane” made of gyokuro stem,
so it has a lot of umami, but much reasonable compare to gyokuro tea itself, which
is good. Together with “amanatto”, or bean sweets.
