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While every LILIKU tea provides a uniquely enjoyable experience, here are some of our more popular offerings to get you started!
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LILIKU Green Tea Collection
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Light Steamed Sencha or Deep Steamed Sencha ?
Japanese green tea has a process of "steaming" immediately after picking tea leaves. If the tea leaves are left as it is after picked, the fermenta...
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How to Choose a Suitable Kyusu (Japanese Tea Pot) by Tea Leaf Types
When you cook, you will choose a saucepan or grill or oven depending on what ingredients you are going to cook and how to cook. Likewise, when you ...
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How to Keep Your Kyusu Clean
Tea is a drink many people have nearly every day and a few times a day, so the tea pot becomes stained and strainer is clogged quite easily and thu...
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Does Kukicha Contain Caffeine?
As the name implies, kukicha (stem tea or twig tea) is mainly made from the stem portion of tea. It is a well-known fact that tea leaves contain ca...
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Health benefits of Hojicha
Although Hojicha is different to other Japanese teas such as Sencha and Gyokuro in color, flavor and natural elements, Hojicha also has health bene...
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Is Hojicha effective for weight loss?
In general, it is well known that Japanese green tea is effective for weight loss. This is because most of Japanese teas contain high amounts of ca...
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What is Hojicha powder?
Probably you have heard of the Japanese green tea powder, Matcha. Likewise, Hojicha can be also made into the form of powder. This is called Hojich...
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Can we roast by ourselves to make Hojicha?
Yes, you can. You can roast to make Hojicha at any time but probably it is a good time to make when your Sencha (high grade Japanese tea) or Bancha...
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Can Hojicha be an alternative to coffee?
“Caffeine” has been a focus in health improvements for decades. Some medical researches carried out in recent years indicate that coffee that conta...
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What is the difference between Hojicha and Sencha?
The biggest difference between Hojicha and Sencha is that Hojicha is a roasted version of Bancha or Sencha. Roasting means its process gives extra ...
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Is Hojicha different to Bancha?
It is sometimes misunderstood that Hojicha is the same as Bancha. In the broad meaning, Hojicha is the roasted version of Bancha and Bancha is the ...
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Is Hojicha a Japanese tea with much less umami ?
Though “umami” is a Japanese , but recently it has become popular overseas. Typical components of "umami" are "glutamic acid", "inosinic acid" and...
