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April 2, 2010 | 
Author ‘We mentioned tsampa the other day: it’s a Tibetan staple consisting of toasted ground barley (or sometimes another grain) stirred into black tea seasoned with yak butter and salt. For breakfast tomorrow I think I’ll make my grits with tea and play one of my Tibetan CDs.
Chazuke is a snack made with three Japanese staples: rice, seaweed, and green tea. You simply pour hot green tea over cooked white rice and add the chazuke seasoning, which contains seaweed, seasoning such as sugar and salt, and often other ingredients, such as little toasted rice balls.
Genmaicha, another Japanese speciality, is green tea that you brew with toasted brown rice. This gives the tea a toasty nutty flavor.
Boba tea, a disgusting Johnny-come-lately from Taiwan, is rapidly gaining fans here in the U.S. It consists of tea, sweetened with condensed milk, that has enough cooked tapioca in it to make it almost pudding like. Personally, I’d rather go with tsampa, yak butter and all.
Roland Petrov
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Chazuke is a delightful snack I came across while living in Japan. It is composed of ingredients very dear to Japanese culture: rice and green tea.
Simply pour a cup of green tea over a bowl of cooked rice and season to taste with chazuke rice seasoning, available at oriental grocery stores. The one I stock here at the store contains only seaweed, rice balls, sugar and salt.
It’s made in China, but then so is everything else.
If you’re a fan of green tea, do try chazuke sometime; it’s simple, healthy, and tasty.
Roland Petrov