Green tea wholesale?

brokeinwales

Hiya,
As anyone who read my thread last week will know, I'm looking for ways to cut my grocery budget. One of my big passions is green tea (and other herbal teas too to some extent) - I get through shedloads of the stuff, but unlike standard tea, you don't seem to be able to buy in bulk from supermarkets - biggest boxes I can get are forty teabags.
Does anyone know of anywhere where I could maybe buy it wholesale in large quantities? I don't mind using the leaf version rather than the bags.
Thanks

ifonlyitwaseasier

i'm going to wheel out the old favourite, have you tried an asian supermarket?



in all seriousness that is actually your best bet for green tea.

Pitlanepiglet

Our Chinese supermarket has big packs of Green Tea, worth a search on here perhaps for a link to a online one if you don't have anything close to you.

Gena

I can't tell you where to bulk buy, we have three boxes of green tea leaves and I think two were part of presents.

What I can tell you (assuming you don't already know) is that you can re-use green tea leaves up to 3 times. The 3rd time is supposed to have the best taste and has a special name (not that I can remember it!). I couldn't actually tell you how many times I re-use our tea leaves, I just keep going until there's little taste left or I think it's been sat there a while (no idea if this is good for you by the way). We have one of those tea-leaves-strainer-teaspoon-thingys to help keep them.

And personally I think for green tea that leaves taste much nicer than bags, you don't get that "tinny" taste you can get with bags.


Gena