JAPAN EDO GENMAICHA GISAKONE

********GREEN TEA********     CUP CHARACTERISTICS: Toasty and bakey with slight buttery notes. Popped rice kernels provide an excellent visual and imparts the unique flavor of the tea.      INGREDIENTS: Green tea, Roasted + Popped Rice      INGREDIENTS FROM: Japan       ANTIOXIDANT LEVEL: High      CAFFEINE LEVEL: Low     INFORMATION:There are many theories and legends about how Genmaicha, the tea you are now holding, came to be. Our favourite theory is that it was developed during the Edo period in Tokyo Japan. Legend maintains that sometime around 1721, a merchant sailed into the city aboard a trading ship from China, heavily loaded with rice. The merchant anchored his ship in the harbour and rowed ashore, accompanied by a team of sailors, each laden with a sack of rice to sell at the Edo market. As fate would have it, the merchant found himself delayed at the customs gate, held up by a tea merchant in line ahead of him. (Evidently customs clearance was no more or less efficient than