tea

I've never liked hot tea. Despite the different flavors, they all taste the same to me...or rather, it just tastes like plain hot water. I normally pass up on the house tea being offerred in Chinese and Japanese restos. Try as I might, I really can't understand why others say the tea is delicious. Since I can't take my regular fix of coffee for now (no cream or milk!) and black coffee ain't my thing, I gave tea another chance. My officemates went to Starbucks this morning and I gave in and asked them to get me some green tea or if there's mint, then mint tea it is...plus a packet of splenda just in case. Turns out Starbucks has a mint tea blend so that's a good start. As they handed the hot cup to me, I immediately smelled the minty fragrance and I was hopeful that I might like it this time. But after taking a sip, I then realized that there's one thing with mint that I don't like...it just tasted like hot water with mint. Sigh. I added some Splenda so I could somehow drink it. It helped a bit but this is something I won't drink again. I'll just stick to iced tea...that's the only kind of tea that I like!