Course Topics Available Topics How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Japanese Tea, Sencha How is Matcha Made & Brewing Session What is Aracha and Brewing Session Different Types of Japanese Tea and Brewing Session Course Format The course duration is 1 hour. Hosted online virtually via Zoom with instructions on how to join emailed […]
During this hour long course we will start with an introduction to Sencha Green Tea and it’s history before moving on to how to brew this delicious quintessential Japanese Tea. Background and History of Sencha Production Guide Multiple infusion real time brewing guide Q and A session 「令和2年度第3次補正事業再構築補助金により作成」
Hello hello hello! Tea Intern, the Tea Potato, here! We’re going to start a really fun and interesting journey today. It involves *SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS* With water! … Wait! Don’t go! I swear, this will be really fun. Water makes up more than 99% of tea. If you’ve ever tasted a water that was awful, it […]
Hello ! I am Mathilde, I come from France and I am 20 years old. Before obubu and now I am a student in Angers in France. It’s an agricultural school called Ecole Supérieure d’Agriculture and I’m going to study here to get a degree as an engineer in agronomy and environment. Before obubu, like […]
Hi everyone !! Today’s new recipe is quite original ahah 😉 I was given a pear and was thinking about make something with. The Japan pear here are completely different from different that I am used to in France. But both and any pears are suitable for this recipe ! Pears and matcha seemed to me an […]
Hello ! This is actually the fig season and I had the opportunity to get some from a fig farm ! So I decided to bake with and after searching for I find a delicious recipe of fig pie with praliné. Altought I was inspired by another recipe I modifided some parts off the recipe […]
Hi tea lovers!! Today, I’m going to introduce you an Italian recipe called « panna cotta » which is very famous sweet in the world. This is a speciality from a north region of Italy called (Piedmont) and it was invinted in the early 19 century by a Hungarian woman. The term « panna cotta » means cooked […]
Hello everyone !! So happy to share you a new recipe ! And today is not a random recipe beacause the origin of this pastry is my favorite french pastry ! « Opéra » was created in 1955 by Cyriaque Gavillon who is one of the most famous pastries in France. It is called Opéra to represent about the […]
Hi everyone !! Today I’m going to present a new recipe easier than the others which is the famous American donuts! Donut means « sweet doughnut» and there are many different donut shapes. Why there is a hole in the middle of the most famous? Simply because at the time, people found that the dough […]
Hello everyone !! This is Wednesday and as I said last week, new recipe 😊 Today we’ll going to make the famous « Choux a la crème » from France, with the puffs, and two different creams, one usually pastry cream with matcha and another white chocolate chantilly, lighter. This is not a difficult recipe […]
Hello everyone ! As you maybe see on instagram post (if not you can follow us: obubuteafarms) every week I’ll post a new pastry recipe, today is the first one, I hope you like this format! Do you know the french specialities called Macarons ? There are so many pastry-chefs who every time selected […]
Para el texto en español [PULSA AQUI] If you want to read the second part of this series please go [HERE]/Si quieres leer la segunda parte de esta serie pulsa [AQUI] Hello! This is the last issue in the HEALTH BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA series. It has been a pleasure to write this article for […]
Farm To Cup Tea From The Fields Straight To Your Cup Where’s Your Tea From? Have you ever thought about where the tea that you are drinking comes from? Do you know where it is grown? What about the farm that grows and harvests it? Most tea found in stores and online are blended teas, […]
Para el texto en español [PULSA AQUI] If you want to read the first part of this series please go [HERE]/Si quieres leer la primera parte de esta serie pulsa [AQUI] Hello! Welcome to the second part of the three-part series: HEALTH BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA. Today we are discussing the physical benefits of green […]
July Tea of the Month – Natural Sencha with George Welcome back to a new Obubu Tea Of The Month with the one and only, George! It’s been a very hot and humid summer in the tea-farming town of Wazuka. With that said, there’s no better way to stay cool and hydrated than with a […]
Para el texto en español [PULSA AQUI] Hello everyone! My name is Lourdes, one of the new interns in this amazing adventure that is life at Obubu! よろしくお願いします! If you are reading this article is because you love tea, right? I associate tea with a moment of stillness and calm. Tea can be brewed […]
【Event Report】“Sakura of Hadano to the World 2022” Project On April 15th through April 17th, we held our “Sakura of Hadano to the World 2022” Project in Hadano City, Kanagawa Prefecture. 🌸 Why did we decide to organize this project? There has been increasing demand for Obubu’s Sakura Sencha from both in and […]
After a long two years, we were finally able to welcome overseas interns back to Obubu this Spring! Meet our newest interns and learn about their hometowns, favorite teas, passions, and what brought them to the tea-farming town of Wazuka, Japan! Intern #129 – Marie Q: Tell us about yourself: I first fell […]
Hachijyu Hachiya symbolizes the 88 nights of spring and marks the beginning of the spring tea harvest, also known as Shincha. While the date fell officially on May 2nd, this year’s harvest came early — on April 26, to be exact. In fact, it was the earliest that Akky-san had ever harvested in his entire […]
We wanted to share with you, our wonderful Tea Club Members, an update on the Blue Forest Tea Garden (Blue Forest). We will also share a story involving one of our Tea Club Members, a chocolate rabbit and Blue Forest Gyokuro. In Autumn of 2019 Obubu was approached by a Tea Farmer who was looking […]
The best cherry blossom production area in Japan: Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture A project to pick cherry blossoms and leaves, make tea and deliver them to the world. We are looking for support volunteers! You think cherry blossoms are for watching! Actually, in this volunteer activity, we pick cherry blossoms and leaves! Details: Date and time: […]
Good morning(*^^*)Ladies and gentlemen, it’s me, Akky!How are you doing?It’s getting warmer these days and the pollen is flying and flying.My nose just won’t stop running today!Well, this time we will continue with the previous re-planting project 😊 I put in the bamboo last time and then backfilled it.From here, we can start replacing the […]
Hello everyone!How are you doing?It’s getting warmer during the daytime these days!Risshun has passed and the tea season is just around the corner😄.This time it’s a planting change! Replanting is not about having dinner together ❗️….Plant again! The first is “the start time”.Due to the old age of the predecessor, Mr. Yabukita ↓. Some of […]
Hey, everyone! How are you doing? Autumn is well on the way! Winter will be here before you know it! The cold weather has arrived😱! It’s so cold! It’s cold in the morning and evening, but it’s cold during the day too! The weather was kind of gloomy all day long. We’ve started harvesting the autumn bancha tea! The second harvest season […]
The annual Obubu tea picking experience ended successfully today on the autumn equinox. We were blessed with good weather and it was a very pleasant tea picking experience. This time we had 4 guests, 3 volunteer staff, Japanese intern Shota and his staff. We all had a great time together, relaxing and having fun. We […]