Comments on: mine’s a tea, pint thereof

By: otter

otter — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:08:56 +0000

love your website and pics. Would you send me your dirty underwear and socks?

By: randomchick

randomchick — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:40:53 +0000

if u really want a food that combines seafood and chocolate, then u need 2 be in new zealand, not japan- there’s a deli down south that sells genuine chocolate fish, with salmon. btw, i think chocolate fish r a kinda nz thing… usually they’re marshmellow covered in chocolate.

my fave crazy japanese drink is pokari sweat. yum, sweat! tastes foul tho.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:45:57 +0000

Welcome to Tokyo. As for a precedent to nasty alcohol-tea drinks, Japanese old men (and me when I wanna get drunk fast) have been drinking tea mixed with shochu, a starch liquor, for ages. It’s not half bad, considering shochu’s direct translation is ‘burning alcohol’

By: David

David — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:46:49 +0000

I should have read this review earlier. Alcohol and tea doesn’t sound bad theoretically, but personal experience has taught me otherwise. I am one of just a few people who have at least once purposely put alcohol in their tea. I carefully carted bottle of Chartreuse home in my luggage after a trip to France. When I actually tasted the stuff, my first reaction was to scream ‘WTF!’ and rip my tongue out. I did neither, instead I thought to myself that I was only happy that I hadn’t bought a larger bottle. I asked a French friend how anyone could possibly drink even a scant trace of chartreuse. He told me that some people (emphasis on SOME) in France drink it in their tea. I for one like my tea strong, a general rule for me is to let the tea steep for 15 minutes. Most people can’t understand this, but I do. I added an ounce of chartreuse to my tea one evening. The tea did nothing to mask the taste of chartreuse. I quickly abandoned the idea of doing how the French do, and quickly put the bottlte at the back of my liquor cabinet.

By: Gaianna

Gaianna — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:52:24 +0000

Dear Intensecure

You nearly made me sick when you ask "Maybe without milkâ€¦?" when milk comes in contact with most alcohol it sours and curdles. it curdles fast when it is closer to a cream.

ever heard of and Irish Car Bomb?

it is the same idea the cream curdles and is gross i hope you didn't get a belly ache doing that.

By: Justin.Y

Justin.Y — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:33:06 +0000

Silly boy. We have Vodka + Green Tea koktails here in Singapore. It's disgusting, but it's vodka, taste like green tea.

By: robokatt12

robokatt12 — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:32:59 +0000

I’m thinking “Joy Super-Cold Squid Stick-now with Lilac!” might be just the thing. Thanks for many laughs and loads of useful information.

By: Wrenna

Wrenna — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:48:10 +0000

Hope you find ur holy grail soon, or perhaps a review on raisin bastard cookies will be interesting, the name would be enough to make you eat it

By: Kailoi

Kailoi — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:48:09 +0000

heheeejee….me spoiles esign… me…happy… destructivism,,,, anarchic…me…….ehhhehhehheehhhehhhehhheh

By: Kailoi

Kailoi — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:45:47 +0000

…hhhehe. alcohole…rules…world…hehehehjee…hhehehe…whiskey…musharigadumdigumdaaaaaa….uhh….welll..whiskey…youknow.stufff…welll…you know… well … welll…..

By: David

David — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:15:32 +0000

Intensecure: Hahah, Gran Mariner (or something like that) is a whiskey that i found in the local booze shop (i live in montreal, canada). It said ’scotish whisky’ on the bottle, but who knows how true that is. Johnny Walker is just fucking amazing, straight or with a chaser. I usually get Red…Cutty sark turned me into mush… Damn ye scottish….i kid, of course. Keep churning out the killer booze!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:33:56 +0000

Do you often jazz over your CDs?

By: pojapan

pojapan — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:21:21 +0000

well i live in tokyo and only have youngfook related obscenities scrawled on my living room walls … does that discount me? mind you… the crayon’s clashing with the carpet .. i might change it…

i’m at school in shibuya. if you see a someone laying into hapless commuters with bread products, cheese filled or otherwise (although i do think the sealed peanut butter ones have a nice surprise effect) on the yamanote, that’d be me. feel free to join in.

By: Intensecure

Intensecure — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:39:25 +0000

@David - are you implying that there is any kind of whisky other than Scottish Whisky? ;) And wtf is Gran Mariner? Are you getting confused? ;) One simply uses Johnny Walker Blue Label, or Black (or Chivas) if one is impoverished. It would be a crime against nature to use a single malt. And never tell a Scotsman that Scottish Whisky “in general” is “extremely foul” unless you enjoy being force-fed haggis - which IS extremely foul. And it is precisely because you are feeling like death in the morning that you require the whisky in the tea ;) Hoots.

By: Guig

Guig — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:06:53 +0000

It’s an evil ploy concocted by the Europeans to make Asians dumber!

By: Kailoi

Kailoi — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:00:38 +0000

i once heard, that early asian cultures advantaged the european ones, because their method of making drinks free of evil bacteria and stuff was cooking water and add herbs wich may have - in most cases - resulted in something like tea. in europe the trick was to add alcohol in everything, wich kills germs (germans, haha) but neurons, too. so modern global society has made the final step: combining the basic recipes of survival to a dubius pop-style-leisure-time-fun-drink. congratulations, mankind.

By: David

David — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:52:54 +0000

Intensecure, what kind of whisky did you use? I’ve found in general, that Scottish whisky (Cutty Sark, Gran Mariner) are extremely foul and leave you feeling on the brink of death the next day.

By: Guig

Guig — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:12:49 +0000

Have you tried apple brandy and herb though?

By: Intensecure

Intensecure — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:07:52 +0000

The English (as opposed to these generic “Brits” that I keep hearing about) do not like to mix things in general - this explains the lack of rich variety in English “cuisine”, only alleviated by the fruits of colonial expansion - and the sacred tea is certainly one of them. That is why alcohol in coffee is called Irish coffee, and frowned upon by decent people. As a Scotsman myself, however, I have of course tried a dram of whisky in my morning tea and discoverd the other reason that it has not become a popular cosmopolitan cocktail. It tastes absolutely foul. In the interests of fairness I tried it with English Breakfast, Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Orange Pekoe, Jasmine Lotus Blossom etc etc. S’all the bloody same - pukesville. Maybe without milk…?

By: tessa

tessa — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:36:33 +0000

i would have thought that as a brit you’d love the combo of alcohol n tea! after all they’re the two mainstays of the british beverage industry…