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Corporate sales
Taking corporate customer orders accurately, quickly, and courteously.
What Japanese tea do you carry around with you?
One-Pot Teabag Mugicha (Barley Tea) (10g x 18 bags)
How do you use it?
I find One-Pot Teabag Mugicha useful, particularly on busy days, because every morning I can prepare mugicha just by boiling water in a teakettle and popping in some teabags. After about ten minutes I’ll have mugicha with great colour and flavour, even if it’s a large batch. I make a point of checking the taste and taking the teabags out on time, because if you leave them in too long, the colour of the tea gets too dark and the flavour becomes too bitter.
Our family often takes part in school sports and other athletic activities, and mugicha is ideal for staying hydrated! In addition to sports drinks, we always fill our bottles with plenty of mugicha. Mugicha comes in very handy after working up a sweat or for refreshing our mouths.
In the summer, we keep the tea refrigerated and drink it to cool down, and, in the winter, we drink it fairly hot to warm ourselves up from within. Mugicha has been an essential item for our entire family for many years, because it comes in very handy regardless of the season, the situation, or your age.
Corporate sales
Supporting and bolstering people behind the scenes in the shops group selling Ippodo tea.
What Japanese tea do you carry around with you?
One-Pot Teabag Iribancha (Kyobancha) 18 bags
How do you use it?
I really like the crisp, delicious flavour of iribancha, which has a punch to it, and have been fond of drinking it for years. I put it in the bottle I carry around with me, which helps me to keep my mouth, and mind, refreshed at all times wherever I am.
Preparing the iribancha is easy—you just put a One-Pot Teabag into a teakettle after the water comes to a full boil. The time to remove the teabag is based on how hot the kettle is. The tea is just right when the kettle has cooled slightly to the point where you can touch it with your hand. The tea tastes just right, with little bitterness.
Now, I’m hooked on iribancha’s distinctive flavour, so other teas just don’t satisfy me. Since we often go to lots of different places for my son’s football and my daughter’s dance activities, we sometimes run out of iribancha in our travel flasks, so we fill our flasks with water at refill spots we find using an app.
Public relations
Conveying the joy of life with Japanese tea when talking with the press and holding classes.
What Japanese tea do you carry around with you?
How do you use it?
When I want to drink Japanese tea in the morning, I prepare refreshing Unro sencha using boiling hot water. Unro has a magnificent fragrance and just the right amount of sharpness, which go well with both rice and bread. When I don’t have time to enjoy a second pot, I pour the second and third pots of piping hot sencha into a travel flask filled with ice. The key is to prepare the sencha slightly on the strong side to compensate for being diluted by the ice. To do that, I breathe deeply and slowly three times after putting the lid on the kyusu teapot. Then, relaxed, I pour the sencha into my travel flask, and I head off, driving safely.
