In my tests, I found that the vibrant powder caters specifically well to traditional matcha beverages such as koicha and usucha due to the complex but never bitter flavor and creamy texture once ...

"All you really need is a whisk and a bowl," says Chan. Traditionally, matcha has two preparations: usucha and koicha. Slightly thicker and creamier than regular tea, usucha is the most common.

It’s well suited to traditional preparations like usucha or koicha. The former is a relatively thin, frothy whisked tea made with a matcha bowl and whisk (aka chawan and chasen), two grams of ...

The art of chasen- making, crucial for the Japanese tea ceremony, started in the 16th century under Murata Juko, who ...

Despite having a "vegetal, grassy" flavour that's "almost as divisive as Marmite", said Fiona Embleton in Glamour, matcha is rapidly becoming Gen Z's beverage of the moment. Zendaya and Dua Lipa ...