Traditional Matcha

A small, potent, and vegetal prepared in a small bowl using a bamboo whisk (also known as a "chasen").  Matcha powder is made by drying and grinding the leaf meat (no stems) of shade grown and Japanese green-processed camellia sinensis.  Matcha is unique and particularly interesting for health benefits because it is not a steeped extraction tea like others, rather it is the actual leaf meat of the tea that you are eating in its entirity.