Today I’ve got something different. I feel the need to write about my ShuYao Teamaker to Go. Normally I’m a coffee person. As I know that coffee,  as much as I drink it, is not really healthy I started to look for additional options for something warm to drink. Tea was a obvious option, but I don’t like the stuff they put into teabags and I can’t always carry a set for proper tea making around so there had to be another possibility. I stumbled upon Shu Yao. They offer a tea maker to go and a incredible variety of tea sorts that do not bitter when left in the water for longer than 5 minutes. Those tea sorts they created for the Tea-To-Go cup can all be brewed over again for 4 times, so that one teaspoon of tea can fill this cup 5 times and all I need is hot water.

I didn’t need to think about it twice and ordered my ShuYao cup with a lot of different test sizes of tea. Those are quite expensive as they offer exactly the portion you need for the cup and are single packed (in recyclable packaging). They cost around 1 to 2 Euros per portion and if this would be the only option to get this tea it would clearly be too expensive. But as soon as you have found the sorts you like you can order those in 50 or 100 g portions for 4 to 9 Euros (depending on the sort of tea and it’s ingredients). So what I do now is I have my three or four sorts that I already love and I order those in 50 to 100 gram portions and every time I place an order I’m going to add 4 or 5 test portions that just sound interesting.

My favorites so far are:

• Goji Lemon
• Fruit Delight
• Ginger freshness
• Cranberry mix

Those sorts are all without caffein, but I’ve as well tried some with and I have never tried a sort that tasted awful so far.

The shop in Germany can be found under : www.shuyao.de

As you can see on the pictures below the cap does include a filter that takes care that none of the loose tea gets into one’s mouth while drinking. If the cap is on closed position it even keeps the tea hot and the additionally, depending from the sort chosen, it looks quite fascinating when the tea is floating around in the water.

So…still looking for a Christmas present? Go…..