That's so cool that you actually came across rooibos! It's a South African tea and rooibos is actually Afrikaans for 'red forest'.
omg I just searched butterfly pea and it really is beautiful !! I like how this manhwa talks about tea and gets its readers hooked (≧∀≦)
Being south african and seeing people talk about rooibos tea makes me happy that the rest of the world is getting to know our local, naturally sweet teaヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
I love rooibos!!! I’m Chinese American, and my tiny, new high school had just one language class back when I was there: Chinese. I was the one student of Asian descent in the school, so I got along really well with the Chinese teacher. She was super sweet and we would brew tea together for my AP environmental science class that used the same room. Incidentally, most of the time we made rooibos tea! (▰˘◡˘▰) I guess I took it for granted that everyone knew about rooibos, so this conversation here is very interesting to me.
The butterfly pea tea brews into a lovely indigo colour but the taste is a little...astringent? Lovely to look at but I'll probably not want to drink it again
Wow thats really cool, i really want to try it now haha
that's a bit disappointing, i hate astrigent teas. I like naturally sweet ones, and really don't like bitter ones.
They usually add some sort of sweet leaf thing to make the butterfly pea tea more palatable. Like a tea blend. But the butterfly pea tea tastes ok for a quick brew when the colour hits like sunny sea blue.
As the brew time lengthens, its astringent properties become more apparent and the colour approaches indigo ink /dye. The best way to enjoy it would probably be a good fragrant flower tea blend with just a pinch of butterfly pea for the colour so you can get the best of both worlds.
I always liked tea, but after reading this i became a bit obsessed. I learned so much from this, and i love how they use the real tea names so i can search them. I did a bunch of research on teas, and i came across this tea called "Butterfly Pea". It is a tea made out of a beautiful blue flower, the tea color is the amazing blue color, also i found a tea called rooibos tea, it has such a pretty red color to it.