Japanese reveal taste for Burmese tea

Japanese reveal taste for Burmese tea

A Japanese company has contacted the Burmese embassy in Tokyo with a request to buy fresh green tea leaves in bulk.

“The Japan Greentea Company distributes dried tea leaves around the world,” the embassy’s economic councilor Min Zaw Oo told DVB.

“Now they are thinking about fresh leaves – the same as the ones we eat in lahpet [pickled Burmese tea leaf salad].

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