Bamboo Shoots

All about Bamboo Shoots, Loose Leaf Green Tea

What it’s like, and how to make it

CaffeineLow caffeine

TypeGreen

FlavourNutty

CharacterFloral, tropical

What’s in itgreen tea, Japanese genmaicha green tea, papaya, coconut, pineapple, cardamom, ginger, red peppercorns

Perfect for

Beginners
Iced

How to brew it

175°F / 80°C
Steep 2–3 minutes
Use 1 tsp per 8oz
Boiling water scorches the leaf and makes it bitter
Re-steep the same leaves twice

Beyond the cup

Tropical meets toasty. The genmaicha base gives you nutty warmth while papaya, coconut, and pineapple bring the islands. Brew as a coconut rice cooking liquid. Makes a stunning iced tea – the tropical flavors explode cold.

Bamboo Shoots loose leaf tea, shown over a chalk-and-watercolour illustration

Illustration: Bamboo Shoots with a tall bamboo grove in spring

What’s in it

Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.

Spice · Caffeine-free

Cardamom
Elettaria cardamomum
Green pods holding small black seeds, from a ginger-family plant of the Western Ghats — floral, resinous and eucalyptus-cool, quite unlike anything else in the cupboard. It is the third most expensive spice in the world after saffron and vanilla, which is why it is...
Floral, resinous, eucalyptus-cool and sweet-warm; the main volatiles are terpinyl acetate and eucalyptol
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Herb · Caffeine-free

Ginger
Zingiber officinale
The universal connector — ginger appears in more products than any other ingredient in the collection. The dried root is chemically distinct from fresh ginger: drying converts gingerols to shogaols, which are about twice as pungent, and that is why dried ginger tastes deeper and...
Pungent, warm, slightly sweet, citrusy (fresh); warm, mellow, deep (dried)
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Tea · Contains caffeine

Green Tea
Camellia sinensis
The same leaf as black tea, with the oxidation stopped almost as soon as it starts — by pan-firing in a dry wok in China, by steaming in Japan. That one difference is why green tea is green, grassy and delicate where black is dark...
Grassy and vegetal with a clean sweetness; gunpowder is bolder and faintly smoky, chun mee plummy and less sweet
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Fruit · Caffeine-free

Papaya
Carica papaya
Dried papaya — eight products carry it, and it is the quiet one. Papaya has very little flavour of its own once dried; what it brings is soft sweetness, a good chew and bright orange colour, which makes it a bulking fruit in the same...
Mildly sweet and gently musky; more texture and colour than flavour
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Nut & seed · Caffeine-free

Coconut
Cocos nucifera
Desiccated coconut — grated and dehydrated coconut meat — in eight products. It does two things in a blend: it adds a creamy, faintly sweet note that suggests milk in a cup that has none, and because it holds fat, it gives the infusion a...
Creamy and faintly sweet with a toasted edge; gives an infusion body where a dried fruit cannot
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Fruit · Caffeine-free

Pineapple
Ananas comosus
Dried pineapple — eleven products carry it, and it is the tropical note in this catalogue. It holds a real acidity through drying, which is unusual and useful: pineapple gives a fruit blend a sharp edge that reads as fresh rather than as sour the...
Sweet and sharply acidic with a tropical, faintly resinous edge that survives drying
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Spice · Caffeine-free

Pink Peppercorns
Schinus terebinthifolia
Not pepper. Pink peppercorns are the dried drupes of a South American tree in the cashew family, and they only look the part — the flavour is fruity, resinous and faintly sweet with a mild pepper-like bite, nothing like the heat of Piper nigrum. Six...
Fruity, resinous and faintly sweet, with a mild pepper-like bite and none of black pepper's heat
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Tea · Contains caffeine

Japanese Green Tea
Camellia sinensis var. sinensis
The everyday Japanese leaf, beyond sencha — bancha, the later-season pluck that is Japan's ordinary house tea; hojicha, bancha roasted over charcoal until it turns reddish-brown and loses most of its edge; and the genmaicha base. Three products carry one or another. What they have...
Bancha is milder and strawy; hojicha is reddish-brown, toasty and caramel-like with almost no bitterness; genmaicha is nutty with toasted rice
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What it goes with

A vacation in a cup. Sip alongside coconut curries, spring rolls, or tropical fruit salad. Pair with our Cardamom and Ginger for a Southeast Asian dinner, or our Thai Green Curry Powder for a full spread.

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