Green Tea Noodles with Pine Mushrooms

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

Cheong likes making his own green tea noodles, but his green tea is entirely different to what people buy.

Method

I make mine with the young leaves picked every April from a huge persimmon tree in my backyard, and leave them on racks to air-dry. I first tried persimmon tea when I visited Japan, and I loved it.

I pulverise my dried persimmon leaves into a powder form, then grind them in a coffee grinder, and add about