Cherry Blossom Tea

There are some nationalities in the world that like, bizarrely to our tastes, salty tea. One such people is the Tibetans who drink black tea with salt and yak butter. I spent some months in Tibet and eventually, after being offered it everywhere, especially at Buddhist monasteries, I learnt to enjoy their salty, buttery tea. Another salty tea is from Japan and it uses pickled cherry blossoms, called sakura, which you can buy online (see stockists). It i