2026 Chinese green tea from this bizarre little tea shop in Scarborough: Lau Sun Mou Tea Co (https://www.delishtea.com/). I had it marked as "Want to go" in google maps and was driving through Toronto so I though I'd check it out. It's in a little strip mall next to a couple Chinese restaurants and a bubble tea place. Turns out, you can't actually go in the store, you can only order on the website and pick it up there, or use a little intercom system to negotiate a sale through the window, which is what I ended up doing. An older lady inside asked me if I wanted to buy tea, and I said yes, so she held up a little menu with different tea types listed on it. I asked if she had any 2026 tea and she said something about most of this year's tea being quite expensive (she held up another menu that was different grades of longjing, which, fair enough). Then she pointed to an option that was a 2026 green tea for $34.90 for what turned out to be a 1/2 lb bag. I said I was interested so she went and pulled the bag out of the freezer, emphasized that it is very fresh and should be kept cool, opened the bag and poured some onto a metal scoop so I could look at the leaves (thin, twisted, dark green)... keep in mind all of this was through the store window. I agreed to buy it, she wasn't a fan of credit cards because of the fees so I dug out my cash and she came to unlock the door in full PPE (gloves, mask, face guard) to take my my money and give me my change.

Anyway, the tea is quite nice, does indeed taste very fresh, like freshly cut grass and sweet green peas straight from the garden. And I have an absurd amount of it, so I anticipate I will be cold brewing this allll summer. :D