"KALLE GRIEGER" > wrote in message

> A cup should be :
>
> -thin...thick material has a negative impact on your taste buds

Heavy thick hand-made clay cups have a dramatic effect on my taste buds.
Even water seems tastier in them.

> -white

I also have cups that are white, white inside or whitish, if you use them
too much, that gives a feeling of being in an old laboratory. It's a
pleasure to enjoy a same tea in different color environments.
I have a fascination for green tea in black-blue bowls or deep turkish blue,
white-blue* and celadon cups. I find macha in white bowls very unappetising.

*in Japanese light blue is mizu-iro and the color of the liquor is sui-shoku
but both are written with the same characters, so seeing sui-shoku in
mizu-iro is always fun for me.

> -shallow and not too deep to see the colour of the tea
> -nice to look at.....you must like t look at the cup to begin with
> - out of china bone
> -easy to handle in your hands
> -appropiate for the type of tea

I guess I don't drink much of the type of tea appropriated for your thin
white china cup.

Kuri