My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
or two of ginseng extract.

The caffeine and ginseng keep me going all night long and it
is so delicious. I doubt I'm enough of a connosieur to tell
the difference between different varieties of green tea,
though I did notice it with "white" green tea, which makes a
good blend with the regular green tea bag.

Green Tea: 4g
Water: 600g
Juice: 35g
Honey 3g
Ginseng: 10g

Cost: $0.50 to $0.75 per 20oz cup

brainfart wrote:
> My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
> the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
> blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
> orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
> or two of ginseng extract.
>
> The caffeine and ginseng keep me going all night long and it
> is so delicious. I doubt I'm enough of a connosieur to tell
> the difference between different varieties of green tea,
> though I did notice it with "white" green tea, which makes a
> good blend with the regular green tea bag.
>
> Green Tea: 4g
> Water: 600g
> Juice: 35g
> Honey 3g
> Ginseng: 10g
>
> Cost: $0.50 to $0.75 per 20oz cup

What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
cost to under $1 per cup???

MarshalN
http://www.xanga.com/MarshalN

MarshalN wrote:
> What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
> cost to under $1 per cup???
>
> MarshalN
> http://www.xanga.com/MarshalN

I'm going out on a limb and guessing they are the small vials of dark
ginseng extract. I just bought boxes of 12 vials for $1.00 per *box* at
a local dollar store, so the total cost would be less than .10 per vial
wich I'd guess to be 5-10g. Normally these vials sell for $5 per box at
asian markets (still less than .50 each)

- Dominic

MarshalN wrote...
> What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
> cost to under $1 per cup???

Oh, sorry, I meant 10g or rather a 10ml vial of ginseng extract. I
get a box of 30 vials of Pine Brand Red Panax Ginseng Extractum for
about $5 at the Asian supermarket, and the green tea bags are several
dollars for a box of 100. The ginseng extract purports to contain
2000mg of ginseng, and even if I'm not sure if it gives me energy it
still tastes good.

brainfart > wrote:
>My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
>the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
>blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
>orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
>or two of ginseng extract.

Do you really hate green tea so much that you want to punish it by
doing this? What did green tea do to you?
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Oct 28, 7:13 pm, "MarshalN" > wrote:

> > Green Tea: 4g
> > Water: 600g
> > Juice: 35g
> > Honey 3g
> > Ginseng: 10g
>
> > Cost: $0.50 to $0.75 per 20oz cup

> What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
> cost to under $1 per cup???

3-4 years old, dried roots of real Korean Ginseng (used for tea; the
best and most expensive are 6 years old) - bought in a Ginseng-store in
Seoul, Korea a few days ago: 300g for $36.50 (tax included). I bought
red and white, the red one was a sale, the white one regular. Yes, the
real thing (stamped seal etc.). In a store in Busan it would have been
even cheaper, and at the airport - I don't know.

Bye, Sanne.

Scott /5/06

> brainfart > wrote:
>> My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
>> the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
>> blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
>> orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
>> or two of ginseng extract.
>
> Do you really hate green tea so much that you want to punish it by
> doing this? What did green tea do to you?
> --scott

Scott, on top of all that that, he misspelled "vial."
Michael