What kind of green tea is Maccihairi Konacha?
November 20, 2007 1:38 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

What kind of green tea is Maccihairi Konacha?

I just bought some green tea and the english translation of the ingredients says GREEN TEA, but above that it says (MACCHAIRI KONACHA).

I figured out that Konacha is ground tea, and it does look a bit finer than other green tea I've bought, but it's not powder. Maccihairi is turning up less results. I also tried Machairi (and found a few more things) but nothing conclusive.
posted by JulianDay to food & drink (9 comments total)
I don't know Japanese but it sounds like Matcha green tea. Matcha == Maccihairi?
posted by GuyZero at 1:42 PM on November 20, 2007


Can you upload a picture of the container? It might help if there is Kanji visible.
posted by spec80 at 1:58 PM on November 20, 2007


I would break it down Matcha + iri. The question then becomes, what is meant by iri in context. Perhaps 炒り, 'roasting?'
posted by grobstein at 2:15 PM on November 20, 2007


The first possibility that comes to mind is the 'iri' that means 'put something in' -- powdered tea with matcha in it.
posted by Jeanne at 2:20 PM on November 20, 2007


Thanks for the answers so far.

Here's an image of the label.
posted by JulianDay at 2:28 PM on November 20, 2007


Konacha are ground teas that are not macha (which is ground tencha). It might be some mixture of the two.
posted by mphuie at 2:35 PM on November 20, 2007


It's 'ground tea made more delicious by the addition of matcha.'
posted by Jeanne at 3:29 PM on November 20, 2007


Yeah, it means "konacha with maccha in it". (抹茶入り粉茶)
posted by No-sword at 3:31 PM on November 20, 2007


Thanks all.
posted by JulianDay at 5:22 PM on November 20, 2007


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