If you want good tea: Forget about Lipton, Celestial Seasonings, anything that comes in tea bags, or has a name brand on it. If there's a Chinatown or interna

If you want good tea: Forget about Lipton, Celestial Seasonings, anything that comes in tea bags, or has a name brand on it. If there's a Chinatown or international market street in your area, go there. Ask around for where there's a tea shop. A good tea shop will offer to make you some tea when you walk in. Accept and try whatever they give you. Buy what you like. There are hundreds of varieties of green tea alone, not to mention white, black, oolong, pu-erh, etc. Tea is sold loose and by weight. When you make it, you can put water just off the boil in a tall glass with the tea leaves. They will sink to the bottom and you don't need to filter it. Later you can get more sophisticated about your brewing and buy a clay teapot, or a special glass flask with a pop-in stainless steel strainer at the mouth.