Drink Quiz
Green Tea
Like tea poured from one pot so every cup is the same strength, you keep an eye on everyone in the room.
In Japan, green tea is often brewed in a small teapot and poured into several cups a little at a time, going back and forth between them. This way of pouring, called mawashi-zugi, is meant to give every cup the same strength and the same amount. When you're handing something out or passing something on, you make sure it reaches everyone in the room in the same way.
Sencha, the most common Japanese green tea, is said to be best brewed with water that has cooled a little after boiling. Add more hot water to the leaves and you can enjoy how the flavor changes over a second and third steeping. Your enthusiasm, too, doesn't start at full blast; it warms up over time, and it lasts all the longer for it.
Green tea is usually drunk with no sugar or milk. Just leaves and hot water bring out its savory and slightly bitter notes. In the same way, you set things up with only what's needed, without decoration or preamble. That can come across as a bit plain to people who'd like a little more liveliness.
Strengths
- When handing things out, you can make sure the count is right so nobody is missed
- Once you've started something, you can slowly build up your energy for it over time
- You can tell everyone the same thing in the same way, in plain words
Where you may stumble
- Because you keep things the same for everyone, there's no time to ask about each person's preferences
- It takes you a while to get going, so you fall behind when something is urgent
- What you meant as simple and to the point gets taken as curt
Sounds familiar, Green Tea?
- Before handing things out, you count twice to make sure there are enough
- Weeks after a trip, you're still talking about it
- When you're teaching people something, you don't start until everyone is there
Where you shine
Explaining the same thing to lots of people, or making sure everyone at a gathering gets their share. Like pouring cup by cup in turn, you can keep everyone's share the same strength.
Tips for “Green Tea”
- Once everything is handed out, ask at least one person, “Any preference?”
- When something is urgent, start on just one thing before you've fully settled in
- Add a word about how you feel after getting to the point
Matches
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Black Coffee — Black Coffee is also served warm with nothing added. While Green Tea keeps an eye on everyone in the room, Black Coffee focuses on the one person in front of it. Your territories don't overlap, and both of you value quiet, careful steps, so it's easy to share the work side by side.
Mugicha (Barley Tea) — Mugicha is also poured for everyone from a big container, with no sweetness added. Green Tea slowly warms up a gathering and Mugicha keeps it running briskly, so even a long get-together keeps going without running out of steam.
Ramune (Marble Soda) — Ramune wants to set up playful surprises suited to each person, and quickly. Green Tea wants to pour for everyone at the same strength, taking its time. You're opposite in temperature, flavor and pouring. To Green Tea, Ramune seems to have dashed off ahead; to Ramune, Green Tea's preparations look slow, and your speeds rarely mesh.
Close neighbors
These differ from this one on just 1 of the 3 axes. If one of your axes was near the middle, you may have their side too.
Which one are you? 18 everyday situations, about 3 minutes.
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