Anyway, away from my Japanese Tea Ceremony Lesson, I hosted an afternoon tea party and invited my tea master and tea lesson mates to my house about a week ago.
We had lemon verbena leaves that I dried for herb tea and my favorite French tea company Mariage Frères tea with my Maccha Maron Banana Cake after we had Japanese food for lunch. Maccha (matcha) is green tea powder and maron is chesnut in French.
I had such a great afternoon tea time with my tea master and mates in such a different environment in western way of enjoying tea.