{"id":362,"date":"2006-08-26T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T00:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=362"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:21:50","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-pokka-oolong-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Pokka Oolong Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/boo\/images\/PokkaOolongTea.jpg\" alt=\"PokkaOolongTea.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"345\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWell.  Sometimes at the JSFR things are exactly as they appear.  This can says &#8220;Oolong Tea (sugar free)&#8221; and that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s inside.  There is no chemical before, during or after taste, no sweetie sweet, no strange flavors, textures, alien pod people or anything other than Oolong tea.  Pokka&#8217;s Oolong tea has that edgy green tea flavor which is softened by something a little darker-tea tasting just like leaf Oolong tea.  If you are looking for a Oolong tea tasting canned Oolong tea then pick up a can of this.  You won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>I was amused by the origins of this snack food (snack drink?).  Pokka appears to be a Japanese company as the can says &#8220;under the licence and the strictest quality control of Pokka Corp. Japan&#8221;.  But!   The very next blurbit lets us know that it was manufactured in Singapore.  That&#8217;s JSF expanding in a march across the world for you, but that&#8217;s not the end either.  After being made in Singapore, it gets distributed by Australia and finally imported by France.  My brain is spinning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good Oolong tea in a can with a funny (and well traveled) story, I think I&#8217;ll give it a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?page_id=2\">Rating<\/a> of <strong>3.5 Wasabi Pea<\/strong> out of a possible 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35-peas","category-beverage","category-savory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}