Don Mei : Hey teaheads!
This is Don from Mei Leaf.
In this video : Kids React To Loose Leaf Tea.
In this video we're going to be pitching the tea bag against loose leaf tea in a head-to-head
battle, and these guys are going to decide the winner.
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Welcome, Estella.
Say "Hello, YouTube".
Estella : Hello, YouTube [WAVING].
Don : And Ines.
Ines : Hello, YouTube!
[WAVING]
Don : My two nieces [are] visiting from Australia.
If you haven't seen [the] video that we did together before I'll put a link in the description
below, where I did a video talking about the safety of tea drinking in pregnant women and
in children.
So you can check that out.
But they have come back, and they keep asking me for more tea sessions, [don't you]?
[TO INES] You like to drink tea with Uncle Don, don't you?
Ines : Yes.
Don : [TO ESTELLA] Yes?
Estella : Yes.
Don : What's your favorite tea?
Estella : [SIGHS]
Don : On the spot?
What's your favorite tea?
[laughter]
Estella : I don't know.
Don : [laughter] Oh, you don't know.
[TO ESTELLA] Do you know?
Ines : I think it's going to be "Duck Shit".
Don : "Duck Shit".
Yeah.
You're obsessed with "Duck Shit" Oolong.
Anyway, [today] what I thought we would do is we would see if you can pick which one
you prefer out of this tea - the tea bag - and this tea - the loose leaf tea.
Now, I did a video on this before, by myself, where I pitched a green tea teabag against
loose leaf green tea, and of course, the teabag came out a very poor second place.
But I received a comment on YouTube criticizing me [by] saying that it wasn't really fair
because of the fact that I was somebody who drinks a lot of tea, so I should have done
a blind tasting with members of the public instead.
Fair point, I thought, but what better way to hopefully prove my point that loose leaf
tea is better than teabag tea than to get children to taste the difference?
They have no bias.
Do you know which one should be better?
Ines : Hmm?
I think it should be that one?
Don : You think the teabag should be better?
Hmm?
Okay.
What about you?
What do you think is going to be better?
Estella : Teabag.
Don : [laughter] You think the teabag is going to be better.
There you go.
So what we're going to do is we're going to do a blind tasting.
So are we going to brew this up now?
Ines : MmmHmm!
Don : Yeah?
We're you doing "silly faces" while I was talking?
Ines and Estella : [laughter]
Don : You were, weren't you?
You were doing "silly faces"?
Okay, that means you can do your most silly face.
Estalla : [MAKING SILLY FACE]
Ines : [laughter]
Don : [laughter] Okay.
All right.
Sit up.
Sit up now.
The whole world is watching you and your silly faces, so be careful what you do.
This will be around for a long time.
Okay.
So [the] teabag goes in here, and we're pouring boiling water over.
I'm not going to give this a rinse, obviously, [because] this is a teabag.
I'm going to let it brew for a short period of time - maybe about 30 seconds, because
it's a small amount of water.
Then we're going to strain this off, and then I'm going to be brewing this tea.
This tea is "Little Tong Mu".
[It's] a new tea that we have in stock, and it's a really, really lovely, unsmoked Lapsang
[tea] from Fu Jian province.
Estella : Don't look in your phone!
Don : Don't look at my phone.
I know.
That's true.
Thank you.
But I needed to focus, you see?
But you're right.
I shouldn't look at my phone too much.
Okay.
We're going to pour this off here.
Do you like the look of that?
Lucy : Ooh.
Don : Ooh?
What do you think?
Ines : It looks very goldeny, and yellow, orangy.
Don : Okay.
Let's pour it out, and then you can see what it looks like.
What color is that, do you think?
Estella : Reddy, black tea.
Ines : It looks like reddy, browny.
Estella : "Reddy browny".
Don : "Reddy-brownie".
That's pretty good.
[That's a] pretty good color you are suggesting there.
Okay, so that is the teabag tea.
We'll put that ever here, and now we're going to brew this one.
This is a loose leaf tea.
Can you see the difference?
One's in a bag, and one's loose, yeah?
Ines : Yeah.
Don : Okay.
So we're going to give this a quick rinse.
[Be] careful girls.
I don't want to burn you.
Then we're going to see [if] the color is different, yeah?
We can see if it's...
Do you think it's going to be darker?
Do you think it's going to be lighter?
What do you think?
Estella : I think it's going to be [lighter].
Ines : Me too.
Don : You think it's going to be lighter?
Ines : I think it's actually going to be darker.
Don : You think it's going to be darker.
Okay.
Estella : I think it's going to be lighter.
Don : Okay.
Then we need to put you in blindfolds, but we don't have any blindfolds, so I've just
got my t-shirts here.
Is that okay?
They're clean.
I promise.
You can smell it?
Does it smell funny?
Ines : I smells of flowers.
Don : It smells of flowers?
Oh, that's because Uncle Don always smells of flowers.
Ines : [laughter]
Don : Come a bit closer.
Okay, here we go.
So this is "Little Tong Mu".
Let's see if it's lighter or if it's darker.
You ready?
Ines : Yeah.
Don : Oh...
Estella : I knew it was lighter.
Don : You knew it was lighter, did you?
Estella : Yeah.
Don : Okay, so now I'm going to show the color of this liquor to the camera.
Hold on.
So it's lighter?
What color would you say that is?
Ines : Gold!
Don : Gold?!
You are very good.
Both of you are very good.
So dark red and brown, and gold.
Okay.
Now, I'm going to blindfold you.
Are you ready?
Turn around.
Now you have to promise you're not going to cheat, okay?
Ines : Okay.
I don't see anything.
Don : I don't want to pull your hair, so I'm sorry if I hurt you.
Can you see anything?
Ines : No,
Don : Promise?
Ines : Promise.
Don : Okay.
Stay like that.
I promise we won't do anything.
[TO ESTELLA] Turn around.
Turn around!
Okay.
Ines : It feels like I'm sleeping.
Don : It feels like you're sleeping?
Ines : Yeah, because I don't see anything.
Don : Yeah.
Let me see you.
[laughter]
Estella : It's [loose].
Don : It's a bit loose?
Estella : Yeah.
Don : Okay.
Hold on.
I don't want to pull your hair, that's all.
Sorry.
Is that better?
Estella : Yes.
Don : Is that more tight?
... Yeah?
Ines : The only problem is I cannot blink that well.
Don : [laughter] You can't blink that well.
Did you shut your eyes before I put them on?
Okay, anyway, this will be quite quick.
All right.
So now, girls, I don't want you to say which one you prefer.
I want you to only think the one you prefer, okay?
So you're not allowed to say it out loud, okay?
I'm going to give you two teas.
One of them is going to be called "Number #1", and one of them is going to be called
"Number 2".
Just in case we have very suspicious YouTube people out there, I'm going to say "heads"
will be this one, [and] "tails" will be the other we.
We have "tails".
So that means we're going to be starting with this one.
Okay.
Are you ready?
Put your hands out.
Estella, you first.
We've got very little cups here.
If you want to know about the safety level of teas, and caffeine content, and stuff,
check out that other video.
Okay, Estalla, two hands...
two hands.
Use your other hand as well.
Yeah?
Can you hold that?
Okay.
You can take a sip, and slowly, slowly taste it.
Okay, your turn Ines.
Ines : Yeah.
Don : Okay, [use] two hands.
Here you go.
Right.
Now, I want you to you to really concentrate on the taste, okay?
Concentrate on the taste [to] see which one you're going to prefer.
Tell me when you're ready, but don't say which one you prefer.
Ines : I'm ready.
Don : You're ready?
Okay, so that was number one, okay?
Estella : I'm ready.
Don : You're ready, too?
Okay.
I'm going to take those cups from you.
So I'm taking this one, and I'm taking this one.
Estella : That was number one.
Don : That was number one, yes.
Now here's number two.
You're ready?
Here's number two for you.
Don't say which one your prefer yet.
Just taste.
Tell me when you're ready.
This is where everything is one the line.
Are you ready?
Estella : Yes.
Don : Okay, so now I'm going to take the blindfolds off.
Ready?
Ah!
Now you can blink.
Ah!
Yes?
Estella : Yes.
Don : Right.
Now we need to get some paper for you.
Okay.
Here you go.
Here's a piece of paper for you, and a piece of paper for you.
Do you know which one if your favorite?
Don't say!
But do you know which one is your favorite?
Ines : MmmHmm.!
Yes.
Don : Okay.
So now I want you to write "number one" or "number two" here.
Which is your favorite, number one or number two?
Okay.
Are you ready?
You're going to show the cameras now.
Ready?
One...two...three...Estella, you've picked "number one" - [that's] a beautiful "one"
there.
Ines, have you picked the same?
Or have you picked "number two"?
"Number one" as well?!
Congratulations girls!
Ines : Which one's number one?
Don : Number one was the loose leaf tea.
So now you can talk about it.
Now you can talk.
Why did you think that this one was better?
Ines : Because [that one] was a tiny bit more stronger.
Don : Stronger?
Ines : Yeah.
Don : Did it taste a little bit bitter to you?
Ines : Mmm?
Don : Or was it just not as nice for you?
Ines : [It was] just a tiny bit bitter.
Don : [A] tiny bit bitter.
What did you think?
Estella : Um, not nice.
Don : [laughter] Not nice?
Well, what did you not like about it?
What was it that you didn't like?
Estella : It was very different, and I don't like the taste of it.
Don : It was different, and you don't like the taste of it.
Do you want to see what's inside those teabags?
Ines : Yes.
Don : Do you think there's worms in there?
Ines : No.
Don : [laughter] Here, you can take a look at what's inside those teabags.
Okay?
Let me do it here.
All right.
[Are] you ready [to] take a look?
Ines : Yes...
Oh my goodness!
Don : Oh my goodness!
That's just dust, isn't it?
Ines : Yes.
Don : So they take those tea leaves and then they grind it into dust, but the difference
is they don't use good tea leaves.
They don't use good tea leaves.
So this is dust.
This is tea dust.
This is why loose leaf tea is always better than teabags.
Okay, so now I want you to -- since you've chosen the winner; you're both my favorite
nieces for doing that.
You know that?
You really have proven everything right, and you're going to get the best dinner you want.
You can have anything you want.
Okay, so have a smell of this now, and I want you to tell me what you smell.
Ines : I smell spinach rolls.
Don : Spinach rolls?
Okay.
Like "Greek" spinach rolls?
Ines : Mmm?
Yeah.
Don : Yeah?
[laughter] Well, yeah.
What do you smell?
Estella : Peach.
Don : Peach?
Ines : Again.
Don : You can keep smelling.
Do you smell any flowers?
Do you smell any wood?
Ines : I smell woody flowers.
Don : [laughter] Okay.
What else?
Anything else?
Ines : And seaweed.
Estella : Um, seaweed leaves.
Don : Seaweed leave?
[SMELLS TEA] Okay.
[For] this "Little Tong Mu" [we'll] be doing a video about "Little Tong Mu" in the future.
Estella : A little bit more.
Just a little bit more tea.
[SIPS TEA]
Don : Would you like a little bit more?
Okay.
Ines : Can I try that one again?
Don : You can try, yeah.
So these kids, with these small cups, they can quite happily -- Hey, hey!
Sit down...
They can quite happily drink a few of these cups, and that's fine.
Estella : Can I try?
Don : Don't drink that one.
Come on.
Drink a good one.
Estella : Can I try it -- a tiny bit?
Don : Yeah, here.
You can drink this one.
Oh, you want to [try] the teabag again?
Estella : Yeah.
Don : Okay.
Here you go.
Ines : Just a little.
Estella : Actually, not the teabag.
Don : The loose leaf?
Estella : No, the teabag one.
Don : Yeah, the teabag one.
Okay.
Here, I'll give you a little bit.
Estella : A tiny bit.
Don : [You] see?
They're very inquisitive tasters.
But the lesson here is -- and I hope that that person [who] made that comment saying
that it wasn't fair [because] I wasn't doing blind tasting - that has been put to rest.
Even a child can taste the difference between teabags and loose leaf tea.
Isn't it?
Ines : Yeah.
Don : Are you going to keep drinking that one?
Ines : MmmHmm.
Don : Okay, sit down, because we need to say goodbye to YouTube now.
Ines : Bye, YouTube.
Don : No, no. [laughter] Sit down.
We need to do it properly.
Here.
You can have another little bit of loose leaf.
There you go.
Enjoy.
Ines : Bye, YouTube.
[laughter]
Don : [laughter] That's funny.
Estella : Bye... bye YouTube.
Don : We're going to do it properly now.
Ines : Bye, YouTube.
Don : There you go, guys.
I'm going to keep drinking with my nieces, [and] then we're going to have dinner.
Ines : Yes.
Don : Hey!
None of the "silly faces".
You need to look pretty now.
Come on.
Let's all look pretty towards the camera, and we're going to say : That's it teaheads.
If you made it to the end of this video then please give the video the thumbs-up.
[TO KIDS] Thumbs-up!
Thumbs-up!
Estella : [THUMBS-UP] Thumbs-up.
Ines : [THUMBS-UP] Bye, teaheads!
[laughter]
Don : Hey!
Wait...wait...wait!
Check out our YouTube playlists and let us know if there are any videos that you would
like us to make.
If you're ever in London then come and visit us in Camden to say "Hi!" and taste our wares.
If you have any questions or comments then please fire them over.
Other than that, I'm Don Mei from Mei Leaf, with my nieces, Estella.
[TO ESTELLA] Say "Ba-bye".
Estella : Ba-bye.
Don : Look in the camera
Estella : Ba-bye YouTube [WAVING]
Don : And Ines.
Ines : Bye-bye teaheads [laughter]
Don : [laughter] .Thank you for being a part of the revelation of true tea.
Stay away from those teabags, keep drinking the good stuff, and spread the word, because
nobody deserves bad tea.
Don : Bye!
[WAVING]
Ines : Bye, teaheads!
[WAVING AND MAKING SILLY FACE]
Estella : Bye teaheads [WAVING]