Thursday, May 22, 2008

International Tea and Coffee




We have blogged before about the massive selection of teas International Tea and Coffee has. There is usually good music and beautiful art on the walls. But the art we discovered one morning there was art of a temporary nature. It was breakfast, and it was beautiful.
For our tea selections, we chose Red Clover and Bancha. Red Clover is an herbal tea and can best be described as summer in a cup. Bancha is a green tea and one of our all time favorites. What is better than a hot cup of tea at the beginning of a chilly May morning? Accompanying it with a dish called "Asian Sunrise". Before my pot of Bancha finished steeping, before I made it through the first section of the Indianapolis Star, my plate arrived at the table. The "Asian Sunrise" is a hearty little breakfast, but in an energizing way (as opposed to a full order of biscuits and gravy-I need a nap kind of way).
Hot noodles are tossed in soy and sesame oil, with peppers, onions and mushrooms, and are placed on the plate to act as a bed for two fried eggs, with the yolks cooked hard, but still retaining the bright yellow, just like dual suns waking me up. It comes garnished with a tomato slice, and a few slices of cucumber.
At $5.75, this is now one of our favorite ways to start a day.

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