Blooming Tea: Peach Momotaro

This Christmas my boyfriend gave me a unique and delicious gift, a double walled glass tea travel mug with blooming tea. Yes, tea that blooms. It's so much fun to watch, and absolutely delicious to drink. I got two flavours, A strawberry white tea, and a peach white tea. The pictures bellow are the peach tea: peach momotaro.

Here is the tea ball. It's a little smaller then a ping pong ball, and looks quite uninteresting. See what happens when I add some boiling water..

It floats!

And then it starts to expand...

...and expand..

..and expand...

..and then it's done, and you have a lovely hot mug of tea with a flower in it. I almost forgot, it does one more thing...

It eventually sinks to the bottom. This particular flower makes me think of the plants in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, where the Grindylows live, in the black lake. I can assure you, it tastes MUCH better than lake water :)