Plastic Tea Pot

Last night a friend of mine served us his best Taiwanese tea (Alisan tea), but for some reasons, the tea tasted like water. First I questioned the quality of the tea he bought. He must have bought some cheap and fake Alisan tea. But then I tried his other selections, they were still all tasted like water. It's like the flavour never came out of the leafs. My other friend kept saying that the tea was good. Boy, she was either just trying to be nice and fake it or she had no idea what real good tea tastes like.

Anyways, I checked out his equipments and I realized that he was using a plastic Japanese tea pot all along. Immediately I thought that must be the reason for the bad tea he's been serving all night. It seems like the plastic tea pot, compare to the usual ceramic ones, can never absorb enough heat inside the pot to bring out the real flavour of the tea.