My present expensive food fads include:
Japanese White Pearl Tea – A very light tea that comes as little jasmine flavoured balls that unfurl in hot water. Cute.
Sauternes – Stupendously lovely, honey sweet desert wine from Bordeaux. The sweetness comes from the fact the grapes are rotten when harvested. Lovely with chocoloate and rotten cheese.
I drink white pearl tea also and I love it. It tastes much nicer than the grassy taste of green tea.
I still haven’t tried the more expensive silver needles white tea but I’m assuming it tastes pretty much the same.