I was running low on stuff that is already bagged up into tea-bags, and I couldn’t find it at Aldi anymore, so I bought some loose leaf of the spice, and I just tried it and found that it seemed to work better than the stuff in the bags. And you don’t have to make it strong, it works fine lightly-steeped. I just enjoyed a very nice bowl of Robert McConnell’s Latakia Flake just now and it was as good as I have ever tasted it.