For tea drinker's.

[OakLeaf]

I'd strongly recommend a basket rather than ball type strainer. Tea leaves expand when they get wet, and once they do, they choke water circulation out of a ball strainer. Something like this. Any kitchen store and many coffee/tea shops have them.

Elsewhere on Rishi Tea's site, you can click on any tea they sell and get the brewing instructions. Yep, it's simple. Especially with black tea, that's brewed with boiling water. The only thing that makes green and white tea slightly trickier is getting the water temperature right. (I've learned the sound that water makes in my electric kettle makes when it gets to 180°F, the temperature for brewing the mid-grade Sencha that's my daily tea.)

I also have a pump-type thermal bottle (like they keep hot water and coffee in some restaurants). So I'll heat a kettle full of water, dump it into the bottle, and then brew my tea one cup at a time. (Can't really recommend the combo bottles, the ones that both heat water and maintain the temperature with vacuum insulation - every one I've seen boils the water first then lets the temperature drop. That boils the oxygen out of the water, which you don't want with green or white tea, plus it means you have to set it up at night for the water to be green tea temperature by morning. But, if you'll only be drinking black tea and keeping the water just below 212°F, that might be an option for you.)

Extra simple method that doesn't require any accessories: put tea leaves and hot water into a measuring cup, infuse for the specified time, then strain through any kitchen strainer into your mug. That's how I brew herbal teas, so I don't mess up the flavor in my green tea basket.

Beware though: once you taste good tea, it's hard to go back. Stuff isn't cheap. And a metal cylinder of tea leaves will get your suitcase searched every. single. trip.