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The Languages of Tea – Chinese

Tea Blog | November 6th 2009 by Online Stores, Inc

by Adam Yusko In the primer on Japanese tea words, you probably noticed the syllable “cha” came up often. That’s because Cha is the word for tea in most, if not all, of Southeast Asia. I find putting together a list of Chinese tea words wh read more

Monk’s Bliss by Mellow Monk

Tea Finely Brewed | October 25th 2009 by Eric Daams

How do you like my new tea set? I celebrated my birthday last week and got three new tea brewing devices: a porcelain gaiwan, a yixing teapot and this one, a simple Japanese teapot with a large infuser basket. It has been fun experimenting with read more

Monk's Bliss by Mellow Monk

Tea Finely Brewed | October 25th 2009 by Eric Daams

How do you like my new tea set? I celebrated my birthday last week and got three new tea brewing devices: a porcelain gaiwan, a yixing teapot and this one, a simple Japanese teapot with a large infuser basket. It has been fun experimenting with t read more

Tea Tip: Clean Teaware Prevents Breakage

Lainie Sips | October 19th 2009 by Lainie Petersen

I drink a lot of tea and use a lot of teaware. It isn’t uncommon for me to drink three, four, five different teas in a day. Some I brew in my Yixing pots, others I brew in a gaiwan or some other form of teaware: All under the watchful and beady read more

Keemun Mao Feng .ItoEn

TGFOP Tea Reviews | October 11th 2009 by Silverneedles

Tea notes> Black tea> Keemun (for more) ItoEn NY Store (review)(product link)9$/oz= 144/lb 10g of stuff doing the ikea glass ghettobrew 3.5g of stuff doing the fancy gaiwan review style infusion Dry: leaf looks smallish and quite broken read more

The Mini Green Tuocha Experiment

Tea Finely Brewed | October 8th 2009 by Eric Daams

4 cups of tuocha I am no expert on pu-erh tea, but I’m learning. Over the past few months I’ve tried several loose leaf pu-erhs, as well as a small pu-erh cake I picked up from Ten Ren here in Melbourne. Last week, I made my latest pu- read more

The Mini Green Tuocha Experiment

Tea Finely Brewed | October 8th 2009 by Eric Daams

4 cups of tuocha I am no expert on pu-erh tea, but I’m learning. Over the past few months I’ve tried several loose leaf pu-erhs, as well as a small pu-erh cake I picked up from Ten Ren here in Melbourne. Last week, I made my latest pu- read more

Give Me All Your Pu'erh

The Tea Pages Blog | September 20th 2009 by Katrina

Seven Cups Fine Chinese Tea in Tucson had an unfortunate experience that many businesses have - a break in. But, this one was a little different. The people who smashed their way through the front window at 3:00 in the morning weren't just seeking read more

Book Review: Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell

One Librarian's Book Reviews | August 12th 2009

Song Of The Sparrowis a beautiful book in verse telling the story of Elaine of Ascolot, commonly known as the Lady of Shalott. She grew up in the army camp with Arthur, Lancelot, Gaiwan, Tristan, and others of the round table, the only girl among th read more

Six Essential Factors for Brewing Good Tea 5

Fang Gourmet Tea Blog | August 10th 2009 by Fang Tea

One Tea One World, One Pot One Universe;In One’s Palm move the Heaven and Earth,With the delicate fragrance heart is contented.Choice of Tea WareThe material or texture of teapot plays a big role towards how well the tea will be brewed. There are read more