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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
