I love tea and my definition of what counts as a tea-related post is pretty wide. Expect to see tea reviews, reviews of books about tea, and even posts about afternoon tea.
I have never really been into journalling, but a side effect of getting on the more visual side of the internet (i.e. Instagram) is that I am filled with the urge to fill in all those unused notebooks prettily. While I’m still working on finding a way to make a physical book journal work for… Read More 3 Reasons Why You Should Keep a Tea Journal
This review has been a long time in the making. I originally wanted to post this in early October, but I forgot to bring the tea with me into Malaysia and I didn’t want to write a review without spending at least two sessions with the tea (just to make sure my first session was… Read More Tea Review: Malawi Zomba Pearls White Tea from What Cha
Continuing on with the tea reviews! I’ve still got another 2 Georgian teas before I’ve sampled everything in my What-Cha haul, and then I can move on to the Christmas teas (okay, getting ahead of myself). Today’s tea is from Jun Chiyabari, whom I follow on Instagram so I was really excited to try this!… Read More Tea Review: Jun Chiyabari’s Hand-Rolled Tippy Oolong Tea
A while back, one of my friends posted about a very intriguing taobao find: a tea steamer. Instead of a regular kettle with a filter, this tea steamer is supposed to make tea by steaming it (and condensing the steam into tea). According to their promo material, this is a good way for making tea… Read More Teaware: Tea Steamer vs Gaiwan
Earlier this year, my friend gave me a box of Karel Capek teas! I’ve actually ordered a lot more since then (think they are on the way to Singapore) but in the mean time, I’ve been having a lot of fun with these. Since they’re just individual teabags, I thought I’d just write some quick… Read More Quick Tea Reviews: Karel Capek Tea Box
Time for another tea review! This Darjeeling tea was a sample that came with What Cha order, and I was so happy there was enough for two gongfu sessions! So we have one session at home and one session at the office, in between work. First Impressions The dry leaves are pretty small but pretty!… Read More Tea Review: Darjeeling Gopaldhara Golden Tips Black Tea from What Cha
Good news: I thought I procrastinated on this for a year, but I only took half a year to read this! Honestly, it should have taken much less time, given that the subject matter is lighter than my other Japanese books, but I pretty much just left the book alone until quarantine, where I finished… Read More Reading in Japanese: The History of England’s Teacups by Cha Tea (英国ティーカップの歴史)
I’m always happy to read books about tea, and finding free books about tea makes me even happier. A Bowl for a Coin by William Wayne Farris is a commodity history of tea in Japan, an angle of Japanese tea history that I’ve not really seen outside my Japanese tea instructor textbook (and even then,… Read More Tea Book Review: A Bowl for a Coin by William Wayne Farris
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll probably have figured out that I’m back in the office now. And as it turns out, I left one packet of opened sencha in the tea drawer before I left! The tea definitely isn’t bad but it’s been six months (in my defence, I thought I’d be away… Read More I made my own Hojicha
Whew what a long name for a tea! I’ve gotta say, though, I also like long descriptive names because I have a much better understanding about what they’re supposed to taste like. Anyway, this is one of the two teas I brought into Malaysia with me (I’m hoping to make a dent in the tea… Read More Tea Review: Darjeeling Rohini 2020 Second Flush ‘Honey’ Oolong Tea by What Cha