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.
After trying my first raw puer, I felt like having some ripe puer. I generally only have it at restaurants, and we have one cake that we got in Zhuhai lying around somewhere. But for convenience sake, and because I’m still not over the novelty of ball puer, I took some of the ripe ball… Read More Ripe Puer Balls from 云元谷
I have been longing to try these teas since we got them on teapasar (full disclaimer: I work for teapasar. But I paid for my teas because I am genuinely excited about them and I’m doing this in my non-work time). Especially since one of my colleagues got the green tea and it was fantastic… Read More Hachimanjyu Tea Farm’s Genmaicha and Black Tea
After reading Nicole’s review of Mei Mei Fine Tea’s Bing Dao Ancient Raw Pu’erh Tea Dragon Balls, I remarked to my colleague that the idea of puer balls was very cool and that I wished I could try them. Before I could say anything else, she pulled out a gorgeous can of – you’ve guessed… Read More My First Raw Puer
I’m currently typing this on my very cranky laptop that’s torturing me by suddenly hanging up (current forced restart count: 4). I don’t think I’ve hit save so often since school days! Luckily, I’ve been trying tea, which always puts me in a good mood. Today’s tea is a very special type of white tea… Read More Parchmen & Co.’s White Blossom
Recently, my company received a few tins of matcha, so we’ve been having matcha pretty much every day. I can’t drink too much, but since we’re sharing the matcha, I’ve been able to drink a little every day and you can’t believe how happy I am about it (of course, I have to drink water… Read More Much Ado about Matcha
I know I said no more teas for a while, but then I saw Kittea’s Year of the Pig tea and I was like “my gastric can’t get any worse”. Plus, this is a seasonal tea and I am such a sucker for seasonal items (living in Japan was so dangerous to my wallet). The… Read More Kittea’s Year of the Pig Tea
If you’ve been to a Chinese restaurant (especially one in Hong Kong), you’ve probably had puer. It’s a post-fermented tea and is said to aid digestion. I heard a lot of things about puer, about how Malaysia (and I suppose by extension, Singapore) are great places to age it, about how people buy them for… Read More Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic by Jinghong Zhang
Here’s another tea that I got from the Dayre Tea Exchange! I may have to go slow on the new teas after this because it seems like my gastric is back. Oh well, I had a good few weeks run of daily teas. This green tea is from Tafu and for some reason, I can’t… Read More Tafu’s Green Tea Powder（粉末緑茶）
I have wanted to read this book ever since I heard of it. Although I swing back and forth between reading the Western and Asian histories of tea, that’s because I want to get a sense of the whole picture. A Social History of Tea covers the rise and impact of tea in Britain and… Read More A Social History of Tea by Jane Pettigrew & Bruce Richardson
I might have mentioned it before, but I’m currently on a tea-buying ban. Unsurprisingly, there are tons of tea that I want to buy so I’ve redoubled my tea drinking efforts. So far, I’ve finished three teas and opened two new ones lying around. One of them was T2’s Lady Esmerelda’s Ultimate Dream Dictionary and the… Read More Two Lemony Teas