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.
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
Since I spent last year doing quite a bit of general reading about tea, I thought I’d take it a bit more in-depth this year. That means taking both a wider look at the issues surrounding tea (hopefully there’s a contemporary book or blog I can read!) and going in depth into the history of… Read More Darjeeling by Jeff Koehler
Look at these stack of books: Doesn’t one of them look different from the rest? That’s because it’s tea!! My manager got me this for Christmas, along with a T2 teapot and I couldn’t wait to try it out! (Please note all the exclamation points that denote excitement) This fruit tisane is made of apple,… Read More Festive T2 Classics: Lady Esmerelda’s Ultimate Dream Dictionary
Ever since one of my friends in Britain sent me a picture of Yorkshire Tea’s Biscuit Brew, a tea that’s supposed to taste like tea and biscuits, I’ve been wanting to try it. Since I had relatives visiting England, I asked them to help me bring back: FIVE BOXES. This was definitely not intentional. I… Read More Yorkshire Tea’s Biscuit Brew
This is my last year-in-review post, and it’s going to be one of the hardest to write because there’s no list that I can refer to; I keep track of my favourite books + all my podcasts are in one app so those were relatively easy to organise. But, I’m very excited about writing this post… Read More 2018 in Tea