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.
This was probably one of the first histories of tea that I read and the reason I know the difference between low tea and high tea (leading to the realisation that most restaurants in Singapore use the phrase ‘high tea’ wrongly). So obviously I had to revisit this book, if only to refresh my memory.… Read More Tea: The Drink that Changed the World by Laura C. Martin
On Saturday, I met up with Ethel (who blogs at flyeetelfly) for dinner and tea! I’ve been wanting to go to Hvala since I’ve heard of it and I was so glad that she agreed to come with me. So about Hvala: it’s this cafe that focuses on Japanese teas. That’s not too unusual in… Read More Hvala + Gift Teas!
Since reducing the amount of tea I drink, I’ve been slowly increasing the amount of tisanes I drink. And I’ve realised that one tisane I drink regularly is chamomile tea. In fact, I have three types of Chamomile tea, all varying in terms of complexity, and I was curious to see if I could taste… Read More 3 Types of Chamomile Tea – Taste Comparison
I found this book while looking for books about tea at the library. Since I don’t know much about Chinese tea, I thought that this would be a pretty interesting book to read. This dual-language (Chinese and English) book talks about: – Longjing (Dragon well) tea– Bi Luo Chun– Mao Feng, and– Ping Shui Ri… Read More 4 World Famous Chinese Green Teas by Jason C. S. Chen
I’ve been told by my doctor that I have to lay off the caffeine (which is my case means tea) as much as possible, so you’ll probably be seeing a lot more tisane and book reviews here for the next few weeks or so, until I give in to my tea addiction. In the meantime,… Read More Infusion-de-vie’s 5 Year’s Aged Premium Chenpi Puer
When I was in Japan, I had several brief encounters with the Japanese tea ceremony – sitting with my friends as they practiced before their lesson, attending the new year’s tea ceremony at Tenjin’s chikagai, and a one-off tea ceremony lesson during my finishing course. So when I changed upon Making Tea, Making Japan, I… Read More Making Tea, Making Japan by Kristin Surak
I’ve been doing some research on the health benefits of teas and tisanes for my job and I just realised that… there’s quite a lot of woo in tea. By ‘woo’, I mean people are making incredible health claims about tea. It’s actually not so bad for actual tea aka the tea made from the… Read More Is there too much woo in tea?
A friend went to Taiwan and got me this as a gift! This tea is a Red Jade Black tea and according to the description on the website, it’s made using the No. 18 cultivar, which itself is a cross between camellia sinensis var. assamica and the native Taiwanese tea plant. By the way, I’m still trying… Read More Red Jade Black Tea by Leaffree (自由葉)
I stumbled upon a tea find at the most recent Dayre tea party: These are blends from Typical Teas, a new tea brand by one of our Dayre Tea Party members!! Isn’t that amazing? And they were really kind and let me take away three packets to try (which I promptly shared with my office… Read More Dragon Dreams, Saigon Supreme, and Sandman’s Stardust by Typical Tea SG
Carrying on my plan to read more about tea, I started on For All the Tea in China, a book that deals with a very specific part of tea’s history: how tea and the knowledge of tea processing left China and made its way into the world. While the subtitle says “how England stole the… Read More For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose