Recently, I was at a friend’s wedding when I started talking about tea (no big surprise). I said something along the lines of “white teas and green teas have more caffeine”, which my seatmate disagreed with heartily. A quick google search proved me wrong, but I was really confused as to why I had that… Read More Tea 101: How Much Caffeine is there in Tea?
Today’s tea is another gift from Ethel! I’m really lucky to have friends who keep me in mind when they drink tea overseas <3 When Ethel came back from her trip to Myammar, she brought back some black tea. The back of the packet, which has more information about the tea. I don’t know much… Read More Rangoon Tea House’s Sweet Black Tea “Cho Chauk”
When I met Ethel about two weeks ago, she gave me a bunch of teas from her recent travels, including this Taiwanese drip tea from Sonbérnor (松柏農)! I was super excited about these teas because I’ve never even thought of applying the concept of drip coffee to tea. The pack is filled with individual tea… Read More Sonbérnor (松柏農) Jasmine Green Tea (Drip Tea)
I first heard about this book from NPR’s article “From Raucous To Ritzy: A Brief History Of Christmas Tea” (would recommend this if you want to know about more about how Christmas tea came about!). The book sounded interesting and since the NLB had it, I decided to borrow it. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise how… Read More A Thirst for Empire by Erika Rappaport
So I’ve been back in Singapore for over half a year, yet it feels like no time has passed. It’s been great being able to spend time with Singaporean friends and family (especially since most of the people my age have graduated and are back in Singapore too) but the more I meet up with… Read More my heart in two places
My last post shared what I learnt about tea and the temperance movement. In this post, I want to share what I learnt about the tea adulteration (a pretty scary concept) because it’s got a much longer history than I imagined. The first time I realised that tea wasn’t as straightforward as I thought was… Read More The Long History of Fake and Adulterated Tea
I’m currently making my way through a second, quicker, round of A Thirst for Empire by Erika Rappaport (it’s one of those huge books filled with so much information that one read isn’t enough) and I thought I’d share some of the things that I’m learning. One of the things that the book talks about… Read More Tea and Temperance
Sanpin tea is fairly easy to find in Japan, but it was only on my trip to Okinawa that I became aware and enamoured of it. It tasted like Jasmine tea, but slightly different [1] and I ended up buying a packet to bring home and share with my family. Today, as I was drinking… Read More The Difference between Sanpin tea and Jasmine 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!
