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!
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
It took a bit longer than I expected, but Twilight Children is now available on all major e-retailers! I’m so, so happy that it’s now available for everyone to read and I hope that you are too! I won’t waste any more time blathering on (partly because I don’t really know what else to say)… Read More Twilight Children is Published!
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
