At the first Dayre Tea Party, someone told me that Kittea had really great teas at reasonable prices, so I hunted down one. Soon after that, I was gifted another one, so I have the happy situation of having two teas to try. The first Kittea I tried was The Sphynx, which I heard great… Read More Kittea’s The Sphynx and The Norwegian Forest
“You broke her? How could you break the new model so soon?” Everyone peered at the newest worker. She was sitting at a terminal, methodically transferring names from the list that was faxed over into the system. There had to be over a hundred names in there. West went to take a look. The robot… Read More Robot (Short Story)
This tea blog is still really small but I’m really happy to have a guest post today! My Chinese tea shifu, Cherine, wrote a really great post about Gaiwans recently and she agreed to share it here! It’s not something that I have much experience with, but her post makes me want to go out… Read More Guest Post: Gaga over Gaiwan
I mentioned before that I lost this tea. Well, luckily for me, someone at the Dayre Tea Party bought the Sakura Vert Tea and she let me bring some home to try! [This is normally where I’d put a picture but turns out I lost the tea and pictures.] So here is an image from… Read More Lupicia’s Sakura Vert Tea
Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend a tea pairing workshop at the Parchmen Academy of Coffee and Tea. I’ve never been to a workshop like this before (the one at Tea Chapter was my first tea workshop) so I was a little bit nervous. I mean, I’m sure it’s not like school but… Read More Theanine! Tea Pairing Workshop
We had our second Dayre Tea ParTEA yesterday! The tea parTEA (really loving the pun here so sorry for the overuse) started off as a way to meet online friends and enjoy tea at the same time. And of course, some of us were also hoping that by bringing our teas to the parTEA, we… Read More 2nd Dayre Tea ParTEA
I’m not quite sure how I found this book but it was a pleasant and surprisingly comprehensive quick read. Like the title says, Tea: A Global History is about the history of tea, with a few recipes at the end. Most tea histories that I’ve seen focus on the West, despite tea’s origins and long… Read More Tea: A Global History by Helen Saberi
I was originally going to do a review of the two sakura teas I had, but like I mentioned earlier, one of them went missing before I had the chance to try them. It’s a mysteary and a source of sadness (okay, I exaggerate. Somewhat) for me but at least I still have this left!… Read More Lupicia’s Sakura and Berry Tea
On Sunday, I went for the Tea Chapter Tea Appreciation workshop! They have a tea appreciation course, but that takes place over a few days and costs about $200, so we went for the one-day course, well it was an hour or two but you get time to drink the teas so it took us… Read More Tea Chapter’s Tea Workshop
Apart from the Teapig’s Snooze tea, I also picked up Harada’s Yabukita Blend teas at Cafe Asia. To be honest, a large part of why I bought the teas was because the people selling them were Japanese and it was fun to speak to them. That and at $5 a box, the teas were reasonably… Read More Harada’s Yabukita Blend Teas
