I had a free morning last week and managed to go to Koda Cafe, where I was pleasantly surprised by the range of tea! I actually went to this cafe for their waffles, but when I saw their tea, I was quite surprised by the range they had. I think the only other cafe (apart… Read More Fukamushi Sencha @ Koda’s Cafe
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)
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
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!
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 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
Recently, I stumbled across a new local tea brand called ‘Teabirds‘. They had a very adorable Mother’s Day box for $20, and since my mom likes mint tea, my siblings and I decided to order a box for her! To be honest, the payment process wasn’t the most seamless because I had to send them… Read More Teabirds: Mother’s Day Box (The Cool Chick Tea)
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
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
Today, I want to introduce one of the teas that I bought in Kumamoto. It’s called 食べる緑茶 (Taberu Ryokucha) and it literally means “edible green tea”. This tea is from Izumi and if you believe the product page, it’s a super healthy tea to drink because the tea is powdered, which means that all the… Read More 食べる緑茶 (Taberu Ryokucha) + the Difference with Matcha