One nice thing about writing about my love of tea on Dayre is that it helps me connect with other tea lovers in Singapore, such as Esther. She invited me and Cher to go the the introductory oolong class, organised by Chenjing Tea House yesterday and it was such fun! I’ve been for a few… Read More Oolong Introductory Class at Chenjing Tea House
Recently, my company received a few tins of matcha, so we’ve been having matcha pretty much every day. I can’t drink too much, but since we’re sharing the matcha, I’ve been able to drink a little every day and you can’t believe how happy I am about it (of course, I have to drink water… Read More Much Ado about Matcha
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?
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 post starts with an admission of failure. In an effort to try and drink up as many teas as possible, I’ve been limiting the number of teas that I’ve opened and just focusing on them. And since I pretty much drink those few teas until they’re finished [1], I’ve just been using clips such… Read More Tea 101: Storing Tea
I prefer to drink my tea straight, but my dad likes his tea with milk and sugar and I found this really interesting passage in The Black Tea Bible so I thought I’d share it with everyone today! I never really thought about what to put in my tea (because that does not come naturally… Read More Tea 101: Milk, Sugar, and Lemon
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
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