A friend of mine came back from Japan recently and she gifted me this packet of teas as omiyage! I love Japanese teas so even though I’ve still got quite a lot of loose leaf green teas left, I decided to try this as soon as I could. This set of three consists of three… Read More Tea Tasting: 3 Teas from 祇園辻利 (Gion Tsujiri) + Mini Mysteary
I never thought that I would have a third round of this but here we are. After my last post, the idea of comparing the cold brew versions of the teas stuck in my mind until finally, I couldn’t ignore the idea any longer. This was the easiest round to prepare because all I needed… Read More Trying 3 Japanese Green Tea Cultivars (Round 3)
All the way back in October, I wrote about trying 3 different Japanese green tea cultivars and finding the differences (or lack thereof). In that post, I mentioned wanting to try devoting a week of tea drinking to each tea, something that I managed to do! As it turns out, I forgot that I wanted… Read More Trying 3 Japanese Green Teas Cultivars (Round 2)
I bought this tea for a very shallow reason: I liked the name. In my defence, I really do love books and it is so hard to resist anything that combines two of my favourite hobbies (see also: books about tea. I’m definitely going to be A Thirst for Empire sometime in the future). I’ve… Read More Tea Review: Book Lover by Karel Capek
On my trip to Japan, I found out that bubble tea is having a bit of a moment. It’s a bit of a surprise, because Singapore is already in round 2 of the bubble tea boom. But our bubble tea craze never resulted in bubble tea-related products such as this instant bubble tea that I… Read More Trying Instant Bubble Tea from Japan
I mentioned in my Hachimanjyu Tea Farm visit post that I didn’t get to buy tea made only from the kuritawase cultivar. It’s a pity that I couldn’t try it, but on the other hand, I did manage to get my hands on single-cultivar green teas. Three of them, in fact. Two of the teas… Read More Trying 3 Different Japanese Green Tea Cultivars (Round 1)
For someone who just came back from a week in Japan, I didn’t have that much tea. I did visit a tea farm (which I cannot wait to write about once I settle into this new job) but other than that, I can only think of three instances where I had tea and wanted to… Read More Teas I had in Japan
This was one of the tea brands that was at the Singapore Tea Festival! They’re also in the VIP bag, but their teas sold out really fast and the only one that I managed to buy (and hence have enough to properly taste and review) would be their Scarlet Roasted Tea. Arinobu Tea is a… Read More Tasting Scarlet Roasted Tea by Arinobu Tea
So this is the last ‘new’ tea that I have in my tea cabinet. I never thought I’d get to this stage, but I guess after this, it’s time to focusing on finishing what I have (so that I can buy more tea). Marco Polo is the second tea in the set of two that… Read More Mariage Frères’ Marco Polo
Growing up in Singapore, I never knew about Mariage Frères. If you mentioned local tea brands, when I was young, I probably wouldn’t have known any. By the time I left for university, the only brands I knew would be The 1872 Clipper Tea Co. and TWG. But when I moved overseas, I learnt about… Read More Mariage Frères’ Earl Grey Imperial