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Two more for the list, Tea Here Now by Donna Fellman & Lhasa Tizer (2005) and Alexandra Stoddard's Tea Celebrations (1994). Both of them try to combine tea ceremony ritual with American tea-practice. I didn't like Tea Here Now -- I think there are better books on Japanese tea ceremony and American t...

Some tea given to me by a non-tea drinker it was gifted to, a medium aged lower grade white affair. ./download/file.php?id=14344 After very slowly chipping away at the cake over time, I finally decided to throw it out because it feels off in the stomach. I never enjoy throwing tea away, but I have ...

The best tea when sad is tea with friends; the tea gives an excuse to meet and talk. ;) Fresh tea can help for focusing on new beginnings, while old tea (provided it has held up well) can help for perspective. But, sometimes a familiar tea is best, as it can be grounding. Even in the infinite tea-mu...

Part of this is based on who decides what the classics are. One pot has won over the internet, and that is the pot you have pictured. However, there were many other types of pots in the past. Sometimes ergonomics change when the use changes. Xishi pots were originally meant for drinking out of rathe...

More tinned Nor Sun; did the Hong Kong blender go out of business? The supply seems to have evaporated... fortunately I had a habit of buying extra tins when they were easy to find, so I still have a bit left. :D Tried some of this after a bit of "Taste of Hong Kong" from Yee On. Interesting contra...

I feel like maybe my unglazed teapot needs a tea-bath to clean up from all the tea-baths. :lol: The lid is now a distinctly different color than the body, and the bottom half is darker than the top half, only with more of a high-water-mark-from-the-flood effect than a cool fade, I'm guessing becaus...

Social media influencers rely on "movie magic"; I'm sure that the tea-craftsmen following ancient traditions are also listening to something on their phones as they work, and that the hike up tea mountain ends at a Starbucks slightly-out-of-frame. :lol: So, "Finance my tea adventures!" is really, "F...

Price-per-gram helps for commodity pricing. This is based on the assumption that every gram of the substance is equivalent to every other gram, sort of like calculating the price-per-gram of silver. This is a bit odd for tea because not all grams of tea are the same. They taste different, have diffe...

These appear to be that rare exception. I do not read Chinese, and the OCR translation app on my phone only does one ideogram at a time. Since I will be sharing samples with several other people, and also for my own education, I'd like to know what I have here. Box and cake labels and nei fei attac...

More tinned Nor Sun; did the Hong Kong blender go out of business? The supply seems to have evaporated... fortunately I had a habit of buying extra tins when they were easy to find, so I still have a bit left.

Supposedly this is related to the boiling of the water. When water is boiled a long time, it loses its aeration, which changes the taste of tea made with it. Thus, in many tea traditions where boiling tea is common, there is an aeration step before serving, such as the repeated pouring of the tea in...

Green oolong is also a lot more forgiving than black tea. Agreed, green oolong is more forgiving. Is this related to Chinese tea vs. Indian tea? I haven't had very many Assamica oolongs, but Indian black teas are definitely unforgiving if you ignore the 5-minute steep warning, while a Keemun is hap...

I've given up on Yuenyeung -- either too advanced for me, or I just don't like instant coffee. :lol: Gave this another go -- It's still not quite right, but I think I'm getting closer. :D Maybe using the wrong instant coffee? I think maybe I was using an instant coffee that was too nice. :lol: Swit...

Or Brooke Bond Super Dust, a name that would have seemed very odd outside of India, but that worked quite well inside for describing a fresh dust-grade tea liked by a variety of tea-drinkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsALWcsI2A A Brooke Bond India from today, for comparison: https://www.you...

I didn't think they were from the same supplier, but I've never done a side-by-side test. Maybe more important now that Nor Sun is getting harder to find -- did the company discontinue the brand?