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Why would it be such a task for anyone to share how they typically brew tea? Why? Because I brew different teas differently at different times according to what time, what tea, what brewing options are available, and how I will be drinking the tea. Some examples... I heat water in an electric kettl...

Today it is Jiuqu Hongmei from a Hangzhou subsidiary of the Zhejiang Tea Group, ordered through Wing Hop Fung after fooling around with the ImportYeti Bill of Lading tracker and discovering that, for an American company, they direct-imported a lot of tea from the Zhejiang Tea Group. Interesting ins...

Wild stuff! Thanks for sharing.

Don't know Yardley.....and I between print and paper subscriptions to the LA Times when that article came out, so I missed it completely. Thanks for sharing the link.

Quite a pot to inspire such musings!

Perhaps even more Masson Trichrome than Haematoxylin and Eosin, agree.

Yowza. Blue. Drippy. The purple-red areas with pale spots are like H&E stained cells view under a microscope. Cool beans. And cute shape to boot.

I bought a variety of blacks from Yatra tea and I’m finally opening them....just in time for the opening of sparkling tea season as the weather turns warm. This conversation makes me happy!

That’s a very fancy label. So curious now as to what that tea was like.....

Beautiful. The blend is interesting: I’m trying to imagine the taste and thinking of rose water added to cinnamon in a rice pudding: if the floral and spice are delicately handled, should be as fine a taste as it is a fine vision.

I got a request to help someone decide how to start out with Tea Habitat's Dan Cong teas. I remember that first visit to her store, enjoying a tasting with her and she advised me to start with some of her 'commercial' Phoenix Oolongs--fine teas but distnguished by 'Phoenix oolong' on the label, not ...

Beautiful pieces and so interesting to see the tint in the porcelain based on iron content.

The deep pools in his chawa s are so lovely....

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I grew up licking the beaters after making cookies & cakes, so I totally get the idea!