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Tag Archives: Chinese tea
Broken Cup, Empty Leaves
The teacup bears the scars of a collision with a much larger gaiwan, a trauma it was never going to recover from.
Huo Shan Huang Ya
Just after our summer holiday I felt I was in a bit of a rut tea-wise.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Huo Shan Huang Ya, tea, teaism, yellow tea
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2003 Menghai Shou Pu-erh
When you start to delve deeper into the mysterious world of Pu-erh, you tend to run across one name again and again – that of the Menghai Tea Factory.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked, Menghai Tea Factory, Pu-erh, ripe, shou, tea, teaism, Yunnan
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Steepers on the Storm
6:00 am, and my furry brown feline Burmese overlord is making it abundantly clear that it is way past what he considers to be a reasonable hour for breakfast.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, lightning, storm, tea on the balcony, tea outdoors, thunder
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Mandarin Shou, Part 2
This is the somewhat delayed follow up post to my earlier experiment in jacking loose leaf shou Pu-erh with the flavour of Chinese mandarin peel – you can read that post here.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, flavoured tea, mandarin peel, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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The Postman Always Steeps Thrice
I had some good news today – my latest order from House of Tea arrived.
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Tagged Ba Da, Chinese tea, Da Ye, Huo Shan Huang Ya, Meng Hai, Oolong, Pu-erh, sheng, shou, tea, teaism, yellow tea
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Party Tea
Summer in Scandinavia can feel sometimes like a “blink and you’ll miss it” affair.
Posted in tea thoughts
Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh, shou, summer, tea, tea outdoors, teaism
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The Bottom of the Caddy
You know before opening the caddy that this will be the last session with that particular tea. The caddy feels unusually light, and the few lonely leaves left inside make an odd, metallic scraping noise as they slide about.
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Tagged Chinese tea, gaiwan, Silver Needle, tea, teaism, white tea
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Green Tea With Lemongrass
A post over at Cat’s Tea of the Day got me thinking about lemongrass flavoured green tea.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, lemongrass, organic tea, tea, teaism
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Midsummer Magic
We’re coming up to the long Midsummer weekend here in Sweden, and like many other families we’ll be de-camping to the countryside for some fun and games with the extended clan.
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Tagged Bu Lang Sheng, Chinese tea, Green gunpowder, midsummer, Oolong, raw Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh, tea, teaism, travelling, Wu Yi Shan Qi Lan
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