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Tag Archives: Chinese tea
Look After Your Leaves
As the saying goes “You can’t make good tea out of bad leaves, but you can make bad tea out of good leaves“.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Imperial Teas, tea, tea caddy, tea storage, teaism
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My First Taste Of Pu-erh
If you like beer, then Belgium, with its dizzying array of spectacular ales, is the place for you. If you actually move there, as we did, then initially it feels as though you are the proverbial kid who has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, Pu-erh, tea, tea and food pairing, teaism
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Tea Haiku No. 1
Red tea, dragon blood, Beats back the worst of winter, Stored essence of spring.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Dragon, Haiku, Oolong, poem, poetry, tea, teaism
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Put Some Pearls In Your Pot
It’s said that green gunpowder tea got its English name due to the fact that it resembled the explosive charge of the same name, both being small, round, darkly coloured pellets.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, tea and food pairing, teaism
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Paint Me A Pitcher
Serendipitea – a series of developments that leads, by chance, to the procurement of highly satisfactory teas and teaware.
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Tagged Blue Willow pattern, Cha hai, Chinese tea, gaiwan, Gong dao bei, serendipity, tea, teaism
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Here Be Dragons!
Longjing, which means Dragon Well, is a pan-fired green tea, which comes from from the area around Longjing Village, near Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province, China. The village itself is named after a well, the legendary home to “The Dragon … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, Dragon Well, green tea, Longjing, tea, teaism
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Everyday Oolong
Ever since the back-end of summer, when the days suddenly started getting noticeably shorter and cooler, this has been one of my go-to teas, one I drink on a daily basis.
Cups and Kites
I look at the pot and the cup in front of me. Their usefulness, their purpose, depends upon an essential emptiness that lies at the very centre of their existence.
Getting to Grips With Gaiwans
Introduction A gaiwan (“lidded bowl”) is a traditional piece of Chinese teaware, consisting of a saucer, bowl, and lid, which some believe represents the earth, one’s body, and heaven.
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Tagged Asian infusion, Chinese tea, gaiwan, gongfu tea, tea, tea culture, teaism
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The Last Cup
The kitchen is almost empty, and the light bulb shines down without so much as a shade around it, shockingly naked, giving the light it emits a hard, brittle feel. The only things left are an electric kettle, a now … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, green tea, leaving, moving house, tea, tea memories
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