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Tag Archives: Pu-erh
Golden Peacock 2007 Shou Pu-erh
This purchase came about due to a combination of boredom and curiosity.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, Golden Peacock, Liming Tea Factory, Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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Clicking Mouse, Mailing Dragon
I’ve finally decided to get my feet wet and jump into the world of on-line tea buying.
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Tagged Bu Lang Sheng, Chinese tea, House of Tea, internet shopping, Oolong, Pu-erh, tea, tea shopping, teaism, Wu Yi Shan Qi Lan
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Hitting The Mainstream
It’s every music lover’s nightmare. A band you’ve followed from their early years suddenly, inexplicably, becomes popular, and you know that based on past events the end is probably nigh.
The Long Lost Kusmi And The Mini Beeng Cha
Things are starting to look up weather wise. I can’t be sure, but it did at least feel as though we had finally broken through the double-digit temperature barrier, albeit briefly.
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Tagged BB Detox, Chinese tea, Kusmi tea, Pu-erh, spring cleaning, tea, teaism
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Woeful Weekend Weather? Take Terrific Tea!
The weather can’t make its mind up. It’s oscillating wildly between prolonged bouts of rain and intermittent snow showers.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, foul weather, green tea, Longjing, Oolong, Pu-erh, tarry souchong, tea, teaism, West Lake, winter, Yunnan Gold
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Tea Shopping In Stockholm
After the tedium of a long and somewhat dull train journey the evening before, I was up early to plan the day’s fun and games.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Grace Tea House, Green gunpowder, green tea, Longjing, Pu-erh, Stockholm, tea, 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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Pork & Pu-erh
Yesterday I had the final portion of a pork casserole sat in the fridge, screaming to be eaten, and lunchtime seemed as good a time as any.
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Tagged Chinese tea, lunch, pork casserole, Pu-erh, tea, tea and food pairing
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My Tea Journey Begins
It was everything a semi-secret Chinese supermarket should be. It sat quite a way back from the roadside, down a side-street, with a non too obvious, small, advertisement encrusted door that you could quite easily miss if you didn’t already … Continue reading
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