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Tag Archives: tea
The Tea Library – “Tea Wisdom”
A short and sweet review for a brilliant little book today.
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Tagged Aaron Fisher, books about tea, Global Tea Hut, tea, Tea Wisdom, teaism, Wu De
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Grandpa Style
If the gong-fu style of tea preparation, with its elaborate equipment, detailed methodology, and precise amounts and temperature control represents yin, then its yang can be thought of to be the “Grandpa style” method of steeping tea leaves.
2012 Ba Da Sheng Pu-erh
I can’t help it, but I’m a sucker for loose leaf sheng Pu-erh.
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Tagged Ba Da, Cha qi, Chinese tea, Pu-erh, raw Pu-erh, sheng, tea, teaism
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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.
Posted in review, tea diary, tea types
Tagged Chinese tea, Huo Shan Huang Ya, tea, teaism, yellow tea
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A Clear Winner
Regular readers of this blog will no doubt be aware of my somewhat lacklustre attempts to curtail my teaware habit.
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Tagged Chinese teaware, gaiwan, glass teaware, tea, teaism
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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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1993 Da Ye Oolong
I received this tea as a 3g sample along with my recent purchases from “House of Tea“, an amount which is usually acceptable for steeping gong-fu / Asian style in one of my 100ml capacity clay gaiwans.
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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Northern Teaist 