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Tea Haiku No. 2
Green tea, sweet as hay, Leaves awaken, greet the dawn, Perfumed call to spring.
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Tagged Chinese tea, green tea, Haiku, poem, poetry, tea, teaism
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Biluochun – The Green Snail of Spring
Biluochun is yet another tea that invariably makes an appearance on any variant of the Famous Teas of China list, and as such is a tea well worth getting to know. The name of this tea translates as “Green … Continue reading
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Tagged Biluochun, Chinese tea, Green Snail Spring, green tea, tea, tea and food pairing, teaism
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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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Mint Tea!
In “The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook“, by Mary Lou & Robert J. Heiss, the section on Green Gunpowder tea mentions the fact that Green Gunpowder is more often than not used as the starting point for North African mint teas.
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Tagged Green gunpowder, green tea, mint tea, Morocco, tea, tea and food pairing, tea culture, teaism
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Green Tea, Red Pill
Six a.m. I start my morning tea ritual, and as the well rehearsed movements begin the conscious mind is uncoupled, and decides to go off on a quick jaunt.
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Tagged Dao, Douglas Adams, James Norwood Pratt, Matrix, Morpheus, tea, teaism, The End Of Mr. Y, zen
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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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