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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.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh, shou, summer, tea, tea outdoors, teaism
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Sevan’s Ceylon Saves The Day…
As I gazed forlornly into the two open tea caddies it dawned on me that I might have miscalculated somewhat.
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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A Different Sort of Cliff Tea
Every tea event is unique in its own way – the hundreds of variables concerning water, leaves, people and the tea drinking environment could never be replicated.
Les Grandes Vacances
It’s that time of the year again, when Clan Teaist decamps to our place in the country for our summer holiday.
Just Steepin’ In The Rain…
Well, my pledge to cut back on the teaware buying didn’t get too far.
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Tagged charity shop, Oolong, rain, tea, teaism, teaware, Wu Yi Shan Qi Lan
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You Can Never Have Too Many Teapots…
I know I’d previously said that I was placing a moratorium on the purchase of any new teaware, but that ruling came with the proviso that I would still allow myself to buy anything suitably unusual or interesting, such as … Continue reading
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