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Notes From The Road – Two Jugs and a Spoon
A good tea person will always be ready to adapt his or her tea making technique as circumstances dictate, and this is never more true as when you’re away from home.
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Tagged Cha hai, Chinese tea, Gong dao bei, Oolong, Pu-erh, shou, tea, tea pitcher, teaism
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Tea Break…
Clan Teaist are hitting the road again.
Morning Decadence
I woke up to a faultless blue sky, and a low blanket of sea mist carpeting the grassy area that sits behind the beach opposite our home.
Spring Has Sprung
May Day, widely recognised as the first proper day of spring hereabouts, dawned bright and somewhat breezy.
Bonfires and Dragons
Last night, the 30th of April, Valborg, or Walpurgis Night as it is known in English, was celebrated here in Sweden.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Oolong, tea, teaism, Valborg, Walpurgis, Wu Yi Shan Qi Lan
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A Fair Crack of the Whip
I was drinking my early morning pot of green tea when a thought occurred – I’d only used the tea boat from the clay teaware collection I picked up in Stockholm last month.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Chinese teapot, Chinese teaware, mini beeng cha, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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Mandarin Peel Shou Pu-erh, Take 1
This was a follow on experiment from my earlier attempt to flavour loose leaf shou Pu-erh tea with dried chrysanthemum flowers. The idea itself was inspired by the fact that it is possible to buy shou Pu-erh artfully wrapped in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, flavoured tea, mandarin peel, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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South of the Clouds
Today was all about two Pu-erh sessions.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Chinese teapot, Chinese teaware, Pu-erh, sheng, shou, tea, tea boat, teaism, Yunnan
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Start As You Mean To Go On
In his classic novella “The Langoliers” Stephen King describes the usually unseen world that exists either side of the present moment.
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Tagged Bai Sha Lu, Chinese tea, green tea, Langoliers, Stephen King, tea, teaism
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Northern Teaist 