More than 180 articles exploring tea experiences around the world
Lucky Bags
More than one friend had told me that what they missed the most, after they left the States, were the freeways. While galloping on deserted...
Tea and Travel: My First Experience with Mint Tea in Morocco
When I was sharing my Morocco itinerary with friends over the last few months, one recommendation was consistently on every list: mint tea at Café...
Tea and Travel: Finding Comfort in Tea While Abroad
If you were given the chance to live abroad for a year, would you take it? My response was an absolute yes. It was a no-brainer decision when my...
Tea and Travel: 5 Alternative Spots for Tea in England
For as long as time, England has been synonymous with tea. While there have been many articles written in the past few years citing the decline of...
Herbacious Cocktails
The Broad, a new contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, opened almost a year ago. To obtain an admission ticket today, a visitor...
A Visit to Té Company New York
On a recent trip to New York City, I met a friend at a new tea bar called Té Company. The past few years, I have gone to Tea Drunk in East Village...
Teas in Peru
Tea has always been popular in Asia, Europe, and North America. What about tea culture in other parts of the world? In my recent travel to Cusco and...
The 2016 Malmö Garden Show
Some tourists visit Sweden's third-largest city Malmö to check off another Scandinavian country from their list. My objective was more complex....
Mason Jar
There is not a need for another post on "Mason jars" when so many have already been written. The Atlantic's article The Mason Jar, Reborn, published...
Top 10 Tea Towns: World’s Best Cities to Experience Tea Culture
Compiled by The Flavor Project & Eric Sensen Through sickness and through health, tea has and will always be the world's beverage of choice....
World Tea Expo is a Time of Networking
It’s World Tea Expo time; a favorite time of year for tea people around the globe. For three days one of the largest gatherings of tea producers,...
Why is the Matcha in London so… Bad?!
This month one of my co-founders, Alex, is in London, scoping out the Japanese green tea scene. We’re exploring the idea of opening a Chiki Tea café...
Enjoying Tea Outdoors
As Summer approaches and the temperatures warm, many will say it is too hot for tea. For me, it is one of my favorite times of the year to drink...
A Tea Cellar in the Doughnut Vault
One of the joys of the city of Chicago is that there’s always something new to find. I love to take detours on my way to work, late arrivals be...
High Tea at the Soho House Chicago
Chicago winters can be cold, snowy, and windy. Sometimes the most comforting thing to do is curl up and drink tea on the couch all day and watch...
Open-Mindedness
During the 2015 holiday season, I finally gave Lupicia a chance. It's not like Lupicia needs it. A few T Ching posts reviewed its teas quite...
A Trip to Mauna Kea Tea
China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka; these are all countries known for growing tea. But what about the USA? I had heard that there is a...
Mission Impossible: Reviewing Teas from North Korea
I can't believe I got to try these teas. It started last year when a Tea for Me blog post listed which countries produce tea, compiled from a...
The Toronto Tea Festival
Earlier this year, I had the exciting opportunity to pop into the Toronto Tea Festival. I’ve been wanting to go for over a year and had hoped that...
Tearooms in Sierra Madre, CA
Both this post and my Yelp review are long overdue - I had tea at the Four Seasons Tea Room in November, 2013, and at T-Neer, for the very first...
Try Vegas’ “Mandarin Oriental Tea Lounge” for Something Completely Different
Over two years ago during a visit to Las Vegas to attend a wedding, I discovered the Tea Lounge at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, right on the Strip....
Making Tea While Travelling
We enjoy the comfort of our tea setups at home. From simple infusers to teapots to gaiwans and yixing pots, it is nice to be able to make tea...
The Darkness of Tea
As readers of this blog are aware, or soon will be, the world of tea is ancient, diverse, and deep. The same can be said of tea’s homeland, China,...
Teas On Board: Flying High with Low-Quality Tea
Recently, I took four flights in seven days. For tea lovers, those add up to a nightmare situation. What passes for onboard tea in economy class is...
The Japanese Green Tea Cafe Project
At a press conference held in Nagasaki Prefecture this past April, Japanese Green Tea Café Project's stakeholders announced their plan of opening 50...
LA’s “Restaurant Week” Features Tea Desserts
One would think that for a cosmopolitan city like Los Angeles, its bi-annual dineLA Restaurant Week event would have a decades-long history. Not so. The very first Restaurant Week was held in 2008, less than ten years ago.
A Bright Spot for Tea in the High Plains States
The high plains states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming are studies in extremes. Juxtaposed with the snow-patched peaks of Glacier National Park are the sad, colorless towns of northeast Montana.
Transcendence
Living here in Miaoli and serving at the Center every day, the only opportunity I have for any interactions with people who aren’t into tea or spiritual work is in the workplace. I’ve been at my current job for one year now, and although I don’t talk much with anyone, over time they’ve reached the obvious conclusion that I’m a weirdo with mixed-up priorities.
Speaking of tea
On our trip out to Doke Tea Farm in Bihar, we picked some leaves that were transported back to Siliguri. They get left out for 18 hours then frozen for no fewer than 18 hours. They are then rolled and dried using a very innovative process involving a hair dryer and a wooden box lined with metal.
Tea at sea?
During my most recent weekend getaway, while having breakfast at Crown Princess’s Horizon Court on Deck 15, I noticed the self-serve beverage station’s teabag teas. I asked a server if there were other tea services on board. My low expectation was met of course
Finding Chinese tea in the Latin Quarter
I recently found myself traveling Europe for two weeks with a small school group, where and when I discovered that you never know when or where you’ll find good tea.
The fading tea fields of Sri Lanka
During this year’s sourcing trip through Sri Lanka I took a passenger train from Ella to Colombo. The train was packed with locals in transit and tourists lining up along the window sills to snap photos of the picturesque countryside of the island nation.
TBF: ten essentials for the tea drinker
Wildfire. Tornado. Hurricane. Earthquake. Imagine having five minutes to pack up what you value – as well as what you might need – as you prepare to be a refugee. Everyone grabs the photo albums and the poodle. Those items go with you without thought.
The tea boat to China
Today I sold my car. Tomorrow I’m going to pack up my house and put all my belongings in storage. At 9 AM the following day I’m going to get on a plane for Taiwan. I plan to spend several days there finding tea farms and teaware, and then take an actual boat across the Strait of Taiwan to mainland China.
Turkish Delight
There are many perks associated with having a successful tea blog. I think my favorite is the often requested inquiry to review teas or tea related products. When I got the inquiry from Table Rose, I was delighted.
western quality season
Sri Lanka’s Dimbula region always inspires me. This beautiful region is found in the western part of the island. While the Dimbula region is home to some excellent tea producing sub districts such as the Golden Valley, upper Kotmale,
How to turn a nonevent into an event
While on holidays back ‘home’ in Canada, visiting and getting nourished by family and old friends, my mind has entered sufficiently into mind meltdown phase that I can comfortably waft through a couple of recent tea memories.
An insider’s look at the Turkish tea industry and beyond
While the most ubiquitous role for women in the tea industry has been that of plucker, women are gradually moving from the field to tea company C-suites. Here in the United States, a number of prominent tea companies…
Biodynamic tea at New Moon Farm
Lunar planting has long been practiced within the realm of agriculture. Planting by the cycles and rhythms of the moon is simple, tangible, and connecting. The influences can easily be seen in animals, plants, and soil. These effects remind us of the interplay
Travail for tea?
As a dedicated and serious tea fan, I often make a lot of effort for my cuppa. I’ve made midnight runs to the supermarket to buy milk for my tea and I have travelled through India sampling some of the finest teas in the world.
Coca tisane: Peruvian Pick-Me-Up
What's green, warm, and is not warm green tea? For centuries, the people of Peru have chewed the leaves of the Erythoxylin coca plant....
Tea trivia around the globe
Thanks to several Google alerts I set up for myself years ago, I frequently learn of tea trivia that might otherwise pass me by. Two recent alerts particularly intrigued me – and a reference in the first to the topic covered in the second reminded me…
Fear and loathing on Wuyi Mountain
Austin Hodge has already written a fantastic article about Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong that contains all the historical information you could reasonably want to know about the topic. I suggest you all read it before proceeding.
Trekking for tea
Think of trekking in the mountains and sipping tea whilst you get lost in the surrounding mountain peaks and you won’t be wrong for thinking that the following piece is set in the Himalayas. Worlds away from tea plantations and
Back seven: tea and tomlike
It was a crisp clear morning toward the end of September. All were properly attired in layered outerwear and with backpacks packed with food and beverage as well as the requisite all purpose knife, thermos, and traveling tea set.
Global Tea Hut: Sketches of tea
This summer, I was privy to partake in more such beautiful tea moments than at any time previous, and most of these occurred outside.
The travelling teacup
Have tea — will travel. Or could it be — will travel for tea?
Global Tea Hut: Have tea will travel
Those familiar melancholy notes which always accompany the close of a Northern Hemisphere summer are now in full symphony: shorter days, suddenly; soft, warm air with chilly, foreboding undercurrents; bright sunshine above
Tea of the Pacific Northwest
I embarked on my first journey into the Pacific Northwest with my Tealet family Mike and Rie. We drove from our home in Las Vegas with the hopes of learning about the history of tea growing in Oregon and Washington and to connect with tea lovers
The last horse trail: Jungpana
On 27th June 2014, I revisited Jungpana, where I lived for about six months between October of 1992 to March of 1993. Along the journey with me was Xiao Juan, of China. Xiao Juan was very much interested in seeing this tea estate: