My local tea shoppe is putting on a high tea demonstration for a cruise ship line. I said that right. Recently the Chinese teas only shoppe had an author selling a book about monks using tea in meditation. This month a noted TCM practitioner will discuss the use of tea in that tradition. I finally visited a tea shoppe mentioned by somebody on Grant street in SF that isnt Red Blossom or Ten Ren. I heard some things said in a gongfu session that were an outright stretch of creduity. It seems the more we learn about tea the more distortion appears. I dont run a tea shoppe because I would have to be mostly show. I dont know if any of this starts someone on a journey. I dont know how people get to the place where they finally enjoy a cup.
Jim
PS I discovered on the California trip bike shoppes are a miserable place to rent bikes.