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brewing kukicha
I was having a discussion about brewing tea today. One person mentioned a Chinese tea which was brewed by pouring boiling water over the leaves, throwing out that water after 30 seconds, then pouring...
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Tea Alone or with Munchies
For some reason this morning I ended up with a healthy, nutritious and satisfying breakfast of a small amount of jalapeno potato chips. Of course, I did not forsake my pot of Irish Breakfast (I've...
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Reishi aka Ling Zhi Tea, where can I buy it in the UK!
Recently I read about this tea in a UK Sunday paper, the times I think. From what I remember reading the tea apparently encourages longer life and reduces weight, historically it was consumed...
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what tea did you buy today?
I just placed an order with The Real Tea Company who are in Wales. Anyone ever use them? I ordered - some of their chai some genmaicha after reading about it in The Telegraph this past week-end...
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yerba mate - looking for a few facts
Yerba máte seems to be becoming popular, but I am having trouble untangling just what it is. From what I have read, it is a South American herbal tea drunk communally - i.e., hot water is added to...
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Yixing pot, or not?
I have a small, red clay pot which looks like it might be a Yixing. There is no manufacturer mark on the bottom (or anywhere else that I recognize), but there are what appear to be Chinese ideograms...
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Tea haiku
Oolong steam rises, Entwines midnight cricket song - Rejoicing spirits. Martha (who never claimed to be a ~good~ poet)
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Fukamushi-Cha
I recently went to a couple of Asian markets in the area to check out some teas. Most of what I got wasn't to spectacular. I bought some Foo Joy Dragon Well that tastes like Dragon Well, but has a...
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Re-Joining Group
Hi All, I have been away from the group for some time. But I have been back about a week and the postings are very interesting (I actually read the last 500!). Some of the members from before appear...
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Darjeeling tea plantations go to pot
Published in today's [UK] Daily Telegraph: Darjeeling tea plantations go to pot By Rahul Bedi in Darjeeling (Filed: 18/10/2003) In the shadows of the Himalayas the tea plantations of Darjeeling, where...
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On the subject of tea balls.
On a recent trip out west, I took a tin of tea, a measuring spoon, the egg timer I mentioned in another post, and a couple of tea balls along. I wanted to take my electric kettle, too, but my husband...
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New teashop in Toronto
Hey guys, I found this new tea shop in Toronto called Yaffa's Cafe & Teahouse. It's not a tearoom or anything funky like that, but it does have a fairly decent selection of teas. Their sign says...
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Fook Ming Tong Tea Shop
Hi group! Has anyone ever heard of this place? They are in Hongkong and have a few _very_ nice (sounding) specialities in their program. Thanks, Ralf
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build your own custom tea blends
hey everyone, i found this site, where yer able to create your own custom blends. they only have flavored black teas, but i wrote to them and they said that they are planning to add other teas due to...
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Charcoal roasted oolong, mmn?
I watched Olivier Assayas' film "HHH - A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien" yesterday. The film crew visit a cafe in a town where HHH had previously shot "A City of Sadness", somewhere in the south of...
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