Best tea rooms & shops in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is known for its eclectic mix of an East-meets-West tea scene. Rather then being a destination for buying tea, the city has been mostly associated with its British-influenced […]
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The East India Company: Golden Tips of Ceylon White Tea No 58
Golden tips tea is a rare tea (only 8kg picked every year!) grown at altitude of 4000 metres near Adams peak in Sri Lanka. They get their name from the reddish variety of the tea plant and also because golden scissors are used to pick the buds in the morning before they unfurl in the heat of the sun.
The East India Company: Silver Cloud No 96 white tea from Oodoowera Estate in Ceylon
Silver Cloud no 96 is a white tea from Oodoowera Estate in Ceylon where “the heavens touch the Earth“. Kept tender by the gentle mists which shroud the mountain, Silver Cloud […]
Higashiya Ginza: tea sanctuary in the midst of bustling shoppers' paradise
Higashiya Ginza is one of the top tea houses in Tokyo serving Japanese afternoon tea consisting of the in-house made sweets, Japanese pickles and small rice-based savoury snacks. For any visor sitting […]
Green tea mystery debunked
Of all teas, green tea is perhaps the most misunderstood.
Tea That Is NOT Tea: infused botanicals for health, vitality and taste
The ongoing global pandemic opened our eyes to the importance of boosting our immunity. Yet the remedies include a wealth of sketchy promises that fog our well-intentioned minds. With a […]
Fortune: tarot & symbolism of reading from tea leaves
There is a deep connection between tarot cards and tea leaves, fortune. Tarot became a popular entertainment, sparking up friends outings and house parties well before the Covid cut off […]
Western Tea Musing: My own hands hold the passage of time
This is a tea musing of a tea lady that travels East to West in circles transcending the physical boundaries drawn on the map of the Earth. I dropped a […]
Millennial tea trends
Like fashion, food and wine, tea is also submissive to by consumers driven trends. Although certain traditional popular tea styles such as the milky black Hong Kong tea, Chinese and […]
Tisanes around the world
I assembled a shortlist of my favorite herbal infusions by continent and in some by country of popularity. Most disseminated around as trade shipped these local traditions over the vast […]