Alongside the increasing marketing power of the Far East, patience has been brewing on the tea neglected New York scene. The trendy Manhattan tea shops now offer enough quality and Instagram […]
Matcha is the essence of tea. The power of matcha, the stone mill ground fine Japanese green tea, is in its wholeness. Unless you eat the tea leaves after steeping […]
Ippodo is one of the oldest and most known tea brands in Japan. Their expanding tea houses specialise in Japanese green tea grown around Kyoto. Various grades of matcha, gyokuro, sencha […]
La maison OGATA Paris is the epitome of wabi rusticity where perfect simple lines of beauty merge with the old spirit of the Marais artistic zeal. There is nothing of […]
For over three centuries it has served as a Post Office, grocery store, supplier for the British soldiers and for the expeditions to the Everest. Since 2008 this eponymous department […]
Serious tea lovers but also occasional tea-to-tellers may find handy my concise guide to Tokyo’s most noteworthy tea rooms and shops…
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 […]
This pocketbook size amusing book is handy for travelers eager to entertain themselves during a short journey with tales of traditional English tea customs that emerged over the centuries of the tea’s love affair with Britain.
The Chinese author Liu Tong focuses on chinese teas and history of tea from its early buds in China four to five thousand years ago.
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 […]