I would like to be the kind of person who gets up early on workdays and spends a respectable amount of time with a healthy breakfast and a cup of tea, carefully considering and preparing for the onslaught of the day. The reality of my mornings is nothing like this – I usually throw things [...]
The video below is a really nice example of a formal Chinese tea ceremony. It shows the presentation by the Fujian Normal University to the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Youth Camp delegation in 2006, complete with live musicians and several servers. The film quality is not perfect and there’s not much of interest [...]
Yesterday evening we had some spare time between appointments so we went to Floating Leaves Tea in Ballard – 2213 NW Market St, Suite 100. I had been there once before but had not ever sat down to tea in the shop. After very little deliberation, we decided on the Baojhong Second Place oolong, served [...]
A co-worker recently brought some Douglas Fir Tip Tea from Juniper Ridge, and I had forgotten that I stashed a bag in my desk drawer until I was rummaging around trying to find a good tea to take care of the latest chest cold that’s going around. It isn’t advertised as a remedy, [...]
New year, new job, new tea, and new tea toys!
The holidays brought both tea leaves and tea ware to my doorstep. (Isn’t it great how easy we are to shop for?) First in line for show-and-tell is my Teaposy set, given to me by my sister. It comes with a glass pot [...]
This adorable Japanese commercial is for a green tea made by the Thai company Unif. The ads were done by BBDO Bangkok. More of them, with English subtitles can be viewed here. The award-winning commercial featured on that page, called “Mother’s Day,” is brilliant. These cute-as-a-bug’s-eye caterpillars are called “worms” in the English translation of [...]
