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  • Adagio Oolong #40

    Some of you may remember I bought my wedding favour from Adagio, which meant a lot of free credits for free tea, so I got a few things. Oolong 40 is one of them. I find the naming scheme to be slightly annoying. Eve…

  • I can't drink gaoshan oolongs

    One of the biggest changes in the 2+ years I've been blogging is that I no longer drink any Taiwanese gaoshan oolong. Of course, with any statement like this, I am bound to break it -- like today -- but generally speaki…

  • Organic Taiwanese oolong

    Today I am drinking some unaged (unless you consider a few months "aged") Taiwanese oolong, supposedly organic. This is a sample provided by some Taiwanese gentleman from whom I bought some stuff. The tea itself look…

  • Trip to Pinglin

    I have a distant relative who lives in Taipei who helped me a lot to find a place, settle down, etc, and she asked me a few days ago "hey, have you gone to Pinglin yet?" because I told her, when I first got here, that I …

  • Maokong trip

    I went to Maokong today. Maokong is a hill near Taipei. I went there two years ago when I last visited, and I remember you had to switch from subway to a minibus to go up the hill. Between then and now though, they bu…

  • Will travel for tea

    I went to see Aaron Fisher today again at Miaoli. I don't think I'll ever go to Miaoli if I didn't know anybody there. It's a small town halfway down to Taichung, and it doesn't have a lot to offer. But hey, if there'…

  • Cooked oolong

    As far as oolongs go, the tea I had today is what you'd call a cooked oolong. Sometimes reasonably roasted oolongs are called cooked (shu) oolong, but there are different degrees of this stuff, and today's is pretty e…

  • Chayuan

    There's a tea mall in Maliandao called "Chayuan". "Cha", you all know, is tea. The word "yuan" 緣 in this case can mean "predestined affinity", or something like that, anyway. Chayuan, when combined, can mean something…

  • Green Taiwan oolong

    I rarely drink green Taiwan oolong. I get dizzy often enough from drinking this stuff that I tend to avoid them. I don't know why that's the case, or why I am more sensitive to this stuff than young puerh, which should…

  • Benchmark teas

    Quality, in my opinion anyway, is all relative. Nobody is insane if everybody is insane. Likewise, no tea is bad if all tea is bad (or good). Good and bad, I think, are entirely relative terms -- and so in order to as…

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