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Maliandao Geography Update
A long time ago, I posted something about Maliandao Geography, mostly to help others going to Beijing to navigate themselves around the street where they sell all things tea. After this recent trip, I noticed that the o… -
Chinatown tea
I was in Philly the past weekend for a conference, and for much of the time I was there I spent in the hotel or in Chinatown, which was right next to it. Normally I'd bring my own tea to things like this, so I don't hav… -
Buying tea from Taobao (2)
So last entry we stopped at actually looking at listings. Let's now turn to those. Over the years pictures on Taobao has really improved. I remember when I was in China in 06, very often the Taobao listings would have… -
Buying tea from Taobao (1)
So it seems like those crafty Chinese finally found a way to make some money by acting as middleman between that emporium of all things Chinese, Taobao, and the Western buyer who wants stuff on there. For those of you w… -
Happy New Year!
Happy new year to everybody! I hope lots of good tea await you all in 2009. After a relatively short 21 hours trip from Hong Kong back here (I expected 24), I am breaking out some of my recent acquisitions on this trip… -
Christmas shopping
Between the myriad family activities and trying to recover from the jetlag, I did manage to pick up some tea -- some aged oolong and some puerh, as well as a bit of bug shit tea. Anyway..... more later, gotta run again… -
Local selection
This is my local selection for tea -- at a decent grocery store around here. Nothing to write home about, obviously, and nothing, I'm afraid, that I might even consider getting. I messed up the setting for my camera,… -
Independent teashops
I find it amazing that independent teashops survive in this country. This is not a friendly place for tea, and for the most part people drink crappy bagged tea. I've always wanted to take some pictures of the tea secti… -
More last minute shopping
I finally went back to the teapot store again today. It's a bit of a pain to go there, because the place doesn't really have regular hours. It's more like an office in an obscure building with semi-functioning elevator… -
Holiday shopping
Much like holiday shoppers everywhere, I was busy today doing some last minute shopping, although these are not gifts for other, but just things I can't buy back in the States. I thought I would go take a look at stor…
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