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  • 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…

  • A moving tea

    I went to the candy store, and other stores nearby today. The first stop was uninspiring -- a few nice teapots, but nothing in the way of tea. The second was a store right next to my usual candy store. I've been in …

  • A mixed success

    Well, I went back to that store today. The owner was nice enough, and I think it could've been a semi-honest mistake. What I think actually happened is this: this store has basically three labels for their teas. Not …

  • Screwed

    I went to the store that sold me the claimed 35 years dongding to get some more of the tea. I got the bags, paid, left. I even got a sample of something she claimed to be 60 years old, ok. I came home, made the 60 yea…

  • Treasure troves

    I had some extra time today, so I went back to the same tea shop that I visited last weekend today. Specifically, that was the one with the big tea canisters (picture in the bottom of the post) and where I picked up a f…

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