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  • Drinking tea with no leaves

    I've voiced this before, but it happened again over the past weekend, and it really mystifies me. Why do teahouses in the United States serve tea without giving you the leaves? What I mean is, when you go to one of the…

  • Bad tea, good tea

    I just came back from a short trip to Salem, MA, where a good friend got married. When you mention Salem, most people think witches, but in reality, witches was just a small part of the city, and the place's claim to fa…

  • Tea in Woodstock, VT

    Driving through Vermont today, stopping in a nice little town called Woodstock, and finding a shop called Tea and Coffee House there. It's nothing that's going to impress a real tea addict, but it's really nice to find …

  • Whistling Kettle

    I went to a tea store yesterday called Whistling Kettle, located in the little town of Ballston Spa. This is your typical small town tea store, I think, doing mostly tourist business as well as supplying the rich local …

  • Dobra tearoom

    I'm in Madison, Wisconsin, and while I walked around town today, I came across a tea room. It's called Dobra Tea. I never let a tea room go by without at least taking a peek, and since they looked pretty ok from the ou…

  • Fighting bad tea

    I've been traveling a lot recently, which means not much time and chance to sit at home to make tea properly. When on the road, I am usually quite lazy and don't always bring my own tea, and at any rate, circumstances o…

  • Finding tea in Korea

    I don't know what Toki does, but I remember when I first came here in Korea quite a few years ago, the going was tough. Finding tea in Korea is not as easy as it seems, given all the teaware that they make. You do star…

  • Ugh

    My last entry on this blog was December 5th. That's almost two weeks ago, which is quite scandalous. I have been rather occupied with all sorts of things, not least pretending to try to write my dissertation and to loo…

  • I hate infuser baskets...

    especially the red ones that have a plastic lining. What I've found over the years is that if you go out to a tea shop to drink some tea, in this country anyway, more likely than not they use an infuser basket to brew t…

  • Caffeine overdose

    I've had caffeine overdose exactly once in my life. I remember it was early in my college years, and I was staying up writing some paper. I had some rather nasty jasmine pearls, and.... well, long story short, I woke u…

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