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  • More teaware

    More teaware porn This is a chaozhou teapot, uncharacteristically large for something of this type. It's a typical 300-400ml size. I've never seen one that big before. It's supposedly from turn of the cen…

  • Tenmoku chawan

    Haven't posted any teaware porn for a while, so here goes I love this bowl. The only flaw is that the brown colour on the exterior is probably a tad bit too much. These bowls are great for matcha, because th…

  • New acquisition

    I'm still not fully unpacked. I don't know where to put my tea. The basement is obviously not a good place, and the attic has a funny smell -- probably smelling like the insulation. So, I don't have a lot of places to…

  • The Demon Revealing Mirror

    The Demon Revealing Mirror is one of those somewhat mythical and fantastical items in Chinese lore that supposedly will show who (or what) is a demon and who is really a human. You just shine the mirror on the object, a…

  • Hand built or wheel thrown pot?

    Here you go for the experts to peruse over. I am still somewhat mystified by this particular pot, since it seems to have traits that I normally associate with hand built Yixing pots, but there are some things, like the…

  • Changing tastes

    I rarely repeat the same tea two days in a row, and never with the same teaware. I think one of the joys of drinking tea is to thoroughly explore all the varieties that it offers, be it young, old, roasted, green, black…

  • Pumidors

    As I think I've mentioned a few times before, I am writing a column for a tea magazine in China, especially on issues of cross-cultural tea habits. I was thinking about writing on the topic of pumidors (puerh humidors) …

  • Chataku by the dozen

    Well, not quite a dozen... but I've grown quite attached to these things, and have obviously collected some over time They usually come in sets of five, although the one on the bottom right I only have four of. I lik…

  • Using a gaiwan

    Well, here it is -- a silly little video on how to use a gaiwan and a few ideas on what works and what doesn't. It's pretty basic. For most of you, it's probably useless. I just thought that given all the stuff out th…

  • Yixing vs gaiwan

    First of all -- the result of the last little question is in, and trentk, you should email me (marshaln at gmail). Chaozhou, yixing, tokoname indeed -- or some other variation of Japanese clay pot. Now, yesterday was…

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