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  • Tea Expo Shanghai 2007

    I went to the Tea Expo today. First of all... the thing is a little surprising given the amount of puerh tea vendors in there. Granted, puerh is all the rage these days and is the new darling of the tea industry in Chi…

  • The Grandpa method of making tea

    I drank tea the grandpa way today. That's because my grandfather drinks his tea this way. Essentially, it is the simplest way a Chinese person makes tea -- throw leaves in mug, add water, drink. Add tea leaves when th…

  • Two Shuixians

    I tried the new shuixian I bought recently against an older one that I had. One of them is 4x the price of the other. Any guesses? I used 3.5g for each side to ensure consistency in the amount of leaves. The tea…

  • New Shuixian

    I tried my new shuixian today. The first two or three infusions were great.... and then the dropoff was rather sudden. I don't know what happened. I don't know if it's the way I brewed them, the amount of leaves used…

  • Back to Beijing

    Today was a lovely day, with warm temperature and great weather, and the sky was actually blue and not some shade of yellow. I am rather jet-lagged... feeling sleepy around 12pm. What better way to try to keep myself a…

  • Rougui

    I stayed at home today, and had a rougui given to me free by one of the tea vendors on Maliandao. The leaves are a little green, and indeed, this is a relatively light roasted rougui. The tea is.... quite nice.…

  • Diagnosing strange teas

    When drinking a large variety of teas, one ends up encountering a lot of stuff that is surprising, and most of them are not pleasantly surprising. Since teas are unlabeled, with unknown source and unknown provenance, wh…

  • Back to the rougui

    I went back today to the first Wuyi tea I bought in Beijing, the rougui. The leaves are quite broken, mostly as a product of roasting (where you have to move the leaves). They're dark, and when sniffed, they exude that…

  • Dahongpao

    I drank some dahongpao today. It's the supposed tea that is used for the national assembly when they entertain foreign guests. It's really not bad, although tasting it again, I feel like it changed a little and is not …

  • I didn't get around to drinking tea today until about 8:30pm. Amazingly enough, no caffeine headaches, yet. I was quite surprised. I think last week's parade of 06 Yiwu teas really made its mark by doing some serious …

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