Zhizheng is an outfit I've discussed before once. I found that tea to be very good, though expensive. In fact, nothing on that site is cheap, but are they all as good? I bought three samples, and I tried another one o…

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…

I think everybody who has been through an economics class has probably learned of the term "ceteris paribus", most likely in the first lecture about supply and demand. The idea that you keep all but one variables consta…

I've said this before, but I'm reminded of this issue again today. I think one of the easy mistakes that newcomers to tea make is an over emphasis on the first few infusions. This is especially true of puerh, particula…

I was digging through my box of old samples and that sort of thing yesterday, and came across a bag of loose leaves that I have been holding on to for a while. It's broken leaves from another cake that I had from China,…