03
Mar
Empress Dowager’s Royal Eight Treasures Tea
Each of my annual Chinese New Year pilgrimages to Singapore brings me something new or evokes an old memory. What most struck me this t...
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10
Feb
a chinese new year snack from the Tang dynasty
Deep Fried Sweet Potato Balls filled with Red Bean Paste - a delicious street food best enjoyed with a strong oolong tea like teanamu's...
07
Jan
snow tea?
Chapter 5 of Lu Yu's Classics of Tea talking about water sources and why some sources are better than others.The recent heavy snowfalls...
20
Dec
making yet more friends with tea at tea open house
Enjoying teanamu's second Winter Warmer Tea Open House and forgetting all about the cold outsideWe were in Le Mans last Thursday and Fr...
15
Dec
making friends with tea at tea open house
Talking tea, making friends through friends.After months of planning and anticipation, we hosted our first Tea Open House on 12 Decembe...
07
Dec
tea open house – escape from the Xmas madness!
teanamu announces its first Winter Warmer Tea Open House with free entry and participation.
Come and meet me and other tea enthusias...
28
Nov
chrysanthemum dragonwell green tea
A simple herbal brew consisting of Dragon Well Green tea and Chrysanthemun flowers that will help to balance the excessive Yang in your...
12
Nov
pause for health
I went to a fabulous demo and workshop on Japanese Buddhist Temple Cuisine (shojin ryori) and the Temple tea ceremony led by Master Mar...
30
Oct
Kombucha: The Health Giving Fermented Tea
Carpe Diem Kombucha in a bottle.
In my latest tea adventure in New York, I discovered that bottled cold tea is much more popular there...
23
Oct
kaiseki – tea ceremony cuisine at Umu
Arashiyama is like a bento box consisting of an assortment of appetizers, a seasonal simmered dish, chef’s selection of raw fish, rice,...