I can’t handle too many accounts and constantly forget essential login information :-p

Too some degree it can be very true. But everything is relative. A farmer’s tea in a bad year can be better than another farmer’s tea from a good year. A farmer’s lower grade tea can be better than another […]

Ok, call me lazy. But a 90min exercise is not simple :-p

That being said, I think these are all very good advice.

But I could totally visualize many guys would choose kickstarter over kati :-p

It looks cool and definitely more handy than regular metal tea strainer. But am I right it’s $20 each? That’s not a price that I’m willing to pay.

The whole kati system (basically a beautiful mug and a metal strainer, if you wonder what it is) costs only $15, and I got mine with some super good deal discount (I think I bought a tea and got the…[Read more]

i just did it 😉

any thoughts on the placebo article? somehow it made me think of some tea (price) effects all the way :-p

As for comparison of the two companies, I haven’t tried either seller’s tea but like Adagio a lot better, partially influenced by tea communities and partially due to the properties and styles of the two […]

where is the writing??? Alex it drove me crazy that nowadays i don’t know where you write! i added your new blog site but still feel i missed a lot of stuff!

*I feel tea gurus and tea masters are often very vague concepts. Probably one of the few places where it’s not vague is in Japanese tea ceremony, because the “tea masters” in Japanese tea ceremony must hold some […]

*But your post also makes me think of this. I do believe there is gender prejudices among tea drinkers. Most of them may not even aware of it – a lot of people, more than what we realize, don’t aware their own […]

* I think about half of the Chinese tea vendors I know are females, but for some of them, it’s because the man in the family is responsible for making more money, and the woman would take some more casual, […]

*I love bubble tea made of real fruit (too bad a lot of them are made of nasty flavorings), but usually I don’t take the little balls with it.

*I hope I can join the next hangout! I’ll finish my midterm exams next week and hopefully can have some time breathing 🙂

*Yeah! It looks almost like an American style coffee maker!I feel this kind of things would mainly fool Chinese, who don’t use a coffee maker and see it as novel and fancy. I bet this is by far not as good as […]

* The wedding show I attended was actually pretty good. I didn’t pay for it. But I thought even if I paid for it, the numerous wedding cake and chocolate fountain tastings were sort of worth it. So I guess getting […]

* @bram I think if it’s basically commercial promotion event, then it should be free, and should have free gifts for people to be advertised on. But that’s just what I think. People are paying for tickets of these […]

*Now you’ve got me started… :-pI would like to see more tea shows and tea festivals. But I absolutely HATE it when they charge admission, especially when the event is basically about promotion and advertising […]