Tea
High Mountain Taiwan Oolong
In May of this year, Nono and I had the opportunity to visit a tea harvest at a high mountain tea farm in central Taiwan. It was an awesome experience, and it was great for us to see how it all happens – from the picking to roasting to tasting. We were not a part [...]
Tea Experiment – Different Cups
I like to read the Leaf, there are some excellent articles on tea there. Compared with a lot of the information on the internet, they are much more in depth. Tea is simple in that you either like it or you don’t, so experimenting is a great way to expand your understanding of tea. I [...]
Old Japanese Tea House in Jiufen (North Taiwan Coast)
Two weeks ago 13 of us all went to Jiufen on a really beautiful fall weekend in Taiwan. Jiufen is an old gold mining town an hour away from Taipei. It’s turned into a tourist trap, people from Taipei go there for the day and walk around and eat from all the different street food [...]
Differentiation
I enjoy surfing different tea websites and looking at how they are marketing tea, there are so many new tea companies coming up these days. Almost every tea website says “We are passionate about tea” and “We
have great relationships with our suppliers” and “Our tea is of
extremely high quality”
When I was doing marketing at Screaming [...]
How to describe Tea
I realized that I don’t write much about tea (茶). It’s out of proportion with how much I read about it, and how often I enjoy tea. While I think it’s hard to talk about, the best way I could summarize my understanding of tea is:
Tea is one of the few habits I have that [...]
Pu-erh Tea I Bought in Hong Kong
I got this tea last week while in Hong Kong. I bought it from a company that seemed very reputable, called Sun Sing Tea. They had 2 really nice locations in Hong Kong and a wholesaler somewhere in town. Right now their website has basically no information but I was told a new one is [...]
Tea. Tea. Tea.
I’ve been meaning to get a post up about tea for a while now. Tea is something that I am very passionate about, I think it is a great habit to drink tea regularly.
I’ve got a lot of tea links posted on my delicious page, and would like to mention a couple of my favorite [...]
Portland Getting Props
There have been 3 articles on Portland written by the NY Times
this year that I am aware of. The latest one is from last month
highlighting the bicycle culture here. A previous one, my favorite, on
the topic of the wealth of tea businesses in this city.
One of the major points of the most recent biking [...]
