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 places to drink or purchase tea in Portland, Oregon.
Sacred Tea – This is a friend’s company, Paul Rosenburg. He has been into tea and art for a very long time, and has turned the attic of an older house into a beautiful tea room with lots of beautiful art. He serves some excellent aged puer teas also.
Portland Chinese Garden – Right in downtown Portland, this place is beautiful and peaceful. There is a great tea shop in there which serves great Chinese teas and snacks. It can get busy on a nice day, but on a rainy portland winter day there is no better place in Portland to enjoy a book and a cup of tea.
Tao of Tea – Their Belmont store is great, and there are 2 sides: One normal tea shop and one room that just sells teas and tea accessories. The Tao is the company that operates the Chinese Garden Tea Shop, and their teas are high quality. They are in my opinion, the center of the tea culture in Portland.
So those are a few places. The NY Times wrote a great article about Portland and Tea this summer, which mentions some other places also. The picture you see is a beautiful image from the National Tea Museum in China (China is where tea was discovered). The museum is located in Hangzhou, just outside of Shanghai.
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