Friday, Jun 17. 7 PM. Twice a year, Camellia sinensis is harvested to make oolong, but the spring yield is usually more floral than the fall. Winnie started the class with a taste test: between two oolongs, can we tell…
All of my tea afternoons this spring have been spent at Teance. It’s dear to me. It’s the place where I took my first formal tea class, where the employees and I talk about schools and life and other things.…
Kristen knows what she wants at Imperial Tea Court: the Taiwanese niu ro mien(*), a noodle soup with thick hand-cut noodle, big chunks of beef, a ladle or two of mahogany sauce, and a strong taste of star anise. Now…
Until today I’ve tried 5 different kinds of Chinese green tea: Longjing (Dragon Well), Anji Bai, Lu Shan, Mao Jian and Bi Luo Chun. That doesn’t sound like a whole lot, and I’m waiting for Dafang and Nanjing to arrive…
Another creation of Yuri Vaughn: the Inside-Out Mochi – the chewy green mochi is inside, the lama bean paste is outside, a scrumptious coat of ground sesame and walnut to tie everything together, and a wedge of soft agar agar…
Ten minutes before seven on a Friday night, and Teance was already half full. The guys were handing out Lavender Mint as a preface, which I suppose could make a great palate cleanser. I was focused on snatching a seat…
Tiana, Kristen and I went on a tea date today, the perfect thing to do on a post-finals Sunday afternoon. And we don’t tea-date half-heartedly, we did a flight of 5 teas (people normally do flights of 3), with mochi(*)…
Last night I made a list of teas that I haven’t tried at Teance. Four of them are green teas, and three are from China. So today I asked Cheryl, but the Dafang of this season hasn’t arrived, same with…
I stepped into this whole tea thing because I wanted to do tea pairing, so it started out strictly as a flavor endeavor. Then the world of real tea is so vast I can’t get enough of it, so I…
About a month ago, I learned that Longjing (Dragon Well) is the sweetest tea with the highest theanine content among green teas. My experience with green teas, minus the Korean sejak(*), has been less favorable than with the light oolongs,…