I’m always surprised by how dark of a color white teas tend to have. While the greens, oolongs, reds and puer for the most part have colors that match their names, white teas look yellow. The color of the steeped…
The new spring harvest teas are arriving at Teance, and so am I. I tried three teas earlier today, a yellow tea, a green tea and a white tea, all of which I have had from previous seasons, but a…
After I fried my leftover bouquet peach gyoza, it was time for another food-tea pairing trial. Just last week I bought a couple of ounces of Jun Shan yellow tea (Jun Shan yinzhen 君山銀針) from the Golden Tea Shop for…
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(*)…
The tea purists will never forgive me, but I’m not a purist. I like to experiment. This tea studying thing started as me trying to learn as much about tea as possible to pair it with food or to cook…
While listening to John Kokko about the benefits of tea, we tasted a white, an oolong and a pu’er. I’m ashamed to admit that I thought the oolong was a green tea. 1. Jasmine Silver Needle: white tea infused with…
I came early so Sam gave me a cup of cooled White Down that has sit on the counter since morning. The taste is still smooth, gently sweet, and a bit floral like the usual white teas. However, the color…
Today I started attending a tea class. At Cal (UC Berkeley), they have this DeCal thing, where the students (mostly undergrads, it seems) create and run a variety of “classes”. Basically, they are clubs. I found out about “TeaCal” after…