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Tea Excursion: CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice Ann Arbor

I'm not sure I ought to be tagging this blog entry as "Tea Excursion" since this place is a three minute car ride away from my house. The big…

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Hawaii Premium Green ~ Arbor Teas

27 Aug 201727 Aug 2017

Although I've personally never been, I have it on good authority that Hawaii is utterly badass. Their tea is no exception. Though quite the untried youth of the tea…

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Sarsaparilla Summer Herbal ~ TranquiliTea

I have a slight cold and needed a warm Herbal tisane this afternoon. Fortunately this last week I accidentally uncovered TranquiliTea's "Sarsaparilla Summer Herbal", lost for at least a…

Kokeicha ~ By The Pound

30 Apr 20176 May 2017

This blog post brought to you by Sleep Deprivation. You have been warned. This marks my first visit to By The Pound in their new location! I didn't…

Right As Rain ~ Light of Day Organics

26 Apr 20176 May 2017

Brief post today... Alfalfa! ...and many other wonderful domestic and biodynamically grown flora. Okay, maybe not quite that brief. The thing is, it seems like one of…

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China Aged Pu-Erh Celestial Tribute ~ Upton Tea Imports

5 Mar 20177 May 2017

This year Russia has been in the news quite a bit for various political activities (amusingly there's even currently a "#FakeRussiaFacts" hashtag trending on Twitter), but of far greater interest…

Excursion: Eat More Tea ~ TeaHaus

26 Feb 20177 May 2017

The brainchild of Ann Arbor TeaHaus's owner, Lisa, Eat More Tea which opened today at 211 East Ann St is an adorable little cakery and gelateria. A side project of…

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Korea Sejak ~ Arbor Teas

12 Feb 20177 May 2017

No, I'm not showing preferential treatment to Arbor Teas. I needed a Korean tea to review today, and I had two from Arbor and none from anyone else. ^^;; Goldfish…

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Chun Mee ~ Arbor Teas

9 Jan 20177 May 2017

Happy 4754 in the Era of Tea! If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this History of Tea post I made a while back. I'm sick at…

Support a Tea Lover! (not me)

25 Nov 201625 Nov 2016

Instead of throwing money at tea vendors this year, I thought I'd throw money at tea lovers. A close non-binary friend of mine (who i have the hugest crush on, but…

Incursion: First 2016 Tea Incursion, Arbor Teas

17 Jan 201625 Sep 2016

I've been utterly swamped with work this last week and haven't had five minutes to string together a blog post, sadly. Hopefully I can make up for my silence by…

Excursion: First 2016 Tea Excursion… Can you guess where?

10 Jan 201625 Sep 2016

Thank you very, very much to those of you who voted in last week's Happy 4753! poll. Your input was extremely helpful and i really appreciate it. :) People said…

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Peachy Keen White ~ TranquiliTea

6 Jan 201625 Sep 2016

Believe it or not, TranquiliTea's Peachy Keen White was the very first White tea I tried. Years back, before Ann Arbor's TeaHaus, Plymouth's TranquiliTea was the only place i knew…

Excursion: TeaVana on the cheap

27 Dec 201525 Sep 2016

This post is unintentionally dedicated to the number 11. :) As you might be aware the day after Christmas in the West has become a Black Friday-like day for shops…

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Assam Tonganagoan Estate ~ Arbor Teas

13 Dec 201525 Sep 2016

I was relieved to discover I do still have one or two non-Green Arbor Teas hidden among my various Tupperware containers. At a recent visit to Arbor Farms Market (the…