China… Trả Xanh (Yin Hao) ~ Tian Hu Shan (or the trials of Chinese market tea shopping) 18 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 Before you waste your time, today's post is more or less a shaggy dog... ;) You don't need to worry if you can't read this blog's title. I can't either…
93%… Bi Lo Chun ~ Goldfish 17 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 No, I haven't forgotten about my favorite shop in Royal Oak. I have been meaning to review more Goldfish teas for a while now, but distractions kept creeping in. In…
92%… Huang Shan Mao Feng Reserve ~ TeaVana 15 Aug 201530 Jan 2016 Miraculously, I still have a few teas from my 2013 TeaVana Forbidden Kingdom gift set that I haven't touched on. Since today is the midway point of the month of…
91%… Ku Ding and Chinese Medicine ~ Goldfish 30 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 I'm usually pretty open to alternative medicine, but i rarely actually employ them when i should. Ku Ding is one such example. There are a great many traditional Chinese medicinal…
94%… Kuki-cha Twig Tea ~ Light of Day Organics 28 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Of the four Light of Day Organics teas that I brought home during this last trip, I believe I chose Kuki-cha Twig Tea both because it was packaged as limited…
92%… Pan Long Yin Hao ~ Upton 25 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 A gorgeous hand-rolled bud only, Pan Long Yin Hao is a highly regarded tea of Zhejiang. Literally translated, Pan Long Yin Hao means "Curled Dragon Silver Tips". Zhejiang is known…
A2 Local… Yunwu Xiang Special Grade ~ Fujian Tea Import & Export Co., Ltd. 13 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 There are seriously so many kinds of Green tea in China that if I somehow had access to every single one, and drank one a day, it would take something…
91%… Organic China Green ~ Eli 4 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Biscuity! I finally get what this confounding tea adjective refers to: the aroma of freshly baked biscuits... Okay, maybe not. Well, in addition to biscuits, this unknown provenance Green has…
90%… Jungjak ~ Goldfish 1 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 South Korea has a long and confusing tea tradition. Supposedly when the first converted Buddhist monks returned to Korea from their sojourn in China around the end of the Fourth…
A2 Local… Pineapple Orange Guava Iced Tea ~ Republic of Tea 26 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 I bought this iced tea on sale near the end of last summer at Plum Market. Although I posted a review last year (among a great many other iced tea…
91%… Jeju Island Green ~ TeaVana 23 Jun 201530 Jan 2016 Since Jeju Island Green is a TeaVana tea, I thought it only fitting that I brew it in my TeaVana Perfect T-maker. Ordinarily I would brew an astringent fine Green…
94%… Sencha Saemidori Superior ~ Upton 22 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 *SWOON* I am floating somewhere between Asgard and Cloud 9. Sencha Saemidori Superior is quite simply divine. I don't think I've ever experienced tea like this, even when I was…
88%… Nepal Green ~ Eli 9 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 I'd love to support Nepal in any way I can... but with limited funds and no chance of really volunteering to rebuild homes or pack planes with aid packages, I'm…
93%… Gold Screw Jasmine ~ Goldfish 1 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 There is enormous proportion of the Chinese Green tea industry dedicated to scented teas. Of those several hundred varieties, jasmine makes up the greatest percentage by far. Today I'm drinking Goldfish's…
90%… Excursion: Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters & Classic Mao Jian ~ TeaSource 27 May 201514 Dec 2015 A couple weeks ago I was feeling a bit of cabin fever. My adventure gene managed to get the better of me and I decided to head out to Grand…
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