China… Excursion: Thai Food, Korean Yip-Cha & Dragonwell White ~ Goldfish 13 May 201520 Dec 2015 Two weeks back (I've been a little too depressed to write much at the moment) I finally made it out to Goldfish for the first time this year... and I had…
93%… Yellow Mountain Mao Feng (or, What’s in a Tea Name…) ~ Goldfish 12 May 201520 Dec 2015 Calling a tea a 'Yellow Mountain Mao Feng' is a fairly noncommittal method of naming. There are approximately 10,000 individual Chinese Green teas (out of almost 20,000 total kinds of tea).…
A2 Local… Loose Pu’er 2004 24 Feb 201520 Dec 2015 Among the many reasons why Goldfish is my favorite tea house in Michigan, there's the fact that (to my knowledge) they're unique in the state in actually selling their pu-erh…
China… Scarlet Robe 21 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 Last week we experienced subzero temperatures and this week we're being inundated with snow, ice and slush to the point where I put my car in the ditch twice yesterday.…
A2 Local… Great Green Monkey 4 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 There's ice on the ground and sleet in the sky! Winter is finally upon us (though not quite as dreadfully frigid, break-into-song, snowman-building, Snow Queen given as I might wish).…
Anhui (安徽)… Sparrow’s Tongue ~ Goldfish 20 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 Now that our weather feels a lot more like Autumn (though it's still August) I thought it'd be the most auspicious time to switch gears and return to loose leaf…
Black… Excursion: Goldfish – on the cheap 6 Jul 201420 Dec 2015 The oxymoron in the title of this post notwithstanding, I did have a terrific early morning adventure to Royal Oak's Goldfish Tea on Saturday. I'd been to Goldfish once before…
Black… Yunnan Pure Gold ~ Goldfish 28 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 In addition to being one the best smelling tea I've ever brewed, unbrewed Goldfish Tea's Yunnan Pure Gold astounds in the shape of a beautiful rust colored perfectly twisted tea…
China… Osmanthus Oolong ~ Goldfish 18 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 Goldfish Tea's Osmanthus Oolong is one of the most interesting Oolong's I've tried, though I'm not sure I would necessarily rank it among one of the best. The frank Ti…