It wasn’t easy convincing Mr Teaism to write about tea and tea culture online. At least I think I tried, and many other people too had been encouraging him to, and so he finally agreed! Mr Teaism is a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Tea, especially that of Pu-Er Tea and Yixing Purple Clay Teapots. No… [Read More…]
Archives for December 2013
Cultivated Agarwood
Agarwood plantations are common all throughout South East asia today. Some plantations are beginning to reap the fruits of what they had planted a decade ago, and have pushed out a myriad of intriguing agarwood products such as agarwood leaf tea, agarwood cookies, agarwood flavoured instant noodles, wood chips, oils, soaps etc. The strange… [Read More…]
When Pu Erh tea is Poo-Erh
Apologies again for the slow posting this week, been extremely busy with offline activities and several local incense events etc Perhaps just for a breather, I thought I could have a little detour by writing something on pu-erh tea. The internet is abuzz and obsessed with pu-erh tea. If you go onto some popular forums… [Read More…]