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“古人说: 要积了三辈子的阴德，才能闻得奇楠香, 要八辈子修来的福气，才可品或饮用奇楠香。”

2088Tea is now the Official Kyarazen retail page

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Hello all, another sincere apology for the slowness in writing... it's hard to balance doing so many things at one go now. But good news! KyaraZen is now expanding a little, and soon we will have one or two other writers whom will be sharing knowledge on Chinese cultural arts, which may include brush painting, incense, calligraphy, guqin music, etc! But I thought I would write this post because there had been several concerned enquiries about a certain 2088Tea page that had its soft launch a couple of months ago. Friends were wondering if that was really an official page of mine and yes indeed it is! I've now stopped using ETSY but instead will be using my own e-commerce site at 2088Tea.com where we will be sharing with you a myriad of treasures and experiences! For this month, the KZ team had been very hardworking in making incenses and here are some of the examples of the handmade incenses available for the month, all made from selected and excellent raw materials, and if ... [Read More...]

Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 3 – A Tea Maker that cannot be helped

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This is Part 3 of the Wuyi Cliff Tea Series. Read Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 1 and Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 2 - Complexities here. It all started with a canister of tea (containing 75 grams) in a hand-beatened/hammered tin container. Tea leaves enclosed in calligraphy rice paper, sealed with a sticker with an image of a handsome, scholarly chinese man. It was a tea brought back by my student, the price tag was hefty, and always, such prices always hit my "skepticism" nerve, and also made me worry that my student might have been ripped off. Carefully weighing out six grams, into a thin walled Jingdezhen egg shell porcelain gaiwan, fresh water off the boil, intense and hurried steeps, and as the first gust of the tea's aromatics hit everyone........ It was the first Cliff Tea I had ever had, that had an intense siberian musk note, leading on complex florals and heavy mineral notes. For the "qigong" practitioners and others whom had greater sensitivity present at the tasting, the tea was a ... [Read More...]

Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 1

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This is Part 1 of a series on Wuyi Cliff Tea. Read about Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 2 - Complexities and Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 3 - A Tea Maker that cannot be helped.   There are 36 peaks at the Wuyi Mountains, and 99 valleys are formed by these ... [Read More...]

KZ ventures into oils

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We at the KZ team had been deliberating this for a very very long time. Every time we meet a trader, a merchant, a supplier, a distiller, a farmer, we see a diverse range of wares to which we are incredibly selective and meticulous. Part to why ... [Read More...]

  • I never liked these sorta things for tea, but given that the incense/chinese perfume wheel i had been trying to do up for years is too huge with hundreds of notes, i decided instead to scale it down into an approximate 80 note version for tea specifically. This is not converted from the wine ones that many do and was done up from scratch based on the chinese 五行/five element system and real notes perceived in teas before. #tea #茶 #茶道
  • Giant incense tube (50cm) 😝😝 #incense #线香 #線香 #香道
  • Streams of silvered smoke perfuming the air. #incense #线香 #香道 #kyarazen #線香 #缐香
  • Pushing. #tea #gongfucha #gongfutea #潮州工夫茶 #te
  • There’s always this satisfaction when you finally superceded your ownself.. and broke through the glass ceiling on frankincense incense sticks. After a few months of formulation and tests, method developments and stability checks (due to volatility and natural oxidation), the birth of a frankincense stick like no other, the intense concentrated low temp heated profile of quality omani frankincense, frozen in time and locked into the body of the incense stick. Like a genie in a lamp for a thousand years, ready to burst out and grant your darkest wishes. I’ve not thought of a name, but it could pretty well be the king of lubans. Quite a slow burning stick, i had a 40cm stick go for more than 2.5 hours. Have not thought of a date for incense release as well. 😝 probably end jan or feb first week like 8th or 9th feb. 终于超越了自己，虽然自己做乳香线香一路来都是蛮高质量的，但是这次挑战了自己，几个月的研究调配，制法，稳定测试等等，终于突破瓶颈，把最高档的阿曼乳香低温熏出的味道浓浓的锁在一根线香里，有如千年神灯里的吉尼。一根40cm 慢烧，两个小时半后还没烧完，空间弥漫着帝王级的乳香芬芳，哎，真想把这整批收起来自己私房用😝😝 #incense #frankincense #kyarazen #线香 #線香 #香 #香道
  • 不务正业，香都没什么做，整天烧饼吃 😝😝 teochew fluffy pastry. #teochew #pastry