Posted on July 4, 2010
As I tasted a newly arrived sample of Green tea, I was curious about how the tea got its name, AnJi White Green.
Most White teas don’t look white. Here before me was a Green tea that looked white (more on this below).
In the specialty tea industry, defining White tea is a work in progress. Consumers [...]
Posted on June 17, 2010
Last month (May) I gave a tea talk at UCLA along with a tasting that was part of the school’s annual “Asia in LA 2010″ day-long program.
Most of the material I presented has been covered in various earlier posts, but I provide here the teas that I brought for the tasting and my reasoning for [...]
Posted on May 1, 2010
I don’t know about the reading habits of other people but when I read magazine or newspaper articles online, one topic leads to another and yet another, and the ease of clicking on links means I often end up quite a ways away from my original search. And so it is with tea-related browsing and [...]
Posted on April 24, 2010
At the end of the previous post (Part 2), I concluded that for almost $50/lb, one could have a really top grade Jasmine leaf tea instead of the $48.95/lb Jasmine Pearls tea that turned out to be a poor choice, value-wise and flavor-wise. If it is Jasmine Pearls you’re after, seek out a better quality [...]
Posted on March 20, 2010
This is a follow-up to an earlier post about teas to accompany a dim sum meal. Here is a tea menu from a dim sum restaurant in (of course) San Francisco. I say this because growing up in the Bay Area, I remember the earliest place to go for authentic dim sum was Yank Sing, [...]