Writer. Traveler. Tea Drinker.

I have always been curious about Tibetan butter tea. I knew that many people said it was hard to drink and an acquired taste, but it’s just a sort of milk tea, right? How bad could that be? While in Yunnan Province I had my chance. Yunnan borders Tibet and there are many Tibetan people living there. [...]

Despite living near Hangzhou for the last two months, I have yet to buy some of the local specialty: Dragon Well Tea. (Pronounced Longjing Cha here in China.) Longjing is not only a famous local tea, but it is one of China’s most famous teas period. In fact, it is the tea served to visiting [...]

The other day Ryan and I went to Hangzhou to explore the tea fields. After all, I am a tea lover, a tea drinker and a tea reviewer, yet I’ve never seen tea actually growing in a field. To be honest, I didn’t even know what a tea plant (bush? tree?) even looked like. Well, [...]

Normally throughout the summer I’m busy snipping off bits of one herb or another to dry and enjoy in cups of tea throughout the year. But this year I decided not to bother. After all, I won’t be here this winter to enjoy it and dried herbs, if properly stored, only last for a year. [...]

If you’ve never seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland animated movie, then that title makes no sense to you. In the movie, Alice stumbles upon the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and they are celebrating “unbirthday,” that is, any day that is NOT your birthday. But yes, today is my Birthday. I turned 33. My big plans [...]

I really hope we get to see something like this in China. I mean, who knew pouring tea could be so athletic?! (Thanks to @mightyleaf for pointing this out on Twitter.)

Some of you might know that I am a tea reviewer over the Tea Review Blog. It doesn’t pay, but it really fun and a get a ton of free tea samples in the mail to review. (At last count I had 125 different kinds of tea in my house!) One of the fun things [...]