Hakone hot spring resort Ten summers ago, after getting off at a wrong train stop in a hot spring bath resort area in Hakone, on…
A private message A few nights ago, the customer who had left the most number of reviews on our site, N.N., sent me a message…
While we have a stubborn belief in the purism of tea, we do things to some of our teas sometimes. Like making milk tea for…
Although it is perfectly okay to steep your maocha in a large pot in the conventional way, the tea can reveal a very different dimension…
Tea compressed into a discus form is basically still a tea like any other loose leaves. The process of compressing does impose a transformation in…
What makes the taste of a tea? The taste of a tea is the combination of its many tones, accents and tints. Like a good…
To steep tea, there is the usual brewing with hot water and there is the recently popular cold infusion. There actually is one less practiced…
Tea cannot manifest its full self when improperly infused. The wrong leaf to water ratio, poor infusion ware, inappropriate water temperature, bad timing, as much…
Soon it will be the Year of the Bull in the Lunisolar Calendar. Believe it or not, this very old dating system basing on both…
Why do they steep Longjing in the glass? Every single client I have ever travelled with to Hangzhou has asked: why do they all steep…
