Something Smuggled In

I've made a huge mistake.
I kind of like how this blog is just turning into a catalog of my recent tea-making mistakes.  This is one I make periodically with rolled oolong (usually roasted ones since, unlike green gaoshan teas you need more than just a bare covering of the...

A daily tea-making regimen is not necessarily unaccompanied by occasional moments of comedy.  A frequent occurrence for me--usually in the first couple of infusions of a tea like yan cha (that needs pretty much instantaneous steeps at the beginning...

 I recently started drinking two charcoal-roasted dong ding oolongs I've been storing since mid 2010, both purchased from Shiuwen at Floating Leaves Tea.  Though I tried both teas a few times during the last three years, the most recent experience...

Today it's my pleasure to write about some samples I received from the generous hands of blog friends and operators of Tea Urchin, Eugene and Belle.  They're currently based in Shanghai and from the impressive breadth of their blog content they...