Episcopalian teapot meets Chengdu’s Teahouses

A new week, a new Monday, some tidbits from Weblandia. I saw an article about Japanese research claiming green tea reduces nightmares, but it was on a spammy scraped page. And it’s SO DUMB I can’t bear to link it. What other headlines may noodling research yield? “Green tea reduces aetheric trauma, new research shows” [...]

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Video History of Pu-Erh Tea (How to Do Pu-Erh, pt 4)

To wrap up our Pu-Erh Tea videos, let’s head over to Yunnan, China and take a look at the unique history of Pu-Erh. This video from Chinese television has a holy Pu-erh tea tree that over 1000 years old… …picturesque tea plantations… …and a special look into the techniques of making pu-erh tea. Watch to [...]

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How Pu-Erh Tea Is Made (How to Do Pu-Erh, pt 3)

When you’ve broken up your pu-erh cake, you may wonder how they got it into cake form in the first place. That requires we buy a plane ticket and head over to Yunnan Province in the mountains of China. Or that we can just watch some videos, you decide. (If you choose the plane, you [...]

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Pu-erh Tea, Gongfu Style (How to Do Pu-Erh, pt 2)

Once you’ve broken up your beeng cake, you can brew up a cup any old way you choose. Infuser in a mug, teaball in a pot. Yet those are for any old tea. For a tea as special as this pu-erh, you’ll want to go the next step up… …to specialist instruments. Like the gaiwan. [...]

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How to Do Pu-Erh, part 1

I’m on a pu-erh kick lately… dunno why. Maybe it is because pu-erh is mellow and electrifying. Yet I remember, too, back when I got my first pu-erh beeng cake and how weird it was. I mean, it’s a cake. A cake of tea, not sponge or sweets. Or yellow… yellowcake being a main component [...]

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From Tibet to Morocco, Tea-Style

Two must-see things in I saw National Geographic just yesterday, both tea-y: *** First, a loong article on the looooooooonger ancient Tea Horse Road leading through Yunnan and Tibet. When tea first became a huge commodity, it traveled over these roads by horseback (or by humanback in places where even horses couldn’t make it). Now [...]

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Print Yourself a new Teapot

Break your teapot, print a new one. That’s the world of the bizarre and fascinating 3-D Printer. Basically a device used in product prototyping and architectural design studios, a 3-D printer can print objects. Not just plans, whole objects. Bizarre! And recently they figured out how to printing with ceramics. Physorg reports: Following a three [...]

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The Teapot Sect Scandal

Malaysia’s a pretty laid-back country. Multicultural, friendly people. Fine tea, from the Boh plantation, and a delicious, sugary-milky concoction known as teh tarik. And a religious sect who once built a gigantic teapot pouring out holy water. (Ah, that’s a commercial for Boh. For the teapot sect, read on.) So the Sky Kingdom, a syncretic [...]

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