Last week, I showed up at A-Liang’s shop for my weekly tea lesson. I knew I was in trouble when I saw him putting out sets of testing mugs (10 mugs in all), and he said, “I’m preparing your lesson for today.” Fortunately, he’s not a strict taskmaster, and he was partly kidding anyway. He’s [...]
I had a request for more information about creating a ‘tea studio’ or tea room at home, and since I love to tell stories of my wild youth, I thought I’d start with a bit of background about how I got started on the whole thing.
For me, where I drink tea is just as important as how I prepare it. Having spent numerous afternoons sitting in a bamboo forest with some great oolong and the dogs romping through the groves, drinking tea anywhere else really doesn’t compare. To be sure, there are a lot of great tea rooms in the [...]