Archive for November, 2008

Mystic Grove Tea Session

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

No visit to the Mystic Grove is complete without a tea session, even if it is a short one. Having Aliang along on this trip made it an absolute necessity! (Actually, having tea was the point of making the 30-minute drive up from Jiji). There’s something indescribeable about being in a bamboo forest - there [...]

‘Hung’ Over?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF OVER-BREWED HUNG CHA (BLACK TEA) THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME VIEWERS! IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YRS OF AGE, HAVE A HEART CONDITION, OR ARE ON MEDICATION OF ANY KIND, PLEASE D O    N O T    R E A D    F U R T H E R ! [...]

Mystic Grove

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

On the way home from our Landrover Camping Trip, we decided to make a short detour up into the bamboo groves for a visit to my favorite spot in all of Taiwan - we usually just refer to it as ‘the mountain’ - a dead-end farmer’s access in a natural bamboo forest that overlooks the valley [...]