Located across from National Taiwan University is Wistaria Tea House, a spot where locals and tea-drinkers gather to pass away a free tranquil hours. If it looks out of place sandwiched between modern apartment buildings and shops, it’s because it was built in 1921. It played a prominent role to Taiwanese officials during the Japanese [...]
Part of my Asia trip was to accompany Will on his quest to fill every open space in our house with tea and tea accessories. Taiwan is supposed the place to get your tea on, so we ended up going on a lot of tea-related outings.
One spot we went to was called 回留素食茶藝館 (hui liu su [...]
Let’s say you’re in Hong Kong and you’re a vegetarian or traveling with one and you or he wants dim sum. No problem! There’s a fully vegetarian restaurant at Admiralty, on a hill near the tea pot museum. It’s mostly a “drink expensive tea and eat snacks” place but it may be worth a [...]
On Saturday, I helped out at my friend Imen’s tea shop in Rolling Hills. Her shop got written up on the LA Times on Wednesday, so we guessed there would be a lot more people in the shop. We were right. Most of the day went by fine with people stopping by, curious after reading [...]
The BF broke his tea-cup a couple of months ago and asked if I wanted the pieces. It broke in a perfect line down the middle, which is kind of neat, so I kept it.
I’ve been meaning to put each half in a separate square frame, but I couldn’t find small square frames that I [...]
