Wednesday TeaDay 6/24/09 how many ... TEA vendors?

[iannon]

hmm..i said six but now I think it was actually 7..

Den's, Yuuki-cha, Shizuoka-tea, Funalliance, Zencha, Mr Suzuki, Rich-barbarian,

[Victoria]

More than 10.

Memorable have been:

O-Cha - Sae Midori
Den's - Matcha Myabyi
Floating Leaves Tea - LiShan and DaYuLing
Tea Masters - Baozhong
Hou De - Tie Guan Yin
Camellia Sinensis - FF Darjeeling & Darjeeling Oolong
TeaGschwendner- FF Darjeeling
SpecialTeas- FF Darjeeling
Adagio - Yunnan Noir

Others include: Imperial Teas, Upton, that I can remember at this time.


Starting the day with the nearly gone FF Darjeeling Lingia.
It's been a good one.

Have a nice day everyone!

[depravitea]

I put down three, but it's very soon to be four with an order I'm going to place at Floating Leaves on a Dong Ding. I've gotten tea from Adagio, Menghai Tea Factory (via ebay) and Seattles Best sells loose tea in 8oz bags.

This morning - My new shu pu Again.

[geeber1]

Only two so far, Adagio and TeaSource.

From Adagio I bought refill bags for my Irish Breakfast, Fujian Baroque, Ginger Peach and Masala Chai.

TeaSource was a re-stock of my Nilgiri Glendale stash, a couple of Oolongs, and a blend called Three Brothers (Keemun, peppermint, rosehips)

Fujian Baroque in my cup this morning.

[leiche]

I voted 4, and then remembered a fifth. Nothing fancy, just: Adagio, SpecialTeas, Red Blossom, Tao of Tea, and Den's. Student budget and all that.

It's shaping up to be a Houji-Genmaicha and Qi Zhong sort of day, I think. Intermittent rain. Again. We've had about 4.5 inches of rain so far this month.

[Chip]

It looks like 9, sorta. Although I could make an argument that it was 11.

Adagio>including FF Darjeeling samples en masse from 2 large distributors
O-Cha
Den's
Zencha
SA
Yuuki-Cha
Maeda-en>arriving today
Hankook
An anon vendor who wanted to keep it that way

Began this TD with Kirameki asamushi from O-Cha. Really good stuff, too bad there is no more availalble but I think they have a non shincha version under another name. SweeTea was slurpin' while TEAh, Wulong, Pyrit, and Gandalf all visited the TeaTable today.

Enjoy you tea, enjoy your day

[Riene]

Just one, Adagio. I'm trying to drink up what's in the cabinet.

Had my first Teavanna experience yesterday. I was wandering a mall and ran across one of their stores. It was a tea store, I drink tea, so I stuck my head in. I got immediately accosted by the sales clerk. Really, just leave me alone and let me look! Thanks to the TeaChat, I do have a clue what the cast-iron pots are, and the little cups without handles. *sighs* I finally left without purchasing anything. I just wanted to look at the teaware and books in peace...but no, got pursued and "instructed" from one end of the shop to the other.

[Intuit]

Three, with one on the way: Dens, Specialteas and a local shop. Kirklands green tea and matcha tea bags ordered yesterday. They're handy to carry on travel.

I'm eyeing one or two other vendors, including Adagio.

Sencha in my cup.

[Herb_Master]

I love that photo Sal. It has a great warmth and compactness. But would be even better in winter, when there is snow outside.

[olivierco]

Began this TD with Kirameki asamushi from O-Cha. Really good stuff, too bad there is no more availalble but I think they have a non shincha version under another name.

Ujibashi san no ma

[Chip]

Began this TD with Kirameki asamushi from O-Cha. Really good stuff, too bad there is no more availalble but I think they have a non shincha version under another name.

Ujibashi san no ma

Thank you Olivier-san! I could not remember.

Next up, another O-Cha, shared with DW, Yutaka Midori with cream and sugar and a bit of cinnamon. On a whim, I also threw some Fukamushi Supreme in because I ran out of YM. I need to get YM out of the TeaFridge.

Oh, and I was abducted by aliens last night ...
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[chefmike]

So far for me this year, it has been 3. O-cha, Ippodo, and Specialteas. For sure the standout has been the YM from O-cha.
Iced Genmaicha. It's almost 100 outside today.

[Intuit]

Testing, testing, 1,2 3...

" cream and sugar and a bit of cinnamon".

Trying to see if we're asleep at the wheel, chipster?
Or maybe you have a fur-ball that's bothering you???


"Oh, and I was abducted by aliens last night ..."

Hahahaha. You and many teadrunk hardcore TCers have been 'altered' by love of the leaf and are considered to be 'aliens' to their coffee-slugging friends and family (who can't possibly understand why we need more than 1 tea on hand at a time or why we prefer dimmunitive teaware).

Fear not, ChefMike, the temps behind the moving wave of heat panning across the uppermidwest will moderate to the more normal upper 80s shortly.

At least it's not raining.

A delicate almond oolong in my cup. Tasty!

[Dreamer]

I picked 4 in the poll...then remembered a 5th.

o-cha - sincha (YM and Fuka supreme)
teasource - several things Nilgiri is now a fav
specialteas - several things Vithanakande is now a fav
teasfromtaiwan - both oolong samplers
den's - sampler with teapot and the cherry sencha

This morning I brewed up the 3 part Assam, 1 part Ceylon Lumbini again.
It is soooo awesomely good!!!

This afternoon, matcha in a new matcha bowl that arrived today.

Later, iced tea from this morning!

Happy sipping,
Dreamer

[Geekgirl]

I'm going to guess 4 because I have a lousy memory, and I can remember 3, but I know I must be forgetting something, so 1 more is my buffer. BUT...

I'm heading to SEATTLE!!! so that number will likely increase by 3 because of teashops in Seattle. Whoohoo!

aaaaaannd... I just remembered one more. So make that 4 + 1 buffer, even though I can't now change my poll answer. LOL!