Monday TeaDay 2/09/09 Your personal TeaRoom?

[Chip]

Good TeaDay fellow tea aficionados! Please stop by throughout the day and share what is in your cup.

Yesterday at least 75% of responders indicated they could at least probably use more "room" for tea and related wares! You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. "TeaRooms." Where do you consider your primary, personal "TeaRoom" to be? There can be different criteria for your response such as most frequently enjoy tea in this special place, or perhaps it is a place specially set aside for your tea moments, etc. Please share.

I am looking forward to sharing our TeaRooms with each other. Bottoms up everyone.

[Salsero]

Many trips from computer to kitchen, kitchen to computer.
Fortunately, they are right next to each other.

This seems to be what Xuancheng – our TeaChat delegate to Wenzhou, China – calls a Nongxiang Dan Cong. The fruits depicted on the cup are Pipa, better known in English as Loquat.

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[Space Samurai]

This is where I have tea, in my little office nook.

[Victoria]

Computer room for me - at least when I am at home.
Work doesn't count because ... well it's work.

[Trey Winston]

This is where I have tea, in my little office nook.

I wish I had a sweet setup like this, with a tray and everything.
Computer room/home office for me too.

Haven't decided what to drink today, which usually means that I'll default to White Symphony.

[brandon]

Huh, you left out what seemed to me to be an obvious choice.
I have a large dining room with a large table and lots of storage. This is where tea happens.

[bi lew chun]

No electric kettle keeps me chained to the kitchen, for the most part, but I enjoy tea all over the house. With an electric kettle, I'd probably set up shop in my office and never leave.

[Jack_teachat]

Currently my living room, hopefully when I start my PhD and I get my own office I will sort myself out with a little space like Trey's!

Hibiki-an sencha superior to start the day, some Mao Feng later when I get back.

Jack

[Drax]

Although I do all my tea prep in the kitchen, I enjoy it in the dining room (adjacent to the kitchen), where I also have my laptop set up. Ahhhhh.

Continuing on my non-pu-erh kick, I am savoring the flavoring of some yunnan gold from adagio.

[boywoodhe]

I have my own tea room at the other house that is having repairs done. So, I'am at the other house(shack) lol, and I have my tea at the computer area.

Drinking a nice cup of golden spring.

[brlarson]

I keep my default teas (1 TGY, 1 Rock Tea, 1 Taiwanese oolong, 1 Japanese green) in the kitchen with a porcelain pot and a kyusu. Everything else, the rest of the teaware and teas, are in my home office. I always prepare tea in the kitchen and usually drink it in the office.

Mem Imports Jade Oolong this morning.

[cherylopal]

My kitchen! I love my kitchen and its where most of my life at home happens. It's big and comfortable- I have my computer there set up on my island. I love to cook and do my work there and its so convenient for the making and enjoying of tea.

Currently enjoying snow buds white tea from rishi in classroom- savoring the quiet moments before the kiddos arrive.

[Janine]

Tea accompanies writing, so it's either at my desk (most frequently) or at times the living room couch if I take my laptop over there.

No tea yet. Probably will have some puerh which I've been brewing rather unconventionally in large batches in a glass teapot. I bought two different cakes I like a lot: one's a Chi Tse 2002, very rich and aged well by a master. The other is a "yellow label" arborial (made from now-wild plants from a plantation untended since the Cultural Revolution) 2004. Decisions, decisions...

On the other hand I have an alishan waiting for me from Tillerman Tea which I haven't opened yet.

[Chip]

Huh, you left out what seemed to me to be an obvious choice.
I have a large dining room with a large table and lots of storage. This is where tea happens.

Living room/dining room

[gingkoseto]

Many trips from computer to kitchen, kitchen to computer.
Fortunately, they are right next to each other.

Me the same And I remember you mentioned before that you use a larger tea cup so to skip the fair pitcher step. And me the same

Nice photo! But I guess it's the qing xiang kind.