Happy St Patty's Day everyone and welcome to the TeaDay Partay. Please be sure to stop by throughout the day and share what is in your cup, even if it isn't GREEN.
Yesterday most responders indicated the VISUAL portion of their TOTAL tea experience was 20 or 30%. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.
Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. What would you wish was in the Leprechan's famous pot at the end of the rainbow ... if you found it ... must be tea related but can be different from the poll options?
I am looking forward to sharing a TeaPartay all day with everyone. Bottoms up.
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I would probably go for the matcha since yesterday the Gainesville Tea Buzz™ attended a lecture/demonstration given by Shozo Sato who is—among other things—a tea ceremony master, a Japanese national treasure, and no cheerleader for Chinese tea.
If I have to wish for something that is not tea at the end of the Irish-Nipponese rainbow, I guess it might be one or two of the magnificent lacquered teaware pieces, black, shiny with 40 layers of lacquer, each applied and sanded smooth before the next was applied, then decorated very quietly with the thinnest imaginable filigree of gold dust and mother of pearl. ¡WOWZA!
Despite my broadened cultural horizons, today's photo is cooked puerh. To class it up a bit, I have festooned it with some of the wisteria blossoms that are hanging high up in the pine trees all over Gainesville now. At least the yunomi chawan is Japanese.
If I have to wish for something that is not tea at the end of the Irish-Nipponese rainbow, I guess it might be one or two of the magnificent lacquered teaware pieces, black, shiny with 40 layers of lacquer, each applied and sanded smooth before the next was applied, then decorated very quietly with the thinnest imaginable filigree of gold dust and mother of pearl. ¡WOWZA!
Despite my broadened cultural horizons, today's photo is cooked puerh. To class it up a bit, I have festooned it with some of the wisteria blossoms that are hanging high up in the pine trees all over Gainesville now. At least the yunomi chawan is Japanese.
Mar 17th, '09, 02:45
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! 
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! (See, my Irish is rusty, I had to look that up. I would have said agaibh)
My tea wish would be the "magical matcha" ... ideally some super-high-grade koicha. I can't afford the most top-of-the-line stuff, but have always wanted to try it. Yum!
As for something tea-related but not actually tea, I would love to have a furo and kama set. This one would do nicely:
(In my yunomi - some of Adagio's Golden Spring.)
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! (See, my Irish is rusty, I had to look that up. I would have said agaibh)My tea wish would be the "magical matcha" ... ideally some super-high-grade koicha. I can't afford the most top-of-the-line stuff, but have always wanted to try it. Yum!
As for something tea-related but not actually tea, I would love to have a furo and kama set. This one would do nicely:
(In my yunomi - some of Adagio's Golden Spring.)
Nope: http://www.teafromtaiwan.com/index.php? ... ucts_id=87sp1key wrote:do you mean ban zhang?tsverrir wrote:GREEN highest mist covered mountain oolong.
Just opened up a bag of Bao Zhong I picked up from the mail an hour ago. Wonderful cup, can't wait to brew another one.
