Tag: Formosa
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“Taiwan’s Wild Side” – Big Brass Butikis, Round 1
Big Brass Butikis, Round 1: “Taiwan’s Wild Side” I have a confession to make: I’m in love with Butiki Teas. They are one of five (maybe six?) companies that have my kind of business model. That being: What’s that? Is it weird? SWEET! I’ll buy ALL of it! It’s like they took a piece of…
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When You Wish Upon a Taiwanese White Tea
White Tea Week, Day 3: “When You Wish Upon a Taiwanese White Tea Back in the Fall, I saw a retweet from Greg “Norbu Tea” Glancy that just about put me into cardiac arrest. Japanese. White Tea. Oh. My. G-word. I saw mention of something like this existing on (of all places) Wikipedia a year…
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Into the Wild…Arbor
I’m still in the midst of a bit of an oolong kick. It “mostly” started because I was attempting to whittle down my backlog of unique teas. However, for some reason, the oolong-ing just…stuck. I do have my guesses. They make me feel really good. And not just “ZOMG-IMMA-CAFFEINE-MACHINE!!!” good – like, “Zen” good. A…
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Russian Orthodox White Tea?
Roughly six months back, I got it in my head that I had to hunt down some Taiwanese white tea. At first, I wasn’t sure it existed, but I vaguely remembered seeing mentions of it on Upton Tea’s website. Being a sucker for white teas – especially those from odd growing regions – I felt…
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Blending Tea and Fiction
To those that have been following the sporadic attempts to give this blog focus, you’ll know I’ve been experimenting with tea fiction. Sometimes with wondrous results…and other times with startling missteps. Train-wreck or not, I figured an exercise on how these yarns developed was worth exploration. Up until the “Great Vanishing” of September, I had…
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A Taste of Taiwan and a Teattle Trip
Let’s talk about networking…or rather how much I hate doing it. Around this time last year, I was among the many underemployed folks out there. My mother – a former career counselor – always stressed that making contacts helps in the process. I knew she was right; she’s almost always right. That didn’t stop me…