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15 years

Posted on January 28, 2021 by MarshalNJanuary 28, 2021
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Someone on the tea discord pointed out to me that my blog is now 15 years old. I started it on a whim sitting in the Quincy dining hall, waiting for some meeting. For the first 5 or 6 years … Continue reading →

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Taobao price controls

Posted on January 3, 2021 by MarshalNJanuary 3, 2021
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I was just randomly browsing through Taobao the other day, looking to maybe buy a couple cakes of those mid-2000s Dayi that I finished up during the pandemic. Except, they’re all gone, and the seller that I bought them from … Continue reading →

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7542s

Posted on August 17, 2020 by MarshalNAugust 17, 2020
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Since there’s no travel or anything of that sort in the pandemic, tea buying has to go online (well for those of us who used to do it in person anyway). One thing I’ve done recently is try about a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged aged puerh, shopping | 6 Replies

The Authentic Taste of Puer Tea and Transnational Interests

Posted on May 15, 2020 by MarshalNMay 15, 2020
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The title of this post is the title of the paper that I’m linking to. Written by Yu Shuenn-Der, the deputy director of the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the paper is basically a very good critical … Continue reading →

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Posted in Information | Tagged aged puerh, traditional stored puerh, young puerh | 10 Replies

Staying at home

Posted on March 18, 2020 by MarshalNMarch 18, 2020
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The world’s in a lockdown. Those of us in Hong Kong have gone through this phase already – the whole panic buying of food and toilet paper, the closing of schools (which are still closed, at least physically, and probably … Continue reading →

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Hadong

Posted on January 22, 2020 by MarshalNJanuary 22, 2020
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I’ve never been to Hadong, Korea’s tea producing area. A couple months ago I got to go with a group of researchers as part of our collaborative research project, Making Modernity in East Asia. Our little sub-group specifically looks at … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged green tea, Korea, travel | 1 Reply

Becoming Healthy

Posted on November 12, 2019 by MarshalNNovember 12, 2019
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As you may be aware, I’ve been working on a research project on tea the past few years. A paper just came out recently in the edited volume Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia, from … Continue reading →

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Memorable places

Posted on November 9, 2019 by MarshalNNovember 9, 2019
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Let’s face it, a Darjeeling teabag from Dammann Freres is never going to be that great, nor is it remotely worth the price of admission. I had some Dongding in my backpack that I would infinitely prefer to drink instead, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged black tea, travel | 6 Replies

Free tea

Posted on October 18, 2019 by MarshalNOctober 18, 2019
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It’s been quiet around here. Like I’ve said before – I don’t have much that’s interesting to say these days, other than random snippets from my research. Drinking has been… pedestrian. Lots of teas that are just sort of daily … Continue reading →

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Posted in Teas | Tagged green tea, travel | 3 Replies

A long walk away

Posted on May 3, 2019 by MarshalNMay 3, 2019
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This shot is taken right where we got off our car as we entered the scenic park area – normal cars are not allowed to go in there now, you must take a bus. The only cars allowed in are … Continue reading →

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