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Well, here it is — a silly little video on how to use a gaiwan and a few ideas on what works and what doesn’t. It’s pretty basic. For most of you, it’s probably useless. I just thought that given … Continue reading
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First of all — the result of the last little question is in, and trentk, you should email me (marshaln at gmail). Chaozhou, yixing, tokoname indeed — or some other variation of Japanese clay pot. Now, yesterday was a nice … Continue reading
Salsero on Teachat gave me some tea recently, two greens, to be precise (and one darjeeling). I drink greens fairly casually. My family, being from the Shanghai region, mostly drink green teas, usually longjing or biluochun. My grandfather drinks nothing … Continue reading
As many of you have probably noticed, I almost never use gaiwans anymore. In fact, last time I touched any of them was when I sold one of them in my teaware firesale. Before that…. I don’t remember when the … Continue reading
Since I mentioned it yesterday, today I whipped out my gaiwan and tried the same tea — the aged tieguanyin from my Taiwanese candy store, to see how the gaiwan fares. The short version is: not too well. I think … Continue reading
I realized today I haven’t touched any of my gaiwans since I returned from Taiwan. I remember I used to use the gaiwan for everything…. from greens to blacks. Gaiwan was my weapon of choice. Gaiwan was the only thing … Continue reading
Sorry folks, been rather busy the past few days and haven’t had a chance to drink real tea. Instead, it’s been teabags of some sort or another… such as Bigelow Darjeeling (which tastes nothing like Darjeeling) and that kind of … Continue reading
I went back to Maliandao today, mainly to get this Two sets of idential teaware, tiny gaiwans with cups that are big enough to take one infusion. This is so that I can conduct taste tests of two things against … Continue reading