How wonderfully relaxing Sundays can be!  It’s the one day of the week when there’s time to chat and enjoy bowls or cups of tea with special friends!  This Sunday I was treated to Chinese-style ‘afternoon tea’ by Bin Shao, my Chinese friend who sells the fabulous Mao Jian tea that I wrote about last time.  He took me to Royal China on London’s

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 A couple of weeks ago, I was given two amazing green teas by a Chinese friend here in London and they’re so good that I simply have to… read more...

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 As I write, I am sitting in the cool and calm of Babington’s Tea Room in Rome.  Outside in the Piazza di Spagna, the temperature has soared to well over 30° C but inside I am quenching my thirst with a glass of refreshing iced peach tea.  I am here… read more...

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 A Puerh Ceremony at Postcard Teas

Postcard Teas is truly one of my most favourite places in London and I am so lucky to count the owner, Tim d’Offay, and his Japanese wife Asako (pictured above) as my friends.  On September 4th, they organised a wonderful puerh ceremony so that we could meet Di Liu who… read more...

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 I popped into Postcard Teas in London the other day to see the owner, my friend Tim d’Offay, and I was thrilled when he very generously gave me a sample of dry leaf of his latest Da Hong Pao oolong from Fujian province.  So I brought it home, set time aside to… read more...

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While I was in Taiwan in the Spring, I met a lovely tea teacher called April Jin (pictured with me on the left) who told me that she was coming to London in July this year to speak at a Taiwanese tea event to be called ‘Everyday is a Good Day’.  When… read more...

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 As I explained in my previous blog about my recent trip to Taiwan, the oldest part of Taipei is home to a number of reassuringly traditional, established tea stores that have been trading for many years… read more...

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