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What to expect when visiting Taiwan
I regularly hear from tea drinkers planning trips to Taiwan, and I’ve noticed some common misconceptions come up again and again. So I thought it’d be interesting to explore a few of these. A lot of it is exactly what I expected when I got here too, and coming to terms with the realities has Continue reading
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Down a kettle rabbit hole
For the past 9 months, I’ve been testing kettles in my regular tea drinking. The differences from one to another have been pretty significant, so along the way I decided to start documenting it. It’s been a fun project. It started about 18 months ago, when I got a clay kettle, after many years of Continue reading
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How Taiwan has changed my tea drinking
It’s been two and a half years since I moved to Taiwan, and I’ve been thinking about how it’s changed my relationship with tea. In California, I’d been a regular tea drinker for over a decade, but since moving here, my understanding of tea has deepened so much, and so quickly, that it’s hard to Continue reading
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