Everywhere I go there are mainland Chinese visitors in various forms of behavioral challenges. Here at Kansai Airport waiting for my flight to Hong Kong, a Chinese woman is shrieking at someone on her phone, in Mandarin. For like ½ hour already. I hope she misses getting on the same plane with me. All the flight attendants, in excessively polite and low speaking Japanese, were eyeing her with…
Japan and I are getting off at the right foot. Hokkaido soft serve ice cream first thing in the morning. As far as counterbalancing the stress of being a human being goes, this cone here pretty much singlehandedly does the trick.
Off to Asia! First stop: Japan-HK-Guangzhou in one breath. Feeling like I have to be a superhero/ninja/Bruce to survive China nowadays. Brace yourselves.
A seminal tea of legend, Tung Ting ‘Cold Summit’, oolong, embodied the historical and contemporary relationship of Taiwan to…
Stay tuned for the tea adventures to live again this Oct 10! Traveling to China, Taiwan, Japan again. I will be bringing a tour group with me this fall.
Yes, you who lifted content from my blog about the Ya Sai Phoenix tea and caused an article in Forbes.com with the title ‘Duck Shit tea takes the world by storm’….please, if you are going to lift my content, don’t insult the tea artisans by posting a completely different tea. The tea you posted is nothing remotely from the region of Phoenix. You, a tea purveyor, at least know you posted a rolled…