Price cuts brew success for milk tea brands
This summer, the growing tribe of milk tea lovers in China will likely find glad tidings as prominent brands such as Heytea and Nayuki announced they had slashed the prices…
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Trading Tea Culture
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Heritance Tea Factory Hotel, Nuwara Eliya – Sri Lanka
Step back into 19th century Ceylon at this luxury hotel high up in the Sri Lankan mountains Let me share a bit more about an incredible trip to Sri Lanka,…
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Tour guides offered tea picking jobs
With many tour guides struggling to make ends meet, the Huangshan Association of Tour Guides released a statement last week suggesting them to take up temporary jobs. And despite travel…
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New Japanese tea leaves auction for record 1.96 mil. yen
A 1-kilogram batch of hand-rolled new Japanese tea leaves from central Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture sold for a record 1.96 million yen (about $15,466) at the season’s inaugural auction on Monday.…
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Asian American motherhood inspires canned milk tea company
Local moms create a heritage brand with Twrl Milk Tea Local moms Olivia Chen and Pauline Ang launched Twrl Milk Tea, a canned, plant-based pea milk tea, in 2021. Both…
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Forget whisky and wine, tea pairings are the latest trend in fine dining! Here’s a beginner’s guide
Sommeliers in restaurants, as we all know, usually recommend the right whisky or wine to drink with a dish. The right pairing can summon amazing flavours, just as the wrong…
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What do you like to eat with your cup of tea?
A beginner’s guide to understanding tea and food pairing from a Dubai-based tea expert Dubai: There is more to tea than brewing it right. For example, sweet or savoury snacks…
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Toronto’s new design and bubble tea cafe hopes to build a bridge between artists in Asia to Canada. Meet Benkei Hime
Knowing the toll the pandemic has taken people worldwide, Jason Wang was inspired to create a “unique and audacious” experience for people to look forward to when restrictions eased. And…
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Exotic tea beers and fruit ales
March is ON and American craft brewers are addressing things with a full slate of new beer offerings you’re gonna want to chase down. A Fan Favorite Returns (Escondido, CA) –…
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Teemaa Teahouse—Tea-making Materials Used for Reinterpreting a Contemporary Space
The female duo Peng Luo and Xinyuan Sui, both hailing from China where they respectively received a tea education, founded Teemaa Teahouse in order to bring tea culture to Finland, a country known…
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This Nagoya cafe offers a private room to enjoy tea, meditation, and solitude in total darkness
When we tried it, we actually felt reborn! Wake up in the morning, get ready for work, eat breakfast, take a packed train to work, come home, do housework…the daily…
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A potted history of Vietnamese tea
An old Asian scholar once said: “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” And he was not wrong.…
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Master Mixologist: Ben Rojo and Don Papa Rum
Winter is certainly in full swing, which means it’s the perfect time to sip some tasty rum cocktails. Ben Rojo is known for seasonal libations using Don Papa Rum that highlight the…
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There is a new way to take your tea, says Douglas
The UK’s first Korean tea bar, or ‘hanok’ in Korean, is brought to you by Sooji Im, a former management consultant who found that overseeing $600m infrastructure projects was not…
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This Shizuoka glamping site has it all: gym, pool and a tea field with Mt Fuji view
This could just be one of the most complete glamping facilities in Japan A new glamping site is opening in the heart of Shizuoka, a prefecture responsible for producing up to 40…
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Teemaa Celebrates Tea Culture in Helsinki
Yatofu Creatives employs raw, honest materials to create an authentic teahouse and shop A new shrine to tea culture—and a counterpoint to Finland’s prolific coffee concepts—has been unveiled in downtown…
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Raising spirits with green tea vodka
What happens when a vice-president at a well-known hedge fund with bullish ambition decides to leave the finance sector and pursue her passion for clean ingredients? Well, a new product…
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Taiwanese Concept Gong cha Eyes Aggressive U.S. Expansion
One goal is to open 50 company-run stores in Chicago over the next several years. Bubble tea goes by many names. Boba, boba tea, milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca…
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Cau Dat Tea Museum
Built in 1929 by French, and located in Xuân Trường Town, Đà Lạt City of Lâm Đồng Province, 1.2 hectares, Cầu Đất Tea Department was the first place has a…
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The centuries-old tea forest
Visiting the thousand-year-old Snow Shan tea “elder” Mr. Dang Van Chung, Chairman of Cao Bo commune People’s Committee (Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province), welcomed us with a pot of…
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