14 best cafés and tea rooms for green tea in Tokyo
Here are the capital’s best cafés and tea rooms for enjoying authentic Japanese green tea, matcha, hojicha and more. Tea is an art form in Japan. There’s often a formality…
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A Tea Lover’s Adventure: Tour The Best Tea Houses In Taiwan
From the slopes of Alishan to tea farms of Hualien and Taitung, fantastic oolong, Pu’er, and Japanese teas can be found throughout Taiwan. Traveling tea lovers probably already know that…
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An Assam Startup offers ‘ghost pepper’ and gold in a cup of tea
An Assam-based startup offers “ghost pepper” and “gold” tea among its 40 or so specialty blends because it combines the 24-carat edible golden metal with the world’s hottest chilli, “bhoot…
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Twisted Tea Unveils Brand New Sweet Tea Whiskey
Look at ol’ Twisted Tea stepping up their game a bit. We all know Twisted Teas as the premier hard iced tea, that can sneak up on you in a…
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Tea-infused cocktails are trending on TikTok, here are 8 to try
Last summer may have witnessed the rise in hard tea – but this summer, according to TikTok, fresh tea steals the show as the key ingredient in homemade cocktails. Whether you’ve been…
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Teahouses offer a perfect brew of refreshment
A faint scent of tea wafts into the air as a wooden door gently opens, revealing a classical decorative style. The location is a traditional-style teahouse hidden down an alleyway…
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Rare Assam tea sold for ₹1 lakh per kg
Pabhojan Gold Tea, a rare variety of organic tea from Assam’s Golaghat district, was on Monday sold at a whopping ₹1 lakh per kg, the highest this year, by an…
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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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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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How samurai, statesmen, and scholars shaped the Japanese tea ceremony
The ritual of drinking tea in Japan, known as chado, evolved over centuries into a codified practice, steeped in Zen thought, mindfulness, and simplicity. The ritualized drinking of tea in…
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The Caribbean’s Newest Tea House Is in the Rainforest in Antigua
It’s a most unusual — but perhaps eminently appropriate — location for a Caribbean tea house: in the middle of the rainforest. But that’s precisely the delight of the new Antigua…
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