Allow me to introduce: The guy on the left smelling the cover of the Gaiwan/Gaibei is Stephane ("the king of tea blog" http://teamasters.blogspot.com/). The guy on the right who looked bemused at this is Jason ("The Prince of Pu-erh" and creator of the pu-erh community http://community.livejournal.com/puerh_tea/).
Not appearing on this picture but also present are Adam Teatime and his friend.
Stephane and Jason insisted that I take a picture of them without their glasses - so I did.
Talking about tea and politics, in some later postings I will describe some "Tea masters politics", the hate and love between the different tea masters I came across is absurd.
For example, after my first visit to the Wisteria Tea House some 2 weeks ago, I brought with me 2 servings of Lapsang Souchong, one for one of my tea masters the other for Stephane to try some bad lapsang (not because I dont like them, but in the name of education) since we had the good fortune of trying a top notch lapsang souchong some 3 weeks ago.
My tea master declined to try it - not because it was even visually obviously of low quality, but because he has some "unfinished business" with the owner of the Wisteria tea house - principles.
The place is beautifully simple and traditionally decorated. If you are in the possession of some good tea your self I suggest to go there, order the cheapest thing from the menu, save it for home and prepare your tea in this great atmosphare.
3 comments:
Let me be the first to discover your blog and leaves a comment! Welcome to the blog world and you can count on me to come here often.
Very interesting! I'm a fan of well written and well illustrated journals like this one :)
-vl.
Thank you "vl."
I am an even greater fan of your blog :-) (see links)
Hope to exchange some samples with you in the near future.
Will keep in touch.
Ido
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