Tag: japan
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Horaido Gyokuro
October this year is a challenging month for me. There’s a lot going on! A lot of it is happy: several of my friends are getting married. The most difficult part, though, is that in a week I will need to travel a long distance to move my mother to be closer to her family.…
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Sapporo Shincha
Shincha, 新茶, is the first harvest Sencha of the year in Japanese tea gardens. When tea leaves are harvested, farmers pick the youngest, most supple leaves of the plant. As leaves age, they become tough and their taste becomes bitter, but the youngest leaves are soft and contain a large concentration of the organic compounds…
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Tea in Hokkaido
To old subscribers: hello and welcome back! It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here but it’s not like I haven’t been drinking a lot of tea. I decided to reinvigorate this blog a bit. To begin I’d like to talk about a wonderful experience I had in Japan this summer. This year…
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Spring Sencha from Obubu
In my trip to Japan this spring, I was looking for a way to visit some tea fields and learn about tea production from farmers. Several people told me that this would be difficult given that I don’t speak Japanese. It turns out it wasn’t that hard after all, thanks to the wonderful people at…
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Re-discovering Japanese tea
This spring I had the amazing chance to visit Japan for two weeks. While I certainly love Japanese tea (we had a Cha-no-yu ceremony at our wedding), I’ve always treated it as a little… less interesting than the wide breadth of Chinese and Taiwanese tea. This is not totally surprising since I’ve traveled in China…