Vanessa from the Deli invited us to come hear one of our favorite tea vendors speak. Benjamin Harrison from Rishi Tea was in town and Billie, Joe and I went down to drink tea and here him speak about tea. I won’t do a transcript of our time, though I did take some copious notes; [...]

When in San Francisco last month I visited Aroma Tea Shop (that’s their logo on the left), the one on Polk Street (there are two shops.) Both shops are owned and run by Haymen Daluz and his wife, Ying Wu. I was looking for a place with lots of quality imported oolong and I was [...]

Wuyi leaves on 2nd steeping Originally uploaded by zsnit Had a yummy roasty Wuyi today thanks to Vanessa at the Deli. I believe it’s the Rishi organic wuyi but I’ll confirm that. (yup.) Brewed it at 2 tsp to 8 oz at 180 degrees for 3 minutes. Nice rich caramel color to the tea and [...]

I was over at the Deli today and met up with Vanessa, our tea expert for some tea goodness. She got me some nice wu yi to try and for today some Green Dragon oolong. This tea is made in the same town as where Dong Ding originates (Lu Gu or Luku). Turns out that [...]

Drinking Dong Ding today – an oolong form Taiwan. This one is from Rishi Teas, probably between a year and two years old. Factoids on Dong Ding: lightly oxidized, name refers to a place but also a process, high mountain grown, hand picked, hand rolled into balls, first planted in the 1800s, thought to be [...]

We’ve had a tradition here in the IT department of drinking tea and learning about tea for a few years now but we’ve held off posting much about tea. I think our original concern was that it wasn’t really what we were about. It’s true, we aren’t about tea, we are a group of geeks [...]