My regular tea menu includes basically three kinds of teas these days.  Aged oolongs are the ones I drink the most often, followed by youngish puerh (youngish means nothing from the past two years, generally speaking).  Then I throw in some occasional...

I have lots of these oddities, here's one that I unpacked recently from my boxes. This is a pretty standard julunzhu pot, with a straight and short spout and somewhat rounded shape.  These were popular export items for Japan.  If you look closely,...

Okakura Kakuzo's The Book of Tea, published in 1906 in New York, is still a book that many read when they are looking for something on tea consumption, especially with regards to Japanese tea.  It still floats around in the coffee/tea section of...

More teaware This is a chaozhou teapot, uncharacteristically large for something of this type.  It's a typical 300-400ml size.  I've never seen one that big before.  It's supposedly from turn of the century -- bought from someone who claimed it was a...

Haven't posted any teaware porn for a while, so here goes I love this bowl.  The only flaw is that the brown colour on the exterior is probably a tad bit too much.  These bowls are great for matcha, because their dark colour provides a sharp relief...