Selling Tea In Shanghai
John Smagula stopped for tea at the Nan Yuan tea store in Shanghai. He chatted with Zhou Yin and learned about the changing dynamics for tea sellers.
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When Tea Became Chai
If you imagined that Chai was part of the traditional Indian kitchens and comes with a long history, you’ll be surprised to know that chai is very much a 20th-century creation.
Mother’s Day Teas That Empower Women
The tea industry runs on the backs of women. Their strong yet nimble fingers pluck the delicate buds from the trees, and sort the imperfect from the perfect leaves. Yet in many tea-producing countries, women are far more likely to live in extreme poverty and have less access to education. However, some people are striving to change that narrative by educating, empowering, and enabling women in tea to rise up and bring others with them. This Mother’s Day Tea Journey wants to celebrate the companies and individuals who are helping make a difference for mothers and female tea workers around the world.
Automated Brewers
BRU is on a mission to simplify the tea-making process. This innovative automated brewer offers the freedom to set your brewing time, water temperature, and cup size at the twist of a dial and push of a button. It allows you to perform a “stacked steep” with three different infusions. BRU saves your previous settings so you can quickly repeat the process without changing the settings every time.
Taking Tea in the Wild
Camping season is in full swing. Whether you’re into car camping, hiking, backcountry camping, or canoe camping, one thing you will not want to leave behind is your favorite tea. In this article, Tea Journey explores five teas that are perfect for camping, considering their portability, ruggedness, flavor, and functionality.
Curios: Double Wall Gaiwan
Manual founder and creative director Craighton Berman funded this Tea Maker No.1 on Kickstarter. The minimalist tea brewer is made […]
Curios: The Deviehl is in the Details
Crafted from exotic materials, these magnificent cups from Deviehl are a testament to London’s ability to create heirlooms for the […]
Curios: The Scent of Tea
Literally steeped in alcohol, the subtlety of the rare teas in this collection from Jo Malone London was completely preserved, […]
Curios: Customized Tea Towels
Personalization was already taken to new heights when Spoonflower […]
Tea Books for Gifting
Whether it’s gorgeous coffee table books, intimate tea memoirs, or comprehensive volumes on the different tea regions of the world, tea lovers, love books about tea. Making them the perfect gifts for those tea enthusiasts in your life.
Advent Calendars
Advent calendars are a lovely way to anticipate the arrival of the holidays, to be entertained and to discover new teas. So, revel in the joy of expectation. Surprises are organized neatly by day.
Teas That Show You Care
Many companies in tea-producing regions around the world endeavor to improve the lives of women, their families, and communities. Celebrate Mother’s Day buy choosing gifts from conscious tea companies that care about making a difference.
Holiday Teas
Tea makers love the holidays because it gives them an excuse to blend the most wonderful flavors for consumers eager to cozy up to a cup. Select this category to find a dozen masterful blends from France, London, Canada, and the US for holiday delight.
Mother’s Day Teas That Empower Women
The tea industry runs on the backs of women. Their strong yet nimble fingers pluck the delicate buds from the trees, and sort the imperfect from the perfect leaves. Yet in many tea-producing countries, women are far more likely to live in extreme poverty and have less access to education. However, some people are striving to change that narrative by educating, empowering, and enabling women in tea to rise up and bring others with them. This Mother’s Day Tea Journey wants to celebrate the companies and individuals who are helping make a difference for mothers and female tea workers around the world.
Tea Caddies
Airtight, opaque containers are the best storage option. Stainless steel tins are the most common, but ceramic and other materials are well-regarded.
Tea Sets for Travelers
You should not have to settle for hotel-room tea. Serious tea drinkers want to ensure their beverage is always available, even on leisure or business journeys. Help them tea travel in style with the elegantly designed Mobile Moon set, which includes a teapot, a lid with filter, a cup, and a hard-shell travel case available in several colors, including Coral Red and classic Zen black (dark blue shown).
Holiday Tea Gift Sets
Tea gift sets offer an entire experience. Thoughtful and all encompassing. A tea gift set gives your friends and loved ones everything they need to become expert chaiwallahs, kombucha brewers and boba tea makers. Check out our selection of amazing tea gift sets that are guaranteed to impress.
How Millennials Take Their Tea
Tea may still take a back seat to coffee in the U.S., but it is gaining ground as more and more consumers enjoy its versatility, its health aspect and its variety of flavors and blends.
Tea Clubs & Subscriptions
Annual subscriptions for tea are growing in popularity more many reasons. Subscription plans are convenient and encourage tea discovery. Tea sellers love the flexibility of offering a range of teas that reveal current trends and consumer preferences for organic teas, for example. Bagged or loose-leaf, herbals or single-origin limited editions, tea clubs are a good value and great way to learn about tea.
Stylish Teapots
Having the perfect teapot on hand can only enhance the tea experience—especially with so many teapots available, each with its own personality and functionality.
Tea Gifts for Children
From nursery rhymes to imaginary parties with dolls and teddy bears, tea time captures children’s imagination like nothing else.
Tea on Campus
Tea is not only fast becoming a beverage of choice to help college students with late-night study crunching, it is also a source of community-building in the dorms.
Treasured Taste
In a category filled with smooth ceramic surfaces, the Twelve Tastes Teapot by Spin Ceramics stands out. Made out of rare Zisha clay, the teapot is produced through an involved, meticulous process.
For the Hostess, Tea is the New Wine
Looking for that perfect hostess gift? According to many experts, tea may be just as good a choice as wine—if not a better one.
For Teaware Collectors, An Insider’s Tour in Asia
Antiques Diva & Co. a custom antiques tour service is expanding to offer locales that will be of particular interest to true tea lovers: Six Asian locales.
Piping Hot
Tradition meets technology in the hottest thing to happen to bone china in recent history: a built-in heater. Glowstone is a heated smart mug created to conquer the task of keeping your tea or other hot beverage at optimum temperature.
Tea Towel Treasures
A new launch from those creative minds at Spoonflower brings Roostery to the marketplace, offering custom home décor, including tea towels, placemats, napkins, throw pillows and even occasional chairs.
Brewing Euphoria
For tea lovers who appreciate the complexity of tea—and have $1,500 to spend—the new Teforia machine employs advanced machine-learning to take tea’s thousands of years of history and modernizes it for today.
The Wall
These exquisite teas make perfect samplers to tantalize the palette. From shop favorites to a collection of chai Cornelia Bean will customize your order. Enhance the experience further, infuse these teas in the beautifully hand crafted glass tea infuser, The Wall.
Tea Gift Sets for Romance
Share a cup of love with Maya, blooming tea’s sensual flavor journey. Renew your senses with top notes of fresh eucalyptus layered with hints of dark and sweet plum. Maya’s lingering aftertaste of sweet mangos will evoke sweet memories of summer romance.
Holiday Teas
Tea vendors make something special of the holidays with seasonal blends, special gift tins and packaging and scented teas to warm the home.
Brewer Magic
Shopping for a brewer? Tea Journey covers the globe looking for innovative and advanced tea brewers to make every kind of team from matcha to machine-learning internet operated models.
Take Your Tea on a Picnic
Enjoying tea and food outside allows you to soak up nature’s vibrant energy. Tea-party picnics act as a soothing tonic for our overstimulated bodies and remind us that the simplest things in life often come with the greatest rewards.
How to Host the Ultimate Tea-Themed BBQ
Tea makes everything taste better, from BBQ sauce to spice rubs and frozen desserts. Learn how to use tea to cook delicious party food. Whether grilling outdoors with friends or enjoying a picnic on the beach, the Summer Fun issue is packed with suggestions for entertaining outdoors with tea-themed recipes and iced and cold-brew teas, pitchers, brewers, utensils, and gifts.
The Timeless Perfection of Yixing Teapots
In the households of Yixing, home of the celebrated purple clay teapots, ordinary potters are crafting something extraordinary.
Mammoth Tusk Teaset
Apple Computer designer Marc Newson recently unveiled a five-piece mammoth-ivory tea set for Georg Jensen, a Danish metalware brand.
Whimsical Tea Fish
Charm Villa’s whimsical tea bags are constructed of a Japanese fabric that requires 16 steps to make by hand.
A Rendezvous with Chance
Patterns in glazed tea bowls from the imperial Jianyao Kiln are “mysterious, sacred and transcendent” and some of the most celebrated national treasures in Japan.
Tea is the New Wine
Think of your personal relationship to wine. When you first discovered wine and how you learned to appreciate it. Most importantly, retrace how you learned about wine and why a particular wine became your favorite. Now, imagine rediscovering that awakening, education and discovery. It is time for Grand Cru Tea.
Tea Ornaments
Renowned for its rich heritage and innovative designs, Spode’s product portfolio appeals across the generations. The tea-time ornaments in this series make a perfect gift idea for the tea enthusiast. Each ornament can stand upright on a flat surface. Remove the ribbon and strings to use as year-round decor.
Holiday Teaware
Create a nostalgic festive atmosphere in your home with the Christmassy Toy’s Delight collection. The crockery is adorned with playful motifs in red, green, and white and brings back childhood memories. To combine, collect and give. This festive-themed small milk jug is ideal for a Christmas coffee break. Enjoy reflective moments.
Stove Top Kettles
Hear the kettle boil! Simple classics with elegant lines, sturdy stand-bys, kettles that make a fashion statement, and modern marvels with integrated thermometers.
Stocking Stuffers
This practical tea journal is the perfect companion on your journey through the word of tea. On 40 pages, you can quickly and easily record your thoughts during a tea tasting. Due to its clear design, the journal is suitable for tea novices and professionals.
Marten’s Favorites
Hamburg’s tea community is unique. Virtually all the tea imported into Germany is offloaded at Bremen and Hamburg, home to 211 tea companies. In addition, there are 300 tea companies in Berlin, and München has 152. Combined, these three provinces account for a 17% share of the German market. There are 3,858 tea companies in Germany, a testament to the fact that Germans love every type of tea. This collection of holiday gifts was curated by Marten Verch, a tea consultant, and writer who lives in Hamburg.
Confluence Topographic Tea Tray
This beautiful carved-wood tea tray lets you bring the tea plantation home with you.
Teabags too Charming to Compost
Most tea connoisseurs will choose loose leaf over a teabag. But one New York artist is doing something wonderful with teabags that you can’t do with loose leaf.
Lepod Tea Brewer
A Shanghai company has invented a tea appliance that it claims can brew tea as well as a skilled gong fu cha artist but in a fraction of the time.
The Significance of the Utah Teapot
Tea—in particular, one special teapot—holds a special place of honour in the history and ongoing development of digital 3D modelling.
Two Centuries of Iconic Spode
Italian ceramics maker Spode celebrates the bicentennial of its trademark pattern with an exquisite limited edition collection.
Rock On: Designer Porcelain Dinnerware
American interior designer Kathryn Scott’s new line of porcelain tea ware is inspired by natural forms and the grand traditions of porcelain design in China.