Peter Luong is not a tea mystic. The founder of San Francisco’s Song Tea & Ceramics knows and values the subtle, complex characteristics of tea, but displays a polite skepticism about the many claims for its physical and mental health-enhancing abilities. “I don’t like the ‘fetishing’ of tea,” he says. “Tea should just taste good.”
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Janis Hashe is a freelance writer/editor specializing in the arts and travel. Favorite journeys so far: Bali, Scotland, the Isles de Madeleine. A native Californian, she's lived in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with London and Chattanooga, TN. Her first novel, "The Ex-Club Tong Pang," was published in 2013.