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Calgary’s First Tea Festival

Tea tasting cups that came with the entrance fee to the inaugural Calgary Tea Festival on October 24, 2026.

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Oriental Beauty

Tasting this luxury oolong (Oriental Beauty) on Thanksgiving makes me extremely grateful, as this tea is one of the most labour-intensive to produce!

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Grandma Higa’s Sanpin Cha

Lightly scented jasmine tea from Okinawa.

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Autumn Moon Festival

Golden Roasted Hojicha Tea for the Autumn Moon Festival

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Mt. Fuji Ryokucha

Sakuraco box - August 2026 tea tasting

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Matcha Amore

Zinc Selenium Matcha from Guizhou, China

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Meitan Yellow

Meitan Yellow Tea from Guizhou, China.

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Persian Tea

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Lei Shan Silver Ball Cha

Silver Ball tea - from Leishan County, Guizhou, China

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Adzuki Tea

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Menghai White Tea/Báichá

White tea from Hengrufeng Tea Factory, Menghai, Yunnan

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Da Hong Pao

A beautiful oolong tea from northern Fujian.

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Side by Side Tastings - Hojicha

Makinohara Hojicha liquor (steeped 3 minutes)

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March of Teas

Newly purchased tea from Tea Trader in Calgary. They even sent me two gift samples! Thank you 😊

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My Japanese Teaware

handmade Tokoname teapot

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Sakura Blossom Tea💮

Spring is here….

My Sakuraco tea tastings for March, 2026.

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Honey Fairyland Tea🍯

Photo: wet leaves of Honeyfairyland yellow tea

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Testing Clay Bodies for Tea

Chinese machine-made pot (left); Vietnamese handmade teapot (right)

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Osmanthus Zhangping Shui Xian

Osmanthus Fragrance - Zhangping Shui Xian (Spring 2025)

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Zhangping Shui Xian

My tasting notes of the Zeng Puyu’s (Spring 2025) Zhangping Shui Xian.