In this summer heat, you may not think about having a hot cup of tea. But, sometimes it just solves all your small problems that are really not worth worrying about. In Asia consuming something something hot in hot weather is considered good. This is because it gets your sweat glands and circulation going when …
My girlfriend gave me a few packets of Japanese Gold Leaf Tea. The Japanese characters on the packet says, Jun Kin Cha, or Genuine Gold Tea. Yes, it claims to have real gold in the tea. So, I opened the packet just to check. In between the granules of plum and seaweed tea, there were …
Seattle’s Sister City in Japan is Kobe, the capital of Hyogo Prefecture. To deepen the relationship between the two cities, they often have cultural exchanges. This fall, the Hyogo Japanese Tea Ceremony group visited Seattle to increase cultural awareness. It consisted of a group of young women who are learning tea ceremony accompanied by their adult mentors. …
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We live in this digital age where everything is just a finger tip away. Questions on anything and everything can be answered instantaneously. Want to know a meaning of a word? A good restaurant? directions? title of a song? artist? history? Immediate answers have become the norm. From an Asian philosophical perspective, as a society, we …
A cup of tea. A cup of tea is a good companion when you are alone and when you are with company. My Master, Shan-Tung Hsu, has just published another book, The Essence of Tea. Yes, it’s a tea book not a feng shui book. You may wonder what a feng shui master has to …
Many people think that Asians have a different metabolism or have different genes that keep them slim. However, if you just visit any Asian country, there is one thing that you may or may not notice that affects their body weight: what they drink. In Japan, what is most noticeable are the number of drinks …
