This worldwide pandemic has extorted a high price for many people. For most of us , we are staying at home, working from home and simply riding out the pandemic.
There is a silver lining in that we get to spend quality (quantity) time with our family. If you had been wishing you had more free time to pursue a hobby or interest, you would suddenly found yourself granted this wish. Many of my friends are learning to cook and bake (they cheated by buying a bread making machine). Like it or not, I hope you are making use of this lockdown fruitfully.
If you enjoy your Chinese tea like me, this lockdown period would allow us to explore and appreciate our tea and tea ware. I find myself more deliberate in my tea brewing. I try different tea and tea ware, infusion styles and get to drink more tea on a daily basis. There may be certain teapots that pour slowly...so I reduced the tea leaves. There are certain pu erh that does better, in taste and aroma, with longer infusion times.
A few readers had asked me whether I will be buying more tea. Yes. I hope to travel nearer the end of the year, Moreover, with many countries attempting to restart their economies, many post offices worldwide will be resuming International deliveries by June. I will update my readers in due course on the reopening of my mini tea store.
I had just opened a 2007 Lan Tie. Produced by Jing Mei Tang, this 13 year old cake stored in my part of the world, has a very traditional old style taste and aroma. It is strong, herbal and medicinal. Very faint sweet aftertaste and slightly intoxicating. A fun tea session.
On second thought, maybe I should get a bread making machine. Time for my 2nd tea session for the day,
