[ Tea Ceremony: Flowering Tea ] In my last post I promised to come back with a tea that will be exotic. Keeping the promise, we present you Chinese Flowering Tea today. Flowering tea is an experience. It is just not about the colour or the flavour of the tea but also about the bloom and the surprise. It comes as a small bamboo ball, once it comes in contact with hot boiling water, it let lose and blooms into a flower. The blooming process is very simple yet enchanting to watch. Flowering tea also known as blooming tea is…
[ Tea Ceremony: Gyokuro the great ] I didn’t know what Gyokuro is, so when Mishael told me, he is trying out Gyokuro I was pretty nonchalant. While I was preparing the photo session, Mishael explained, what Gyokuro really is, and why I should be really excited to taste such amazing tea. I guess he was disgusted to see me unexcited. I mean, I am usually very excited when we shoot and do the ceremony, but for Gyokuro you need to be overly excited, which I wasn’t. He went on, “Gyokuro is not an everyday tea. This is one of…