After our successful first anniversary party, we’re thrilled to have some more live music going on in the teahouse.
This time around, Christchurch’s Black Market Art will celebrate the release party of their brand new album Kids. On route to Greenland (where they’re planning to busk sometime next year, according to their ambitious future plans) […]
This morning I had to start thinking about an emotion I don’t feel very often: rage! I believe that rage is intrinsically tied to the lack of understanding of somebody else’s action (as in stupid driving behaviour, etc.)
The cause for my rage (Diane’s reaction was closer to shock) was somebody’s inexplicable urge for destruction, taken […]
The annual New Zealand International Film Festival is always a great time to see documentaries that are not likely to make their way into mainstream movie theaters or video stores. But when we read through this year’s program, we got really excited: the latest work of famous documentary film-maker Les Blank (Burden of dreams, The […]
As part of our mission to educate the public about tea, we are offering private tea-tastings for small to medium-sized groups in our teahouse. We can arrange these tea-tastings for a range of personal tastes or levels of expertise.
Generally, these tastings start with an overview of tea in its various forms, may include demonstrations of […]
We’ve recently received multiple questions about wu-long tea in regards to advertised slimming properties, so I’ve decided to shed some light onto the subject.
(People are often confused by the terminology used in advertisements for “wu-long slimming teas”. These advertisements seem to always use the more exotic sounding word wu-long, but both terms, oolong (generally used […]