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Ya-Ya’s Tea-Board

News from the Teahouse, about tea and more

Archive for 2007/10


Gongfu cha - the Chinese way of tea

A recent article on T-Ching - or more specifically - the ensuing discussion has inspired me to explain the basic concepts of the Chinese tea ceremony - gongfu cha.
If you dwell in tea culture every day, it is easy to forget how much of what we regard as the basics is everything but common knowledge […]

Green innovations: 12 ways to recycle used tea leaves

Today is Blog Action Day!
A day on which an estimated 14,000 blogs worldwide will feature a post on our most valuable, but also most vulnerable asset: the environment! The aim of this effort is to raise awareness and get everyone talking, to highlight problems and offer ways to help making a difference.
This is the world […]

Tea Tasting: All the tea in China, October 21th November 4th

In our next tea-tasting, we will focus on Chinese tea and tea culture.
China, being the mother land of tea, has an almost 5000-year long history of tea and is home to an incredible variety of tea. From white to black tea, from oolong to pu-erh: it was all developed there!
We’ll retrace the development of tea […]

Yoga, Chai & Chapati night

[ October 28, 2007; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Our popular monthly yoga night at the teahouse.

Visit Yoga Kula for more information about the kind of yoga our instructor Katie is teaching.

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Admission $17 (includes chai & chapati after a healthy dose of yoga).
We strongly recommend to make a reservation since our capacity is very limited.
Phone 365-2802 for more details and/or to reserve […]

Tea Tasting: All the tea in China

[ November 4, 2007; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] In our next tea seminar, we will focus on tea and tea culture in the mother land of tea: China.

Start: 5:30 p.m.

Price: $16 (includes seminar and various teas)