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Ya-Ya’s Tea-Board

News from the Teahouse, about tea and more

Archive for the 'Teaware' Category


A few of our new Yixing posts … in 3D!

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with product presentation. While nothing can replace tasting a tea before you purchase a reasonable amount or take a teapot into your hands and feel it, this isn’t really anything you can do when purchasing tea and teaware online. If you live in Christchurch, you’re always welcome to swing by and […]

Very last chance for Christmas presents

NZ Post promises to deliver parcels in time for Christmas if they are sent with parcel post fast by tomorrow.
I thought I’d give you a short overview of a few of our new arrivals in the teaware section (they aren’t on the official teaware page yet) and some other recommendations.
Note: Click on the pictures for […]

Last minute Christmas presents

Just a very quick update on new stock that’s available now (well, tomorrow, after I’ve picked up the packages from the port in Lyttelton).
To make it possible to order the new tea pots and tea trays (yes, we finally have these back in stock!) just in time for Christmas, I’ve just uploaded photos, a short […]

New Yixing teapots arriving soon and Ya-Ya now on Facebook

I’ve been pretty busy in the last couple of weeks since my return from the Zealong plantation, and today’s post won’t be a long one, but I wanted to share some exciting news with you.
To start with, I would like to announce the imminent arrival of a new shipment of teapots from China’s famous pottery […]

Ritualizing the habit, Part Two - Tea Cups: yunomi, chawan, cha bei and co.

This is a post I have been planning to write for a long time (I wrote the first part in this mini series about teapots in July last year). One of the reasons this post was such a long time in the making is that the seemingly easy subject of tea cups is quite a […]