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A Year Later: Dancing around the world and bringing it home

Minh-Tam — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:05:47 +0000

It’s been very close to a year since I started this blog. This morning before San Francisco Dance Sensation, sitting above this magnificent scenery, I look back at the year that just went by. A year, such a short time period, yet so much happened. I quit my stable full time job to leave on [...]

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Zen Meditation Retreat: Antaiji – Temple of Peace

Minh-Tam — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:19 +0000

Dear readers, Thank you for having accompanied me so far on my journey to discover Vietnamese teas. Today, I embark on a different journey, a spiritual journey at Antaiji. During this one month period, I will be away from the Internet. I will be looking forward to continue on sharing with you my discoveries in [...]

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Tea House in Ho Chi Minh City

Minh-Tam — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:30:33 +0000

As I resumed my quest for a better understanding of Vietnamese tea culture, I chanced upon this tea house hidden in a small alleyway – Tra Dao Viet, 7G Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Q1, HCMC. As I took a seat in this peaceful abode, I felt a calm surge of excitement. In Hanoi, I had [...]

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Singapore High Teas: TWG Tea Garden @ Marina Bay Sands

Minh-Tam — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:30:34 +0000

The only other item on my Singapore agenda aside from dancing was to try out a few Singaporean high teas. It turns out that during my stay, time only allowed me to try out one venue. Sokmean told me before I left Montreal that, if I was a tea passionate, I had to know of [...]

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Singapore: Discovering Teh Tarik

Minh-Tam — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Standing next to me on the MRT was a young Indian-looking man. Having just arrived in Singapore less than an hour ago, I decided to find out about the Singaporean tea world from a local. It turns out that he was a foreign student and would be returning to Kingston, Ontario, the next day. He [...]

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Swinging/Whipping it out in Swingapore

Minh-Tam — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:21 +0000

I’ve been in northern Vietnam for a bit over two weeks now exploring the fascinating world of tea. As the last hour of my stay in Hanoi trickles away, I turned on my iPhone for the first time since my arrival in Vietnam. The airport suddenly looked very different as I traveled towards the departure [...]

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How the Vietnamese like their teas

Minh-Tam — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:04 +0000

As I set foot in Vietnam, my first urge was to savour a warm cup of tea. I figured it would be nice to enjoy tea as the locals do. I asked my uncle, an avid tea drinker, for tea stall recommendations. Very much anticipating my first glass of tea after a long flight halfway [...]

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Drinking tea on the street!

Minh-Tam — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:00:28 +0000

Something unique about tea culture in Vietnam is the tea stalls that we can find at practically every street corner in Hanoi. People would drop by for 10 to 30 min, just enough time to refresh themselves with a glass of tea and exchange a few words with the other customers. Late at night, it [...]

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Chè Sen: Lotus Tea

Minh-Tam — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:29:24 +0000

Back in the days of yore, it was said that fresh lotus tea was prepared by leaving dried tea leaves in a lotus flower at dusk. At dawn the next day, one would collect the tea from the flower and the drizzle from its leaves. The tea would then be infused in the drizzle on [...]

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Three first foreign members to a Vietnamese Tea Cooperative

Minh-Tam — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:37:38 +0000

The next day, over lunch before parting ways. We had Mrs. Hiêp explain to us in further details the functioning of her cooperative. She explained that it is currently made up of 37 families. 32 out of the 37 families representatives are women. Men usually take care of trimming, watering, spreading manure, and feeding the [...]

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