Tea enthusiasts, you're not alone. BillAddison profiles Tea Habitat in Alhambra.
means “tea.” Codified steps define the ceremony: the way to wipe down aor clay pot with a towel, decant the brewed tea into a small pitcher first before serving, hand someone a cup. The custom partly developed in Guangdong, the birthplace ofand also of Shan, who moved to Southern California from the area with her family in the 1980s, when she was a teenager.
The more I learned, and the more people I met who knew universes beyond me, the more I was enthralled specifically by oolongs. If the best green teas are the super-fresh mozzarellas of the tea world and savory black teas are the cheddars so sharp they’re almost tannic, oolongs cover much of the vast territory in between: Some register as springy and almost creamy, but other variations can also be sweet or nutty or vegetal or charcoal-roasted and meaty.
But I invested in tea equally for the connection. Choosing not to have a stable home dismantled me in ways I’m still piecing together. For starters, I was terrible at building any self-sustaining structure — morning exercise, an hour reading, anything to create continuity in my days. Various storytelling traditions recount the soul’s need to catch up with the body during travel. If my soul has to follow my exact trajectory to rejoin my body, it’s probably in the vicinity of Dearborn, Mich.
It didn’t take long to understand that, with the subject of tea, there weren’t just rabbit holes to tumble down, there were catacombs.gong fu cha with someone exceptionally knowledgeable. “Ceremony” can be a big, affected, spooky word. For many of us it connotes weddings or holy sacrament. In the scope of traditional Chinese tea culture, it means making the effort to be present: to prepare the tea respectfully, to reveal its qualities, to show up to the moment with the others around you, to be your own sense of place right then and there.
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