Author: Oolong Owl

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July 2015 Simple Loose Leaf – Tea Review

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July 2015 Simple Loose Leaf tea club time! Simple Loose Leaf box info – Simple Loose Leaf is a monthly Co-op tea box that sends 4 to 6 loose leaf tea samples (1/4oz size) – you get a wide assortment of different teas such as straight teas, blends and herbals. With being in the Tea Co-op, you get a membership ID. If you enjoy and want more tea that you’ve sampled, you can purchase it from the Simple Loose Leaf Tea Shop for 50% off. For your first box, you can enter OolongOwl for a 50% off your first Simple Loose Leaf’s Tea co-op box! In… Continue reading, hoot!

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Summus Tea Cold Brew Bottle with Black and Oolong Teas – Tea Review

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I purchased this cold brew tea set, along with extra teas from Summus Tea during the World Tea Expo 2015. I had to have it – the tea samples were delicious and the glass bottles were so pretty! Summus Tea sells fine, hand picked, organic Taiwanese teas. Admittedly, I saw a few bottle designs at World Tea Expo, but this one was special. Summus had COLOUR CHANGING BOTTLES! OMG OMG! Summus had a few designs, a tiger, butterflies and this one which I picked: tree with leaves and birds. Out of the box, the design is white and so cute. Apparently, it was designed by… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 4 – Weird Teaware Finds of ebay

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Last Friday while eating my lunch I was looking through ebay and showing off my finds to Chatzy tea friends and twitter. Oh man did I find weird stuff! I imagine not all of you readers are on twitter, and these tea ware finds were just too crazy to not see! I’ll link everything I found just in case someone really wants to get it. Items linked July 2015. Tea Pets If you get deep into the bowels of ebay and aliexpress looking at tea pets, you’ll find quite a few NSFW ones. I won’t link those. Even deeper into the bowels,… Continue reading, hoot!

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Because you can never have too many rice pattern gaiwans and tea cups

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Just keep me away from ebay and aliexpress – I keep finding these pretty gaiwans, tea cups and tea pets (I also find really weird stuff, but that’s another topic). I guess the good thing is as I downsize my tea stash, I’m creating more room for the tea ware. The Haul: The first item I purchased was the cups off aliexpress. I was inspired to get a rice pattern cup off Verdant Tea, who had some for a nice price, however I wanted a cup with more colour on it. I found these off aliexpress, which were a nice price,… Continue reading, hoot!

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2011 Chunhui Unfermented Sheng Pu’er from LongRun Tea – Tea Review

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While I was at the recent World Tea Expo, I was super happy to find a seller there that carried lots of Pu’er – LongRun Tea! I walked away with 2 pu’er cakes. Looking at their website, I couldn’t find a store front. After more poking around, it appears they sell on Amazon! Hey guys, there’s pu’er on Amazon! Today, I’ll be reviewing LongRun Tea’s 2011 Chunhui Unfermented Sheng Pu’er. It’s a 357g cake, priced at $28.99 as I write this. I scored my cake for $20 at WTE, nice! The tea in this pu’er cake is Lingcang, Yunnan spring material from… Continue reading, hoot!

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Matcha Brand Comparison 2 – Round 1 of 3

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Hi Tea readers! Today is another installment of comparing various matcha brands. These matcha comparisons will be different than the amazon matcha comparison as these matchas are the higher quality and more expensive matchas. I have 3 Rounds to go through, with each around a specific price bracket. This round, all these matchas are on the cheap end, under $9.50 per ounce. Amazon Matcha Comparison Round 2 – Matcha Brand Comparison $9.99 to $16.99 an ounce Round 3 – Matcha Brand Comparison $17 to $48 per ounce For amazon tea buyers, don’t fret as some of these are available on amazon. For full disclosure, like… Continue reading, hoot!

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Chi Whole Leaf Tea Powder – Tea Review

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Tea powder time! With matcha being the popular drink these days, we should also try other powdered teas. Chi Whole Leaf has a line up 5 different teas! I’ll be trying 3 of the 5 today, so let’s get to it. Tasting of Chi Whole Leaf Tea Powder Green mint Green Mint has a medicinal and mint scent. This tea powder contains Peppermint, Eucalyptus Leaf and Darjeeling Green tea. I was lazy so I used my DavidsTea Matcha Maker Tea Tumbler. I mixed the Green Mint tea with water and ice. It came out a deep dark army green. The flavor is… Continue reading, hoot!

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Kikkoman Pearl Organic Green Tea Soy Milk – Tea Review

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I crashed my local Asian supermarket not too long ago and raided it for all the tea goodies and cheap vegetables. To my surprise, I spotted this and had to try it – Kikkoman Pearl Organic Green Tea Soy milk, for tea lovers! I found this on the shelf as this is the type of soy milk that doesn’t need to be refrigerated unless it is opened. The packaging looks nice, though I’m confused why there’s a lemon in it. Nutrition stats are pretty standard soy milk ones. To premise this review, I regularly drink soy milk. Soy juice (what my… Continue reading, hoot!

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Bitaco Colombian Green Tea – Tea Review

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During the World Tea Expo 2015 I came across Colombian grown tea! It is always neat to see another region that has tea and to see the difference in taste due to the soil and environment. Today I’m going to review Bitaco‘s Colombian Green Tea. Tasting of Bitaco’s Colombian Green Teas Colombian Green Tea Let’s start off with the straight, unflavored green tea. That way we will have a base to taste the flavored tea blends. The leaf is long, thin and wirey. The potent smell of the leaf is quite marine and vegetal reminding me of Korean sejak. I did a western steep… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 3 – Being a Canadian Tea Drinker in the US

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With it recently being Canada Day (July 1st) and living in the US, I was thinking what it was like being a Canadian Tea Drinker. There’s a sort of pride in being a Canadian Tea drinker and being set apart from our North American neighbour. Before my obsessive tea drinking days begun – I had heard that tea sold in Canada was better quality as 1. We get the British stuff and 2. Canadians will not drink crappy tea. I googled around for proof. Right off the bat the two big tea bag brands – Red Rose and Tetley pop up… Continue reading, hoot!