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Hooty Tea Travels – Seattle’s Vital Tea Leaf

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Now that I’m in Seattle I have been visiting all the local tea shops. I wished I checked out more tea shops while in LA (like all 4 of them, geeze), but awesomely Seattle has a lot of tea shops! For the first few weeks I was staying within walking distance to Pike Place Market. A block away from Pike Place Market is TWO Vital Tea Leaf shops, one north and one south. I went to the south one, close to the Target. Another day while in the International District, I saw they were opening yet another location in Seattle. Besides… Continue reading, hoot!

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Matcha Kit Kat tasting

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When I was in Vancouver, the local Asian grocery store had a big display of Matcha Kit Kats and they were marked down quite cheap. I was pretty excited at cheap Matcha Kit Kats and bought a couple bags, however I regret I didn’t buy more to share. I’ve seen Matcha Kit Kats at my local Asian grocery store in California, but they were 3 times the price after money conversion! I quite like Kit Kats, especially the flavored ones like orange. My Dad in Canada seems to run into the flavored Kit Kats more than I do here in… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 19 – I’m tired of using the same gaiwan

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I’ve been in Seattle for 3 weeks, time is certainly flying by. I’ve been spending most of my time walking around town carrying groceries and running errands, I get 17k steps a day without even trying. On weekends we’ve been touring houses, put a few bids on things, lost some, but finally won something last week! Hopefully the process goes smoothly and we’ll move in a few weeks. That said, it looks like I’ll be bumming around corporate housing and then Airbnb until we can get in the house. Unfortunately, my stuff will stay in storage until we can move in… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 18 – Hello Hoot from Seattle

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I finally arrived in Seattle! I had a number of stressful days during the move. I have a big tea and tea ware collection, so I was nervous letting movers pack it, yet they know how to pack and it is insured that way so it is best to let them do the packing. I did lurk by the tea stash and watched them pack which made me feel better. What scared me was the sheer amount of tea ware I had squirreled away and how many boxes it took. This is all my tea ware, and these boxes are… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 17 – Moving Fatality

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Well this happened, the first fatality of my long distance move. Actually, I wasn’t even moving this tea pot yet, it was chilling on the tea table. The tea pot has been sitting on the tea table to dry before I was going to pack it into a box. I approached my tea table and the clay tea pot was broken, most of the pieces scattered on the table, with a few bits off the side of the tea table. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was more baffled about what the hell happened to break the tea pot as it obviously did not fall… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 16 – Moving Tea Woes

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Hi Tea Readers! I just dropped my husband off, who is heading to Seattle to start his new job. I’m lurking back here in Long Beach to finish up the move, and in 2 weeks I’ll be in Seattle. I was pretty busy the last few weeks going through things worth moving, and visiting friends and family. We went as far as driving up to Utah for a few days to see the Grandmother in Law. Black Tea Owl had a great time being on the road. One of the huge stressful things about me moving is my tea, specifically the… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 15 – Oolong Owl is moving to Seattle!

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First I go on vacation, then I get hella sick. However now another thing has come up – Tea Hating Husband got a new job, it is in Seattle, and he is starting in 2 weeks. That said, we are moving! So far it has been a huge scramble trying to organize things, as when you live somewhere for so long you acquire a lot of stuff. My husband hasn’t moved much so he’s got even more things *cough 6′ in laser discs cough*. Since we are on a short time frame, there’s lots going on here. The Tea Owls have been… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 14 – Sick Tea. What tea to drink while sick?

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I recently came back from Vancouver. Unfortunately, like every freaking time I go on vacation or leave town, I come home and get violently sick. This time around I thought I was going to break the curse as I didn’t get sick right away (plus I’m from Vancouver, I should be used to the germs) to suddenly get attacked a few days after, and me getting progressively worse and worse each day. Today feels like the worst, like my chest is going to birth a snot baby. I’m generally pretty active, I get my arbitrary 10k steps a day and weight lift 56… Continue reading, hoot!

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Hooty Tea Travels – Vancouver Tea February 2016

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I’ve been MIA over a week because I was in Vancouver, my home town. I was in town for the wedding of a long time friend so I was quite busy as a bridesmaid. mmm wedding cupcakes. I was able to set aside one day to hit Vancouver Chinatown and do some serious tea shopping with my US dollar. Hey, it is a good time to buy from Canada right now! First off, I met up with some Vancouver local Steepster friends, which was super awesome! Tea friends also run into the issue of enabling each other into buying more tea. I started at… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunday Tea Hoots 13 – Tea Table Flowers

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As an checkout impulse buy at the Asian Supermarket, I bought a narcissus bulb in a water dish. I’m pretty bad at plants, I’m alright with succulents as I can propagate them faster than I can kill them and I can keep a lucky bamboo alive, so I figure I could give this narcissus a go. I placed it behind my tea table for a more interesting background, whereas most of the background is my paper towel holder, blow torch, and tupperware containers. In a few days, it bloomed pretty white star shaped flowers with yellow middles! Interesting background indeed!… Continue reading, hoot!