Category: Tea Journey

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2014 US and Canada Reddit Traveling Tea Box

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It’s the Reddit Traveling Tea Box! This one box of tea will be shipping around to other fellow reddit tea lovers in US and Canada! I’ve been loving these traveling tea boxes so much that I’ve been signing up for more over the last few weeks. The only thing I don’t like about them is they take time out of my regular Oolong Owl tea drinking time and the boxes can get pricey to ship. For the Reddit Traveling Tea Box I was the first stop! The schedule has 29 people on the list! I had the option of being last on the… Continue reading, hoot!

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Traveling Tea Box Fun with Oolong Owl

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Another travelling tea box made its way to the Oolong Owl and the Tea Owl’s possession! YUM! If you are interested in trying a whole bunch of new teas, I highly recommend hooking up with one of these Travelling Tea Boxes. A travelling tea box is a box full of tea that you can sample teas out of and then you add your teas into the box – usually of the same amount of tea you took out. Some of themed like unflavored, black teas or herbals only, others are exclusively set to mail within a country or two, while others… Continue reading, hoot!

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Oolong Owl’s Tea Stash – June 2014

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I’ve been procrastinating on posting pictures of my tea stash. My tea stash is crazy! The World Tea Expo didn’t help for the barrage of samples I got. I was keeping count on Steepster, using the cupboard feature. My cupboard says 235 teas, but I’ve been slow to updating when I get new teas, especially teas that aren’t in the Steepster system. My space for tea is in the living room. I have a bookcase for my tea and a bookcase for my teaware. My pu’er is kept separate in an empty dresser in my bedroom. I decided to count out all my… Continue reading, hoot!

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Oolong Owl’s World Tea Expo 2014 Haul

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Oolong Owl @ the World Tea Expo 2014! Read Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 I know you tea peeps have been waiting for this! OOLONG OWL’s World Tea Expo 2014 Haul! YEAH! Surrounded by teas and teaware for 3 days, there is no way one can resist buying stuff! Even though I’m just a blogger, I managed to purchase a few things – though many booths were not selling on site or are wholesale only. Modern Tea Girl – Nail polish! Modern Tea Girl has lots of goodies – icing mix and tea themed nail polish! The nail polish… Continue reading, hoot!

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World Tea Expo 2014 – Day 3 Experience as a Tea Blogger

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Oolong Owl at the World Tea Expo – Day 3! Read Day 1! | Read Day 2! World Tea Expo Day 3! It was a short day at the World Tea Expo, lasting till 4pm. The floor wasn’t as crowded, however there was a sense of hectic buying frenzy in the air – tea buyers making final decisions and swamping popular booths. People felt tired with 2 full days of standing yet still loaded on tea caffeine. I tied up some loose ends and spent most of the day seeing the special events at the World Tea Expo, which I found to be rewarding. I… Continue reading, hoot!

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World Tea Expo 2014 – Day 2 Experience as a Tea Blogger

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Oolong Owl Drinks the World Tea Expo – Day 2! Read Day 1! | Read Day 3! Day 2 of the World Tea Expo went by very fast for me. I arrived earlier than yesterday with the plan to visit the booths I missed as well as backtrack to some of yesterday’s booths to take photos. I also made a point to go to a few special events. World Tea Expo 2014 Oolong Owl Fun! Teas Sampled by Oolong Owl: 45. Almost half were a part of the North American Tea Championship tasting (more later in this post) Bathroom Visits: 5. It seems around… Continue reading, hoot!

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World Tea Expo 2014 – Day 1 Experience as a Tea Blogger

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  Oolong Owl Invades the World Tea Expo – Day 1 Read Day 2! | Read Day 3! Hi Tea peeps! The Tea Owls and I were at the World Tea Expo 2014 today! YAY! This is my first World Tea Expo and it was really spiffy to be in my city of Long Beach, California this year. I read on IHeartTeas blog to prepare for the tea expo. I made a list of teas booths I had to see, but walking into the showroom…. S O  M U C H  T E A Not the greatest pictures today as they are all… Continue reading, hoot!

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Smart Soak Tea Stain Dissolver from Mandala Tea – Oolong Owl review

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Got some stubborn tea stains? I heard much about Mandala Tea‘s Smart Soak Tea Stain Dissolver, so I had to try it out, so I purchased the 6oz bag with my last Mandala Tea order. I admit, I like my DIY tea cleaning method of simply rubbing baking soda on everything. Baking soda usually does the trick on most tea stains, and I found it especially effective upkeep on teaware to keep it looking pretty years later. Baking soda is also very cheap, easy to find in stores and usually in everyone’s pantry. However, there are some tea stains baking soda cannot… Continue reading, hoot!

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Oolong Owl will be at the World Tea Expo 2014!

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Good news everyone! Oolong Owl will be at the World Tea Expo 2014 in Long Beach California! The World Tea Expo is going on this year May 29th to 31st, 2014. The World Tea Expo is a trade show for all specialty tea needs – tea sellers and suppliers, tea room owners, and other merchants meet and show off new tea products! Also at the World Tea Expo is conferences, tastings, and workshops. In the World Tea Expo schedule, blending award winning teas, current tea trends, tea business selling topics, and specific tea type tastings. In addition, World Tea Expo will have the 2014 World Tea Awards… Continue reading, hoot!

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Oolong Owl Tea Tip #1 – Get organized by adding notes to your tea

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There is a point a tea drinker reaches when you have so much tea stashed and you lose track of specifics for each tea in your collection. As a tea drinker with a big stash, I’ve come across tea stash organization problems like: Steeping a cup of tea that was fantastic, especially after experimenting with the steep times or amounts, and forgot what I did when making the next cup. Finding a package of tea in the back of your cupboard and have no idea how old it is. The tea came without steeping instructions, no ingredient list, or isn’t in… Continue reading, hoot!