Korean Tea Exhibition

Just wanted to inform any interested readers that The Tea Institute at Penn State is hosting a five day long Korean Tea Exhibition. Some heavyweights of Korean tea will be presenting which include Brother Anthony of Taize, Steven Owyoung, and Hong Kyeoung-Hee all of which are authors of The Korean Way of Tea and/or Korean Tea Classics. The Penn State Tea Institute is the same group that brought Stephane of Teamaster's Blog and author Tea Parker to Penn State last year (see here).

The exhibition runs from April 3rd-8th and will offer many events that are free to the public. Those interested should contact Jason Cohen, the president of the institute, for details at jmc5840@psu.edu

Peace

New York Tea Gathering

While in New York this month one met up with the NYC tea group. All the heavy hitters were there- Toki from the Mandarin's Tea, Yumcha from The Tea Gallery, Brandon from Wrong Fu Cha, Evan from Pluck Tea, and Michael and Winnie.

We started with a wonderful three week old shincha, the first of the season for all of us- its freshness set the stage for the tea to come which included an interesting experimental slow roasted Oolong of Michael's, an qi packed High Fired Wuyi Old Bush ShuiXian from Toki and a rare raw puerh purchased in Singapore from that same "seasoned tea drinking pup".

Please follow this link to a wonderful write-up, pictures, and video of the detailed goings on at this gathering by Yumcha. It was great to met up and share tea and conversations with fellow teaists.

Peace