Despite what you may have heard to the contrary, Pu'Er (aka Pu-Erh, although the H is superfluous [in Pinyin it is just Er so I don't know who added it] and adds no information regarding pronunciation) is not pronounced Poo-Air, but rather Poo-Ar (like the letter R) in Chinese ( Read more... )

I joined 750 Words, because I haven't been writing private journal entries for a year or two now and it's good for my brain for me to do so. It emails me reminders every day (the site, not my brain).

Adam and I visited The Chinese Tea Shop on Columbia and Pender on Saturday afternoon. It was super awesome. I learned how to make Gongfu Cha, tasted ( Read more... )

White people problems ( Read more... )

So, I like green tea. When I was in China, I drank a lot of it. And I go to the same coffee shop (Blenz) in the library every day to have lunch. I used to get coffee, but now that I have espresso in the morning (so delicious, straight from Adam's espresso machine), I'd get too squirrelly if I also had a coffee at lunch. So I've been trying a lot of ( Read more... )

Torchwood is pretty awful. I watched the first two episodes. Poorly written, acted, and executed ( Read more... )

I saw LEVIATHANS, Ian Wyatt, Jack Duckworth's latest thing (can't remember what it's called), and Shearing Pinx at the Lamplighter last night. The whiskey I had along with it is catching up with me this morning (that and my scant 3.5 hours of sleep), but it was super-fun. Shearing Pinx are awesome -- a mix so many different good sounds. Like a ( Read more... )

Today was quite fortuitous. I had the breakfast special at Dottie's -- a frittata with feta cheese, spinach, grape tomatoes, eggplant, and scallions. SO YUMMY. I couldn't finish my home fries or toast, it was so filling. Then espresso at Blue Bottle, and off to Berkeley ( Read more... )

I bought some really great jasmine tea (moli xiang zhu hua cha, rolled into little pearl-sized balls) when I was in Hong Kong at a shop called Fook Ming Tong. They're the kind of tealeaves you can brew again and again, extra jasmine-infused (the lady at the store said they're good for about seven pots). It was about $30-50 for 300 grams, if I ( Read more... )