There is a man in Taiwan I think about often. His name is Li Lao Shi — Teacher Li. He is in his seventies now. He is an acupuncturist, a fortune teller, and a feng shui master, all packed into o…

I’ll never forget the time I went back to Taiwan and all of my tea friends were crazy for cold brew. This was not what I expected. Taiwan has one of the deepest hot tea cultures in the world &md…

Back when I was a noob, straight off the farm — fresh to Taiwan and clueless about where to find good tea — I wandered into a very well-marketed shop called Ten Ren. After chatting with th…

Someone asked me at a recent tea tasting: "How did you know you were ready to open the Teahouse?" Here's the honest answer. I was living in Taiwan. Tea sales were growing — more customers, more…

There's a category of tea I call "relationship tea." You can't find it on a shelf. You can't order it online. And if you walk into a shop and try to buy it with money alone, you'll walk out empty-hand…