#wulong tea

[tea-kittenz]

Rainy afternoon with sweet rock tea.

Bairuixiang, Wuyishan, China. Harvested in spring, 2021.

Lazy Cat Tea.

[paradox-time]

Perfect Tea weather today!

A beautiful late summer storm rages this afternoon, perfect for some wonderfully floral Wulong tea :D

My absolute favorite purchase of the year, this beautiful koi gongfu tea set. I don't have a tea tray just yet so I'm using a small plate, the flow of the tea from the spout is awful and it dribbles everywhere, but I'm emotionally attached to my only little tea set. That an my goodwill kettle make for quite the budget friendly little set up.

Love and kisses to every tea enjoyer <3

[solshop]

Slimming Tea for weight loss and digestive care - Solshop

Buy the best slimming tea for weight loss in India online from Solshop. Our Willowy Wulong herbal tea is a mixture of Oolong tea and other digestive herbs.

[oneshortdamnfuse]

Normalize oolong tea in cafes! Tummy hurt? Drink oolong tea! Acid reflux? Drink oolong tea! Want a tea that tastes good? Drink oolong tea! Like! I am tired of her not getting the attention she deserves.

[evadingreallife]

My loot!

[andelkacroatia]

[count-alucard-tepes]

Headcanons for my Kengan Ashura/Omega hotties😍 - What they're watching on TV and the snacks they're eating📺

Raian Kure👹: true crime documentaries, he snacks on a lot of sugar even though he shouldn't

Kanoh Agito😁: the history channel, he's eating a whole family size cheesecake...he needs the calories

Kaolan Wongsawat🥊: kitchen nightmares, thai fried bananas and mango sticky rice

Kiryu Setsuna🥰: CCTV footage of Ohma🤣 JF, he watches the bachelor with his step sisters and snacks on pizza

Adam Dudley😬: American football, he snacks on all the junk food he can find at the import store

Hatsumi Sen😍: k dramas, he has beers

Sekibayashi Jun🤼‍♂️: wrestling, popcorn and beer

Hassad❤���‍🩹: Bollywood dramas, hummus and falafel

Himuro Ryo🤍: the amazing race, cup ramen

Inaba Ryo🖤: cartoons, whipped cream sandwiches

Kiozan Takeru🤼‍♂️: wrestling, doesn’t snack so he’d have some tea

Muteba Gizenga🪖: listens to music, he usually just drinks wine

Nikaido Ren🤩: storage wars, he’s a healthy snacker so peanut butter and apples

Sawada Keizaburo💅: say yes to the dress, he snacks on cold cuts

Yoroizuka Saw Paing😜: American ninja warrior, he likes to snack on jaggery

Retsudo Katahara🕵️: bar rescue, he snacks on sushi being the bougie bitch he is

Takamaya Minoru😷: formula 1: drive to survive, sour cream and onion crisps

Long Min🥷: shark tank, egg salad sandwiches

Misasa😎 : special forces, he eats a lot so usually he gets bento boxes as snacks

Takeshi Wakatsuki 💪: strongman YouTube videos, whipped cream in a can

Narushima Joji 🍺: mukbangs, all the beer he can find

Shen Wulong 🔌: cat videos, lots of alcohol

Xia Yan🪱: wildlife documentaries, cup ramen

King Rama XIII👑: anything with beautiful women, fruits from his palace gardens

[yellowelectroslime]

Hi! Can I ask for headcanons of Shen Wulong having crush into someone? Thank you in advance ✨

sorry i don’t know much abt shen

when u point out that u think he likes u he would immediately go “omg ur right, yan likes u a lot”

he’s so goofy like that its so funny

honestly i feel like he would go silent when he’s around u tho

but he would nod a lot to whatever u have to say

just pretend that u didn’t see him blush whenever u smile

otherwise u would turn around and LEAVE (out of embarrassment lol)

i think yan would spill the tea first tho

cuz shen won’t talk about nothing

[sexilene]

tea party!!! 🍵🌸

🍵 The Ruthless Countess Dorothea Penhaligon's

🍵 Wulong Cha Nishane

🍵 Blue Tea The Merchant of Venice

🍵 Marc Jacobs Tropical Splash Hibiscus

🍵 Comme des Garcons Comme des Garcons Series 1 Leaves: Tea

🍵 Chloé Hibiscus Abelmoschus

🍵 Le Couvent Maison de Parfum Aqua Amantia

🍵 Bvlgari Omnia Coral

🍵 Orientica Premium Fleur de Orientica

🍵 Demeter Fragrance Hibiscus Tea

🍵 Aqua Allegoria Teazzurra Guerlain

🍵 Russian Tea Masque Milano

🍵 Moschino Funny! Moschino

[rannadylin]

Today's tea: Anxi Wulong Low Fire, a nice, mild green oolong from Adagio's Masters Tea branch.

Today's knit: Now that the socks are done I've resumed work on the Kinross Avenue Wrap. It's now several repeats longer than the last time I took a pic, although I'm not sure you can tell in its amorphous pre-blocking state...I have also counted out the beads I need for the repeats in the decrease section at the end to make sure I don't keep going in the center section for too long and use them all up, and that end is getting pretty close!

[lilianhuas]

Whilst waiting in line at a coffee shop today I this random idea of some alternative universe scenario where Shen Wei & Pei Su (Fei Du) have coffee (WuLong tea for Shen Wei obvs) and they discuss their husbands and how life is treating them, maybe Fei Du can show Shen Wei to play on his PSP (playstation portable)… now that would a quite the conversion to observe.

[jiaolong-rp]

Zixiao Zitian: -trying to be encouraging to Gu Helong- Don't worry! There's a great dragon in everyone! Laopo Fu: -trying to be a gremlin- Not me! =3 Wulong Shu: There could be, if you weren't such a bitch about it! Dalong Shu: -chokes on his tea-

[cattatonically]

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto

Synopsis

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?

Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).

But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.

Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.

My Thoughts

This book was one surprise after another. Just when I thought I had some things figured out, I was thrown for another loop all over again. And it’s all Vera’s fault.

Vera is a very stubborn, bossy woman. I really did not like her at the beginning. She was very pushy, and could not admit when she was wrong. But honestly, I couldn’t imagine Vera any other way. She snuck up on me, and won me over. Because despite her extreme pushy, brazen attitude is a woman who truly cares way too much about the people in her life.

The full cast of characters was fascinating. Their tenuous connections to each other, and the murder of Marshall Chen, were a thrill to unravel. And the more we learn about each character, the more apparent it is that they really do need each other. And the relationships they build with each other – or rebuild, in a couple of cases – really go to show just how strong people can become in the face of adversity and tragedy.

While I walked into this book wanting a fun murder mystery, I walked out of it with a strange little found family, with Vera being the glue holding them all together. And while solving the murder became a back-burner plot line for me, the way Vera solves it in the final reveal truly flabbergasted me. It was staring me in the face, and I didn’t see it.

Vera Wong is not the kind of woman I would get along with. But she was the kind of woman that her found family needed. And for that, I can’t help but love her, too.

[trickstertea]

My Favorite Teas 2024

I've been into a tea hobby for a year now! I'm not all that knowledgeable by any means and I'm very loose with my methods, and I'm really bad at remembering and describing taste, so don't listen to me. But here's my personal favorite loose leaf teas so far. All of these were tried with gaiwan-style brewing.

Yu Lu Yan Cha from Verdant Tea Just bought another 150 grams of this tea last night. This tea comes out a gorgeous red color and tastes just as rich. Honestly, since it was out of stock for a minute I haven't drank it in a while, and can't remember exactly what it tastes like — just that it's the best tea I've ever tasted. It's deep and a little dark. My favorite over all.

Keemun Osmanthus Qimen Black Tea from China Tea Spirit

I'm biased here because this was the first Chinese loose leaf tea I bought. I also didn't have the knowledge at the time to know that it's a bit pricey, but even now I think you can taste the quality. It's very sweet and a little floral, but also vegetal and dark. Smells wonderful.

China Tea Spirit is a vendor I see very rarely mentioned, but I had a good experience with them. They have a fantastic and quality teaware selection too.

Qing Xiang Wulong Revival from Verdant Tea

This tea tastes like moss, in the best way possible. Moss with a bit mineral-ness. What can I say, that's my favorite kind of taste.

Bainian Laoshu Hong Cha from Tangpin Tea

I love teaware, so a habit I've developed is buying random tea from whatever vendors I buy teaware from, since they tend to go hand-in-hand. That's how I discovered this tea. It's not mind-blowing but is just so nice for a casual drink. It's sweet and malty, and cheap.

Tangpin Tea is another vendor I don't see mentioned often but they're good. From what I remember, the shipping was surprisingly fast. Also have a MASSIVE teaware selection. Biggest downside is their site seems to be outdated and has little information, so I've chosen to not order from them during this tariff mess.

AOH Hibernian Blend from Harney & Sons

Yes, here's a Harney and Sons tea, and yes, I brewed it gaiwan style. It wouldn't be my first recommendation, as I've quickly discovered the woes of using too much chopped-up tea in a gaiwan [spoiler alert, it'll put hair on your chest], but — hell, when it goes right, it's tasty. Cheap and casual. Nice and red. Just be sparing with the amount you use in a brew, unless you're aiming to cover it all up with milk and sugar.

How lovely it's been to have tea by my side this year. Not to be dramatic, but tea seriously had a major hand in pulling me out of deep depression and into recovery. Last February, feeling so lost from myself and restless and agitated, spurred by the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon [I adore dragons...] I started spending my mornings with my tea, my gaiwan, and my journal, putting on my favorite Tuvan music, mindfully writing out my tasting experience and my wandering thoughts in-between. Nowadays I'm not so mindful, drinking tea casually alongside working on my computer, but tea is still a constant companion, something I look forward to each morning. And no hate, but seriously cutting down coffee, where I was drinking at least 2 large cups a day, has majorly improved my health both mental and physical — I still crave it often, and still have a cup here and there on my most tiring days, but my chest literally hurts just thinking about it! It wasn't good for me.

Looking forward, I've got my first pu-ehr samples coming in soon. I'm excited — I really hope I like it. I love the idea of something that can sit in the cabinet and improve with age. Though, I've kinda burnt myself out on both woody and smokey teas, and that maybe doesn't bode well, haha. We'll see. At the end of the day I can force myself to drink pretty much anything if I have to, unless I start throwing up, see below... Meanwhile, although when I first started this journey I figured green teas wouldn't really be for me, I've been craving them lately. You know when your body just starts strongly craving something green and healthy? It's like that. I enjoy the vegetal taste more than I ever thought I would. The biggest downside of green tea is a shorter shelf life, and of course you can only get your hands on 2024 green teas at the moment, but I can look past a little staleness.

Unfortunately, looking into the future with tea as someone in the US carries the burden of current politics...

Disclaimer, I am not well-versed in economics or politics. Of course Trump's on-and-off tariff threats are a concern for all US Chinese tea drinkers. When discussions of this started springing up in r/tea in December, there were plenty assuring that fears were exaggerated and buying up tea in bulk was an overreaction, and I listened to them. I regret that now. This situation is changing by the day, to much confusion, but at the moment the 'de minimis' exception is back, so, as I understand it, there won't be extra charges from customs for personal orders under $800. This is of course subject to change without warning under this volatile administration. I don't want to fearmonger either, but now may be the best time to stock on tea, especially if you wish to get it shipped straight from China. Tea with a long shelf life may be the best consideration; and, maybe this is the time to get into non-Chinese teas. In the longterm I would guess that the price of tea will go up quite a bit even from US shippers as they have to compensate for these oncoming tariffs.

BONUS my disliked teas:

DISCLAIMER: again, I really barely know what the hell I'm talking about. I may have gotten bad batches, or brewed improperly, or just have a really odd sense of taste [I do!]. So these are just, very much, I personal experiences, and I don't intend for this reflect poorly on the vendors or even the tea itself. That being said:

Victorian London Fog by Harney & Sons

This is a highly recommended tea. An online friend recommended it. I've seen oodles of praise for it everywhere.

I tried it several times, felt like it was way too strong and perfumey every time, tried it with milk, tried it without, tried it super light and it still tasted overbrewed — and then it made me throw up. So yeah, that one's been banished to the back of the cabinet. I'm not so willing to try again. But surely it must just be me, everyone else seems to love it. Hopefully I'll come across someone to gift it to some day.

Laoshan Bilochun Green Tea from Verdant Tea

I'm drinking the last of this as I type. The thing about this tea is that it smells absolutely incredible. Just amazing. It has this rich nutty and vegetal smell that's so good it's hard to describe. It's divine. I would almost keep buying this tea for the brewed smell alone.

However, to me, it tastes like medicine. The bitterness overtakes any flavor that the wonderful smell indicates, and I have to force myself to keep drinking it. Shame. But if you like very green green teas, you might like it.

Wood Dragon from In Pursuit of Tea

This might be a 'what did you expect?' situation. This tea is just too woody for me. It has literal twigs in it — and it's so woody, that it's bland for me on all other fronts. Just wood soup. I kinda got burnt out on 'woody' forest-floor-tasting teas this year so that doesn't help.

[pagesandpothos]

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Official Summary:

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet). But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer. Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.

My Thoughts:

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is a really fun mystery but its characters are what makes it great.

Vera made me laugh so many times. I cried a little over her too. I grew so fond of her so quickly that my only complaint about the whole book was that I wished we'd gotten a little more focus on her. I liked the supporting characters too and genuinely adored watching them grow thanks to Vera's influence. Most of all, I loved the found family that they formed.

This was so funny and heartwarming. I loved reading this and am very happy that there's a sequel coming soon. I need more of these characters!

My Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 (4.75/5 stars).

Tropes/Tags:  mystery, cozy mystery, found family

Links: Storygraph | GoodReads | JesseQSutantoauthor.com

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