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25 shvat 5781  it has been about one year since i was last in seattle before covid hit. here is a very fun story about my first time at Seattle Best Tea. enjoy!   this was my second visit to a real tea shop (my first can be found here ) and it was another well known one ta boot.   my childhood best friend was visiting me on the west coast for the first time and i wanted to show him what a real me kinda day in seattle was (ie: eat dim sum, drink tea, smoke spliffs, go to the free Frye museum, and hang out in capital hill).   first stop was Harbor City for dim sum and needless to say, it was great. the food, the setting, the staff. all great. we just had the normal pot of green tea that comes with the meal but i tried to hold back because i wanted to save myself for our fancy tea tasting.    (side note: one of the main reasons i don’t like cities is because there is nowhere to pee. i like to drink tea. i like to walk around. i like to hydrate. this all become...

  14 kislev 5781   i am going to start a tea blog.    i don’t think i deserve to (it wont take you long to learn of my booming self esteem—- self esteem which only increases as the amount of daylight i get decreases. daylight that only comes in rain scattered sprinkles this time of the year in the pacific northwest).    i am not a tea expert. i do not know Chinese. i am not rich and i cannot afford high end and rare teas.    what i am is someone who loves tea. that is one reason i am writing this. i am also a nerd. i am a plant nerd  and  i am a word nerd. i have a handful of story projects im working on but those juices just aren’t flowing right now and i really miss writing. i need something more to do in the winter than read, drink  tea, and mope. i want to use this blog to help me learn form the teas i drink. yes, i am utilitarian to a fault sometimes, but i swear i am a sappy romantic who watches lots of romcoms and likes ...