Tea Set Guides

Every culture that toasts has furniture for the ritual. Champagne gets flutes; sake gets the tokkuri and ochoko; and Chinese […]

Good loose-leaf tea rarely goes “bad” the way milk does. It goes flat — the aroma thins, the brightness dulls,

There’s a Chinese phrase for a whole category of modern teaware: lanren chaju — “lazy person’s tea gear”. It sounds

Most glazes are a promise: the cup you order is the cup you get. Kiln-change glazes — yaobian (窑变) in

The first time you see a full gongfu tea set laid out — fourteen pieces, each with its own slot