“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
-Okakura Kakuzo
The Book of Tea
Here are a few tea sources, including some frequent places we’ve tried and exchanged with each other:
Robert’s Coffee
Here are a few places to have tea, including some that offer a formal tea service:
Strindberg
The Rose Garden Tea Room and Café
“The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming, who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrystanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake.
‘Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus.”