...into green oolongs)...but when I return, I will have whatever their feature coffee is AND I would like to try something “espresso.” Oooooh, I will be wired for the week...I will plan to get a lot done that week!...

I drink fine, expensive, “gung fu” grade oolongs.....with sugar and lemon (okay, tecnically fresh squeezed key lime juice, but by Chinese standards adding anything to fine tea of that grade is tantamount to...

favorite :) Also, really good loose-leaf tea. I make it at home, but I have lots of tins of it- everything from Jasmine pearl oolong to some rich Yunnan black tea. I rarely buy tea outside of my house (i will have on occasion an...

' market or Rainbow Grocery) 3. Baochong Oolong tea (Teance) 4. poached lobster in carrot broth and seared foie gras (La Folie) 5. grits, fried oysters, biscuits (Brenda’s) 6. escarole, dandelion greens, Erbette chard, pimentos...

to find even in good zoos. It would be wonderful if that culinary heritage (as well as biodiversity) could be simultaneously preserved. And of course there is the beloved scarlet robe, one of the rarest oolongs and one of the...

'll serve you fine tea, be it Chinese green, Formosa oolong, or the first flush black tea from the local plantation, hot or iced, however you like it. For a little something different, we’ll visit my Filipino in-laws, and...

here), great meat, you cook it on gas grills, great kimchee, excellent green salad (not traditional, but I like it) comes with BBQ items. Ruen Pair in Hollywood Hugo’s (breakfast): I love the monkey picked oolong. I come for...

My friend owns a tea shop here in San Francisco and for his fine white oolong and other green teas, he insists that you NEVER use boiling water, in fact many degrees under boiling in order to not kill the delicate taste. Also, he...