China has tea at 30 degree latitude – a line drawn along Yangtze – having most of those delicate green fragrant teas like 西湖龙井 but in India we have tea at 23 degree latitude of Assam and Darjeeling – mostly strong black teas needing sugar to go down the throat – and we at Doke…
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When I went to China in October 2004 I was deaf, dumb and illiterate so I had to find a teacher and finally I got one and pretty quickly and a right one – Xu Jie or Jane as she has a English name too – and right one because she is a teacher for…
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Today is a very special day when I am yielding to the wishes of my son, Vivek, who has been pestering me to write my own story which is really nothing much except a transition from sugar to tea.
Some people come in your life purely by destiny and Rose is one. It was just few days before tsunami that we met in Chiba and were to visit Mt. Fuji on the diaster day when some miscommunication made me change my plan and I arrived Hangzhou one day too earlier to get a call…
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