TEA TIME CAME EARLY

Given what the weather is like, one fortifies oneself with a hot beverage ere going out. On a day off. When one must go out. Because otherwise one sits on one's duff all day and becomes a vegetable. A stagnant cabbage of a man. Exercise is good for the soul.
Sometimes the hot beverage is in multiples.


KUNG FU TEA

Smaller pots than you are used to, and more tea leaves. Shorter brews. Each steeping being slightly different than the one before.

The first steeping, roughly thirty seconds, is to open up and rinse the leaves. The second is approximately a minute, subsequent steepings a little longer each time. If five minutes for an English pot is optimum to extract the flavour, you can understand that shorter steepings and stronger brews will present a range.


If there is only one of you drinking the tea, you can see that with great ease you'll end up wired to the gills. Today I used slightly less tea leaf, and had only three steeps. And so, fully energized, I went out and braved the arctic wind and hairy savages on Nob Hill.
Leaving the turkey vulture to guard the apartment.

He abstains from stimulating beverages.
Except coffee. He loves coffee.
Coffee and a biscuit.

It's what all young birds wake up with in the morning.
He's bouncing off the walls by seven A.M.


普洱，水仙茶

Lunch was bami goreng with lapcheung, egg, and chopped greens. And lots of sambal. The strong tea (Pu Erh and Sui Sin) was not only fortification, but also a digestive aid.
All of this was followed by full Virginia flake in a Comoy.

It's not quite springlike weather outside.
Still Raynaud's phenomenonish.

TOBACCO INDEX


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