Thomas Shu Sings Hakka Tea Song!

Thomas Shu Teaches Taiwan Hakka Tea Song!

I first encountered Thomas’ penchant and talent for singing these Taiwanese Hakka tea songs at the 2010 World Tea Expo while waiting in the Las Vegas Hilton lobby with a group of individuals coming down from the pool where an expo related networking event was being held.

If you search for Tea Hakka on YouTube you’re sure to find other videos of Thomas singing!

Want to win $100 in great tea merchandise? Share your tea moment with us and win great prizes this holiday season, including the awesome Libre Tea glass that lets you enjoy the benefits of loose leaf tea on the go, and a selection of teas from Adiago Teas, Harney & Sons, Infusions of Tea, Kokomo Tea and Tavalon!

There’s two ways to enter and you can do either or both:

Share a tea moment with us by video.  Watch our contest announcement on YouTube and then record your own tea moment and upload it to YouTube. Link it as a response to our announcement and be sure to include our Web site, “www.tea-guy.com” in the description of your video.  To make our lives easier, shoot us a quick e-mail with your real name, YouTube name and e-mail address so we can contact you if you win.

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In today’s first note, I wanted to share a fantastic post I found on Buddhism and Tea over at Hong Tea Dao! It’s amazingly insightful with lots of tasty delicious knowledge!

Stash Teas’ annual Guide To Bead And Breakfast Inns is around again this year. Inns participating in the program provide one night’s stay free when you book at least one night.

Botanical Bakery is offering some wonderful looking Fennel Pollen tea cookies inspired by the unfortunate passing of the owner’s father.

My friends over at The Village Tea Company are opening their first brick and mortar location! You should totally head out and support them if you’re in Dallas area!

If you buy gas for your favorite costly sipper or guzzler… and I’m sure most of us do… then drop by your local BP station and support their new private label bottled Ready to Drink (RTD) tea line! World Tea News has the scoop!

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Tea-Guy Redesign

I’ve been looking forward to bringing you a completely new layout and design here at Tea-Guy complete with new branding and a much improved design flow. I am in talks with a number of designers and design-firms to get this dream to become a reality by the end of August or September.

I think you’ll like what we’re cooking up so we can bring you even better content and reviews while improving your overall experience.

Brand Pages

One of my earliest noted new features is absent from the site. Brand Pages were announced back in March and I continue to work on bringing this unique feature your way. I’ve decided to hold off on the introduction of Brand Pages until after the redesign of the site. Not only will it provide me with a clean slate with which to work the new content into the site… but I can ensure the Brand Pages represent the brands in the best light possible.

The Project

I’ve grown from a single project to multiple projects. That list includes the complete redesign of Tea-Guy.com. I continue to work toward the eventual opening of my own tea house. This would be the culmination of so much effort and energy. I’ve pushed back the opening of the tea house for at least a couple of years until the economy improves enough to warrant opening a new retail food business. I am considering online tea sales.

Another project is a bit more secretive. All I will say is that it involves your web browser, the iPhone and the iPod Touch. I’ll try and lay out more details some time in the future.

These updates are why I’ve missed a lot of posts recently. Well, and some health and car troubles. It’s a funny but continually exciting world to be in right now!

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• Maxx Performance of Chester, N.Y has found a way to make green tea more palatable for bakers and chefs. WTN has the scoop!
• Bunn-O-Matic has recalled a tea and coffee maker due to concerns about people burning themselves. The model has been on the market since 2004. The recall hotline at Bunn-O-Matic is (800) 741-3405.
• Hain Celestial has been named the UK’s #1 eco friendly food & beverage company. WTN has more.
• This one’s pretty neat! Great Lakes Tea & Spice has opened a kiosk at the West Bloomfield Hospital in Detroit! WTN has a nice write-up on it.
• A contest is on for tea enthusiasts of a yuonger persuasion to write an essay about tea. The contest is being co-sponsored by Teas-Etc and Laura Schaeffer, the author of the book Tea Shop Girls, which I’ll review soon!
• The Mayo Clinic says that tea’s EGCG compounds have shown to help Leukemia patients!
• Apparently green tea extracts and EGCG compounds are being made into a vaginal gel which may help to prevent the spread of AIDS.

That’s it for this week! I’ll see you tomorrow for my review of Adagio’s Golden Spring.

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