Jesse Appell is a Fulbright scholar, bilingual comedian and tea guy who has found that the best conversations happen over tea with interesting people.
By sharing tea from his own tea shop with guests of diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds, Teatime With Jesse lets you be a fly on the wall of Jesse's Teahouse when interesting friends come by to visit!
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Jesse Appell is a Fulbright scholar, bilingual comedian and tea guy who has found that the best conversations happen over tea with interesting people.
By sharing tea from his own tea shop with guests of diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds, Teatime With Jesse lets you be a fly on the wall of Jesse's Teahouse when interesting friends come by to visit!
Quality tea is just good tea with West China Tea's So-Han Fan
Teatime With Jesse
50 minutes
1 year ago
Quality tea is just good tea with West China Tea's So-Han Fan
This week, we have a special audio-only podcast, sourced from a Livestream I had with West China Tea's So-Han Fan.
So-Han owns a teahouse in Austin, Texas, so we're constantly talking about the tea and tea business. In this episode, we delve into the behind-the-scenes of running a tea company, working with tea farmers, knowing the language of the manufacturers, and drinking quality tea. The last of which, has more to do with understanding the experience of tea making and drinking tea than it has to do with specific parameters. And insect poop tea. We talk about that too.
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2:48 Smoke and roasted teas
7:06 Trying for the sake of technique
18:21 Stereotypes against Chinese businesses
20:48 Colorism and Perceptions of the Asian Community
22:10 Suspicion and misinformation regarding manufacturing in China
23:05 Assessing food quality of the loose-leaf tea at West China Teahouse
25:21 Tea manufacturing vs. Tea curation
25:35 Calling in the experts
32:52 Comedy and tea
36:08 The age of tea
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Teatime With Jesse
Jesse Appell is a Fulbright scholar, bilingual comedian and tea guy who has found that the best conversations happen over tea with interesting people.
By sharing tea from his own tea shop with guests of diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds, Teatime With Jesse lets you be a fly on the wall of Jesse's Teahouse when interesting friends come by to visit!
