Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea Retail

  • A quick infusion

    I’ve been sitting in a tea shop for 6 hours. My office is about an hour south of the CBD, so I tend to meet people in tea shops. Today, and most of tomorrow, I’ll be here. Here I am, hard at work. Note the enormous quantities of tea behind me. So far I have…

  • She Blows Hot and Cold*

    I’m pretty observant. For a male, that is. Also, I like to think I can consider all sides to an issue, before I decide who is sweetly innocent and who needs to be tased. So, let’s talk about Princes. Even today, it’s permissible for a little girl, growing up in the Western world, to dream of marrying…

  • Now is the Shoulder Season of our Discontent

    Readers of my blog of late have found it turned mostly into a tea travelogue. Not because I’ve changed focus, but because I tend to write about what I’m thinking of, and I think about my next decent cup of tea a lot. I have completely covered my efforts to source good loose leaf tea…

  • The beginning of the end

    I’ve been prolific this week. There’s been so much to talk about as I have absorbed Thailand like a great big sponge. I’ll be writing two other posts, with pictures aplenty. But here’s how it ends. Twenty six hours from departure, and I’ve still not found a basic teapot or any significant quantities of Thai tea. Or much of any…

  • In Which One Laughs at the Fickle Finger of Fate

    I returned to the little shop where I’d found the Raming Organic Jasmine tea. If you haven’t read about that, then you’ve sadly missed out on the blockbuster tea buying adventure story of the decade and you need to start about six blog entries back. I decided to buy another couple of boxes and try…

  • The Land of Plenty

    Once more hurling ourselves into the unknown in search of tea, it’s time for Tesco/Lotus a supermarket joint venture between Tesco of the UK and Lotus of Thailand. It’s large! The only other Tesco I’ve been is in in Pitsea, Essex and this would give that one a run for its money. Now, the whole…

  • Dancing the cha-cha

    Whilst on this sojourn; I have probably decided to blog more than my “once a week”, twice if I feel like it” usual regime. If limited connectivity allows me to. That’s because I hope I have new things to say, and like all my blog entries; they have a connection to tea. Luckily, tea in…

  • Carry On Up The Spout

    Dear Mount Barker Council This is a difficult letter for me to write. Mainly because of etiquette or a sense of fairness. You see, this is an open letter. As well as writing it to you, I am publishing it on my blog “The Devotea’s Tea Spouts” at teatra.de , possibly the world’s most influential…

  • Genesis of a rant: What set me off

    My last post (Café Quackery)  was, to put it mildly, unkind to certain café operators. In fact, I treated them with disrespect and contempt – mainly as they treated me in the same vein, by serving me tea bags, or attempting to. Several of my readers have contacted me and asked if the post was…

  • Café Quackery: The Great Tea Bag Rip-Off

    Do you own a cafe/snack bar/restaurant  or the like? And do you have an espresso machine? If so, here’s a question to which there are only only two ways of answering: When it comes to tea in your establishment, which one of these is true? (a) I provide loose leaf tea for my customers. (b)…