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Become Internet Famous Post a picture of yourself enjoying a cup of tea prefereably, Good Life Tea and use the hashtag #GoodLifeTea on your instagram. We will find it and repost it on our Instagram and maybe on our FB page too. Visit our Instagram account to see what others are posting. Win a Prize We will randomly choose 3 winners for a $15 Gift Certificate on Saturday 5/28/16 at 5 PM EST.  It can be used in-store or online. Make sure we see your smile and your cup of tea. Put something interesting in the caption too and don't forget...

Call it popped rice tea. If America is symbolized by baseball and apple pie, then Japan's symbols are rice and tea. Genmaicha is just that.  It's green tea blended with roasted and popped white rice. This blended tea creates a nice balance of the vegetal flavors of the green tea with the nutty, somewhat sweet flavor of the rice.  The roasted rice sometimes pops, not unlike popcorn, leading to the nickname "popped rice tea". Genmaicha is also called "poor man's tea".  Rice was added to green tea as a filler, to make the very expensive tea last longer.  It also added a...

The Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival  Every spring all across Japan, as the weather gets warmer, there is great anticipation for the blooming of the Cherry Blossoms which marks the passing of winter and the arrival of spring.  The anticipation is just like when you were in school and counted down the days to summer vacation or counted the days to Christmas. You just couldn't wait for it happen.   When the trees blossom, the party begins. All over Japan people flock to parks to sit under the trees and take in spring and the joy of winter passing.Having lived in Japan as a...

Our best selling one-person tea making system In our last blog post, we discussed the importance of water in making tea. In the video below, we demonstrate our best selling one-person tea making system.  The secret sauce is the stainless steel infuser basket. One important feature not mentioned in our video is the ability to monitor the tea steeping process. Because the tea mug is made of heat resistant, Pyrex glass, you can watch the water turn into tea. This allows you to remove the infuser at the perfect moment when your tea is done. This is really useful when making green...