Lew Perin

Tea, Chinese, China, and the Babelcarp app occupy me here. All else at @wrenpile. I’m also on Mastodon: email: [email protected]

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

I’ve withdrawn from social media, for now at least. But if you want to
contact me, my email address is in my profile.

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@futurebird @LeafyEricScott You might look for this: https://t.co/vca8XExXLk

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

If you brew multiple steeps of a tea, you need to think about temperature control as the leaves take up water. And not all teas are alike.

I have evidence: https://t.co/LKeS3K7iuN

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@TeaMastersBlog @white2tea Feiyang wasn’t asking *farmers* to wait 2 years. He put the onus on factories.

I don’t endorse everything he says, but he put his money where his mouth is.

(I may have missed something here—I think @white2tea deleted a tweet before I could see it.)

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

As a rule I don’t blog or tweet these days, so here goes with a post on what might or might not be happening in the puer industry:🙃

https://t.co/fJeioiSBAc

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@white2tea Thanks a lot!

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@white2tea It’s this, isn’t it? https://t.co/WtAc0ViaeU

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@white2tea Hanzi for this, please?

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

I’m briefly emerging from Twitter retirement to tell you my friend Laszlo at @teacup_media is starting up his own Tea History Podcast: https://t.co/AN02uQgZ5n

I’m sure it’ll be great, just like the now decade-old China History Podcast.

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@chenchenzh @HainanAirlines Shenzenmele?

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@tea_author Nope.

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

They don’t exactly say this tea is Darjeeling, so I guess it isn’t mislabeled, and it sure is inexpensive.

Still, I wonder where this Darjelling place is.🙃

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@HackingChinese Thanks, that’s a *great* Wikipedia page!

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

My old tea friend who’s visiting southern Yunnan just sent me a short video of a local woman roasting kaocha over an open fire: https://t.co/s4ksjmn2nN

But she’s using a Japanese kyusu!

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@HackingChinese Leaving aside the phonetic accuracy of the syllables used, there’s a number of character choices available for each syllable.

In most cases, they seem to choose a flattering one. That’s what intrigues me.

[John Horstman @sinobug]

GROWING ‘PANES’ - Camellia Shield Bugs or Tea Seed Bugs (Poecilocoris latus, Scutelleridae)
(nymph (top) and adult)
https://t.co/lLs7z2VCPc
#insect #China #Yunnan #entomology #Hemiptera #bug

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

Tea is where you find it: https://t.co/SSLf5UFmLg

[Lew Perin @babelcarp]

@LeafyEricScott Looking good!