Over the past decade or so, matcha has shifted from a novel trend to a mainstay on every cafe and teahouse menu in the West. But in Asia, matcha h...

As many of us know, tea is a long established mainstay in Chinese culture. History has revealed that this “elixir” was being consumed by the people...

The term elixir elusively suggests some kind of mystical formula, somewhere between medicine and mmm…. Though the loosely defined term is open fo...