Must-sip in San Jose?

May be in San Jose for a conference next month. Hoping to visit Chinese
Clay Art, even if their web offerings are a bit fancy for my taste. Any
other noteworthy purveyors of tea or teaware thereabouts?

Thanks-

DM

Yo, DogMa:
If you can get over to Fremont (maybe 20 miles away-ish), 101
Plantations on Warm Springs Blvd Oriental Shopping Center (my name for
it), will serve you up a gong-fu style tea service that is great. They
have a handfull of pu-erh that is very very good, and their Jasmine
Pearls positively rock. They also had some very good high-mountain
oolongs from Taiwan and China. The website is 101tea.com, and they
have good driving maps, if you will be driving. I know this is not
actually in San Jose, but it is as close as I can get to helping you.
Hope you can make it out to them, they are all friendly and have very
good teas.
Sincerely, Teajunkie

Chinese Clay Art - you can buy very inexpensive good quality raw yixing clay
and good set of chahu making tools there as I did. Po Zhou is a very warm
guy, just let him know you're coming ahead of the time - they are not open
every day...
Do not forget to visit Fong's place (Imperial Tea Palace) in SF.
And of course if you decide to ski and(or) gamble - we will have the best
tea between Sierras and Rockies at my place in Reno!

Sasha.

"DogMa" <DogMa_I@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> May be in San Jose for a conference next month. Hoping to visit Chinese
> Clay Art, even if their web offerings are a bit fancy for my taste. Any
> other noteworthy purveyors of tea or teaware thereabouts?
>
> Thanks-
>
> DM