Subject: Tea

• $13 at Kim Son on Jefferson

  November 2, 2007

• Flavors of Yogurt Sets Up Shop Near the Galleria

  June 12, 2008

• $7 at Orient Cafe in Missouri City

  July 29, 2008

• A World Tour of Honey

  September 3, 2008

• Spiritualized at ACL Fest

  September 27, 2008

• Hot Plate

  October 21, 1999

• Best Iced Tea

  Kaldi Cafe

  September 21, 2000

• Navigational Charts

  Speaking off the toque: Michael Cordúa

  December 7, 2000

• Fat City

  Vegetarian soul food? Naturally Yours serves up "buffalo things" and smothered steaklet

  January 17, 2002

• Sneeze Green Tea

  It's mid-afternoon.  You had a heavy lunch.  The work day is sliding by like thick molasses in winter.  You're dragging ass, big time.  So you decide to pop open a cold, refreshing can of iced organic green tea to rescuscitate yourself from the afternoon doldrums. And if you're anything like this guy, you get a special surprise in your green tea that really perks up your afternoon. Warning: The image below is not for the faint of heart.

  December 10, 2008

• Update: Snot What You Thought

  After highlighting a local man's discovery of what appeared to be a giant loogie in his can of green tea, the tea company has responded with an apology and an explanation. According to Steaz co-founder Eric Schnell, who personally responded to the complaint, the gruesome substance was actually undissolved lemon juice concentrate and it marks the first time in six years that this problem has occurred.  As a result, they are recalling the 1% of product that was a

  December 12, 2008

• Five Reasons You Must Visit The Path of Tea

  I love exploring this city and discovering new food-related things to talk about. Why, oh why then hadn't I discovered The Path of Tea, this treasure of a place, when it first opened three years ago? I'm going to dispense with the usual verbage and just list a few of the reasons why you should run, not walk, to check this place out. 1. Soothing music and a great ambience. 2. The best chocolate chip pistachio cranberry cookie in Houston.

  December 26, 2008

• Surprised, but Cool

  May 11, 1995

• Korean Corn Tea: As Bad As It Sounds

  My favorite lunchtime stop during the week is Super H Mart, the enormous Korean grocery store / food court that occupies an old Flagship Randall's off Bingle and I-10. Not only do they serve up some mean kimchi fried rice and bulgogi in the food court, you can always be sure to stumble across some new and fascinating product in their aisles. Most of the time, the food products are delicious and I come away a better person, enlightened on yet another aspect of foreign cuisine and eager to share

  January 22, 2009

• The Texas Rose Rustlers

  March 14, 1996

• Tea Time

  June 6, 1996

• South of the Sabine

  December 5, 1996

• Dish

  November 6, 1997

• Dish

  July 2, 1998

• Hot Plate

  March 4, 1999

• Best Place to Buy Middle Eastern Groceries

  September 21, 2000

• “New Forms: Rethinking Crafts”

  Is it art? Is it kitsch? CAC says it’s both

  December 4, 2008

• Best Chinese Restaurant

  Chinese Café

  September 20, 2001

• Voice: Tastes Great, Less Filling

  The food at Voice in the Hotel Icon is fabulous. Too bad the place is such a rip.

  July 10, 2008

• “Houston’s History Is Well Marked and All Around You, Explore and Enjoy”

  May 15, 2008

• Feeling Lucky?

  Score big at the Lucky Pot noodle shop

  January 2, 2003

• Sandy's Produce Market

  One healthy meal at Sandy's Produce Market will wipe away all of your high-cholesterol sins

  July 19, 2007

• Mak Chin

  A Spot of Cheesecake?

  June 21, 2007

• Two Faces of Mak Chin's

  A new pan-Asian restaurant on Shepherd has a split personality

  February 1, 2007

• PESCE'S

  LONG ISLAND ICED TEA

  December 28, 2006

• About a Beast

  Ruminations on irony, Maidenhood and fraternity

  April 20, 2006

• Hello, Yum Yum

  A new Asian diner brings dinnertime dim sum to the Inner Loop

  August 25, 2005

• All Right, We Give Up

  Just who the hell is showing at Aerosol Warfare Gallery?

  August 11, 2005

• Best Chichi Sundries

  Sloan/Hall

  September 25, 2003

• Food Fitness Center

  Tofu comes with 'tude at the vegetarians' sterile Soya Cafe

  July 31, 2003

• Taiwan's Tapioca Attack

  Bubble tea goes mainstream

  January 30, 2003

• Fish Tales

  St. Pete's Dancing Marlin's Long Island Iced Tea

  October 17, 2002

• Best Place to Buy Roses

  Buchanan's Native Plants

  September 26, 2002

• Best Manicure/Pedicure

  Instyle Nails

  September 26, 2002

• Best Tea Time

  "255-0+Tea"

  September 26, 2002

• Best Salvadoran Restaurant

  Variedades

  September 20, 2001

• Best Jerk Chicken

  Reggae Hut

  September 20, 2001

• Best Lemonade

  Barnaby's Cafe

  September 21, 2000

• Best Curried Goat

  Sheshahnen

  September 21, 2000

• Recession Snacking: Chinese Tea Eggs

  Photo by Nikki MetzgarStewed in black tea, soy sauce and spices, Chinese tea eggs are ideal as snacks or placed on top of a bed of noodles. The flavor is savory and a little bit salty. The shells are gently cracked before the eggs are steeped in the marinade, leaving brown marbling on the egg white. At 30 cents an egg, just about anyone can afford several. Tea eggs are sometimes mistakenly called soy sauce eggs, which are entirely brown instead of marbled, because their shells are taken off co

  May 26, 2009

• Iranian Cuisine at Darband Shish Kabob

  Photo by J.C. ReidOne of the oldest and most well-known Iranian restaurants in Houston is Darband Shish Kabob on Hillcroft between Westpark and Harwin. Darband is a counter-service restaurant that serves inexpensive Iranian fast-food dishes. It's located in a neighborhood teeming with ethnic restaurants and shops that mainly cater to Houston's Middle Eastern and South Asian community. On a recent weekday lunch visit, Darband's spartan dining room was filled with diners of Persian and Middle East

  June 30, 2009

• Late Night Scene: Teahouse

  Photo by Sarah RufkaEven 15 minutes before its midnight closing, Teahouse on Shepherd has nary an empty table. One would think a tired employee would grimace at anyone new walking in the door, but the guy on duty is surprisingly friendly. Someone uninitiated to the bubble tea scene could easily waste these last few minutes looking over the menu, which has more than 100 offerings, from lemon kumquat dried plum black tea (#151) to peppermint honey green tea (#66). Luckily, the top sellers are high

  July 6, 2009

• Artisan Teas from John Harney

  Photo by Robb Walsh​Whereas English Breakfast Tea is usually a blend of Assam and Ceylon, with a little Keemun added to the more expensive versions, Harney & Sons English Breakfast is made with all Keemun tea. The flavor is clean and bright, with a fruity aroma. What a treat this is in the morning. I ended up drinking the last of it without any milk. Harney & Sons is served at the St. Regis Hotel in Houston -- in fact, the St. Regis has its own blend. The Waldorf-Astoria in New York has

  August 26, 2009

• Meyerland's Secret Lunch Sandwich

  ​On a trip through Meyerland recently we decided to grab some milk tea from a quaint café called Fioza (9002 Chimney Rock). This is more of a high school coffee hangout at night, but we ended up here at lunch time, and lo and behold, people were eating sandwiches. Not just regular sandwiches, these panini were packed with garden herbs, chicken, provolone and pesto, and quite delightful. Not overly cheesy and exceptional crispy, these guys could hang with our favorite flatbreads closer in

  November 5, 2009

• Where You @?

  ​South Houston is home to one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Houston, Sagemont. There is a dense population of Vietnamese in this area, and as a result, a fantastic selection of great Asian food. T@pioca is a little Vietnamese banh mi, yogurt, and bubble tea dive on Fuqua and Sabo that's a good example of a quality small business. The bubble tea drinks are great -- we ordered jasmine milk tea and coffee milk tea with half sugar (they will know). We also ended up trying T@

  November 12, 2009