{"id":34,"date":"2019-03-22T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/?p=34"},"modified":"2019-03-22T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T16:16:46","slug":"the-mediterranean-sun-sleeps-in-marrakech-v1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Warm up with the family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>f all the places I\u2019ve ever done gongfu tea, my very favorite is my uncle\u2019s living room. A true tea connoisseur, he took a personal interest in educating me and my American partner about tea during our last visit to my hometown of Fuzhou.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then again, I am ruining the Tea Road by being a complete coffee addict. Coffee&nbsp;is the fuel to a hard long day followed by a harder, longer night. Coffee is the cheap addiction to jumpstart mornings, to quicken afternoons, and to prolong midnights. The character of coffee is attitude, a swagger in which priorities have been predetermined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moving to Glasgow, Scotland for studies, the first thing I learned from one of my Scottish flatmate who is an&nbsp;artistic hound of the city was that there is no way you will drink from Starbucks or Costa around here if you visited Frida&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VIBRANT, ZEALOUS, RELENTLESS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That summer, since I have been postponing on seeing who&#8217;s Frida and how good is her coffee, I decided to grab a bus and see with my own eyes (and taste) this mystique coffee shop she&#8217;s been telling me about. And there I am, talking with Frida, just in front of the coffee store, not even entering the place, and things are just delightful from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>SHE OPENED UP THE TEA BOX AND MY EYES MUST HAVE LIT UP. SHE SAW I LIKED HER CHINA&nbsp;COLLECTION, AND SHE VERY MUCH LIKED THIS FACT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She took pride in telling me how her mother keeps sending her different types and she asked me to choose the one we wanted. The first time I went with her favorite. The woman has some taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thereafter I would simply say \u201cSurprise me.\u201d She hated it when I said that. That made me want to say it even more. I think I was in her room all of 10 times if that. Yet it all mattered so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coffee&nbsp;is the fuel to a hard long day followed by a harder, longer night. Coffee is the cheap addiction to jumpstart mornings, to quicken afternoons, and to prolong midnights. The character of coffee is attitude, a swagger in which priorities have been predetermined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought about this. Then I thought about my childhood. It turns out that I rode the bus to school nearly 200 days a year for more than 10 years. That\u2019s 2,000 days. I don\u2019t remember most of those days. They blur together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the places I\u2019ve ever done gongfu tea, my very favorite is my uncle\u2019s living room. A true tea connoisseur, he took a personal interest in educating me and my American partner about tea during our last visit to my hometown of Fuzhou. 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