Hello, Ty long lost tea aficionado !
Loving that I haven"t checked your blog in years & was just thinking about LA and then decided to see what you were up too!
One of my good friends lived at Haight & Laguna & so I would always go to Samovar. I as well, had some very special times there. What a small world. That is really sad that it closed. I am sipping some itoen green tea as we speak, my favorite! I still have some unopened snazzy matcha ceremonial powder that I bought before leaving Japan. I probably should open that soon since it has been almost 13 year ;) Anyways sending you love from Chicago to Vancouver. So sad the my favorite Canadians on the Blackhawks are gone. Sayonara-Duncan Keith & Johnathan Toews.