Dear valued customers,

As Christmas holidays are coming, Teasme will be closed on the following days over the holiday period:

closed from Sunday 25/Dec/11

open on Monday 02/Jan/12

Thank you for your support. We wish you all a happy and safe holiday.

~ the teasme staff

We have cleaned it up. The 3 of us, Shih Yen, Kate and Stephanie are still here.

Eddie has already arrived half an hour early for work tonight, so we will be open until 7.30pm as usual.

Fingers crossed, no more shakes.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10775043

Free tasteing teas were prepared:

Purifying Herbal Tea for Detox

Jasmine Green Tea

Manuka leaf with Spear Mint Tea

Kong-Fu Oolong Tea – Golden Lily

And Teasme’s Flower Bloosome Tea.

The day turned out nice and sunny. It was a nice event.

Today, I made my morning from the sky.

I celebrated the season…

The taste is wonderful!

The fresh Honey Lemon Earl Grey & Honey Lemon Oolong are available in your cup.
We pick and wash our lemons. Cut and squeezed the fresh juice out before you. Say no worries this cold season because you are about to boost your vitamins.

Did also I mention this choice comes with a FREE serving of tapioca pearl or coconut jelly (optional)?
Have it hot or iced, you will be impressed!

These fresh produce are subject to availability.

Old Lotto ticket survives wash to win $250,000
NZ Lotteries, Fuseworks August 5, 2011, 3:08 pm

A four week old Lotto ticket stuffed in the pocket of its owner’s jeans, survived being washed in the washing machine before being checked and netting the winner $250,000.

The ticket was bought at Pak’n'Save Moorhouse in Christchurch, for the Lotto draw on 9th July and shared the First Division prize with tickets bought in Auckland, Waitakere and Hastings.

The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, says he found the ticket last weekend after he washed an old pair of jeans.

“I went through the wet pockets and realised I had washed a Lotto ticket in the jeans,” says the winner.

“I figured it wouldn’t be worth anything but I was heading to Countdown to buy my tea and thought I’d check it anyway,” he adds.

“It wouldn’t read in the self check scanner so I took it to the counter and the Lotto lady told me I had won $250,000,” he laughs.

“It was unbelievable, beautiful timing!,” he says.

The winner says he’s just been ‘getting by’ in the earthquake devastated city since February so this win is fantastic.
“I couldn’t even remember where or when I had bought the ticket and I’m so glad it survived the washing machine,” he adds.

I decided to put together a 5 min short film 3 days before the submission date. The script was written in the evening. Some Tobukai Karate members and Teasme Tea Shop members were contacted to participate. Most of the footage were shot the next day in the afternoon between 2 to 4.30pm. We used the evening and the next day editing the clips. However, we were notified by the organiser the submission day was to be extended for 4 weeks. So we used more time to fine tune the film and introduced a few more shots in. Filming is fun and we all had a blast making it. We hope you like it too.