Conceived as a place for aesthetic and intellectual fulfillment, the Japanese teahouse (chashitsu) is known for the simplicity of its design. Tea was a part of Zen monastic practice as early as the twelfth century, but it was not until the fifteenth...

(chaguan) Before 1949, teahouses were popular social and cultural places for people to pass the time. A teahouse where one enjoyed book-reading or storytelling was called a ‘book teahouse’ (shu chaguan); a house where one tasted only tea in...

A tea house or tearoom is a venue centered on drinking tea. Their function varies widely depending on the culture, and some cultures have a variety of distinct tea-centered houses or parlors that all qualify under the English language term "tea house"...

Hot Sichuan cooking spices up the suburbs SOMETIMES A GREAT DINING discovery is not a new restaurant or a new dish, but a new menu. A decade ago, while dining in Manhattan's Chinatown, I spotted several intriguing dishes coming out of the kitchen...

LINDY WASHBURN, Restaurant Reviewer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-04-1995 AT IVANGIE TEA HOUSE IN RIDGEWOOD By LINDY WASHBURN, Restaurant Reviewer Date: 08-04-1995, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late,...

In the climbing world, Apa Sherpa was at the peak. He has conquered Mount Everest 16 times, a record matched by no one, even reaching the 29,028-foot summit without oxygen on four of those trips."He is the Tiger Woods of climbing," friend Jerry Mika said.Now,...