Teaware for Serving tea, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia

Teaware for Serving tea, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia in album Philadelphia

A lidded bowl with Chinese characters, hourglass tea timer, small glass jar on a plate, and two small teacups

Jun 16th, 2011, by Alex Zorach

Teaware at the Random Tea Room in Philadelphia. This photo shows a gaiwan, which is a lidded bowl, one of the traditional methods used to brew tea in China. Normally, a gaiwan would be considerably smaller; this is an unusually large gaiwan. The tea is brewed in the gaiwan and then poured into the glass jar, and then served in the small cups from there.

This photo also shows an hourglass timer which can be used to check the steeping time.