After an evening spent hopping around town from happy hour to happier hour, I can't help but think, wouldn't it be so much easier if all I was looking for *was* tea?

I'd know just the places to go. Like Samovar Tea Lounge in San Francisco. They have green tea, white tea (I bought some loose leaf white tea to take home one day), black tea, red tea, they even have kosher tea! I was going to make a bad joke about being thankful because the one thing I know I'm *not* looking for is bacon in my tea, but I refrained. Yes, that is my idea of refraining.

Back to tea, if you haven't had Moroccan mint tea, you must taste this sweet exilir at some point in your life. The Persians are not to be outdone when it comes to tea AND love, it seems. I've never had Persian Love Tea exactly but I'm going to try this recipe!

And finally, for the tea adventurists among you, there is boba! I'm surprised that Wikipedia has an entry on boba but I guess they have an entry on everything. You can try to make your own (let me know how that goes) or you can just stop by any boba shop in the Sunset District or the Quickly shop on Castro and 17th. Yum.