Category: General
-
Tea Master
The PieMan is now a Tea Master. What has been an exploration into all things “Tea” over the past 3+ years has now culminated in graduation from the Dilmah School of Tea, Certified Tea Master Certificate program. Starting off with the ITA Tea Sommelier Milestone Program back in 2019, and extensively focusing on Chinese Tea,…
-
Introducing…
In last 3-4 months there have been many activities afoot at Vila Tempest. We are still based in Shanghai but have relocated to a smaller location. This has meant we’ve had to downsize Life in many ways. However, this has opened up some new possibilities to explore. Allow me to introduce to you some new…
-
Technical Difficulties
Apologies to one and all. Due to Technical Difficulties our site went offline in August, but we only became cognisant of that fact just the other day and have been busy working behind the scenes to get back online. The Internet is becoming more and more a weird, and wild place, in which to have…
-
The PieMan is Back!
Aussie pie connoisseurs rejoice! The PieMan is back! and you can find him in residence in Shanghai. This summer we will be exploring a whole new world of pie fillings, to bring to you the best pies on offer, to all you true pie connoisseurs, in Shanghai. Villa Tempest Pies are bespoke, hand made on…
-
Happy New Year
To You and Yours, from Us and Ours, we wish you all the very best for the coming Year, 2019. We hope that your goals and dreams, this year, amount to being everything you hope for. Over the coming months we hope to resolve grittiness issues, with our stone flour mills; to successfully make, “On…
-
WELL, WE’VE HAD QUITE THE ROCKY ROAD…
In the last few years we seem to run foul of attempts to Stop Fake News, Control Anonymous Postings, and other such socially-encouraged, vigilante justice like Scroll-by (drive by) Social Network Assassination. My Facebook Profile has been down since February 2016, LinkedIn, and Xing, in quick succession shortly after that, and more recently my Twitter…