For years, Portland restaurant industry vet Eric Arthur thought he hated tea. It took the nudging of a server at the Lan Su Chinese Garden teahouse to change his mind. “I would go to Lan Su all the time and just drink juice,” Arthur says. “One day, the server encouraged me to try a tea called Eight Treasure, a tisane made with three flowers, three fruits, a few herbs, and rock sugar. I loved it and drank that for a year, religiously.”
It was during one of those Lan Su visits that the Kauai native met Pearl Zhang, co-owner of the longstanding Red Robe Tea House. For ten years,
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