Tea Tasting Returns at ORiEnTspiration!

Tea Tasting returns to ORiEnTspiration! Available everyday in our showroom, now come in and shop our wide selection of teas and talk teas with our knowledgable staff.

Are you interested in the healthy aspects of teas? Now is your chance to explore the world of ORiEnTspiration tea culture! Visit our showroom and personally experience some of China's favorites teas, complete with the rituals of the Chinese tea ceremony. Watch how the teacups are cleaned and the tea leaves are washed. Learn about the culture behind the ceremony, and watch as the tea steeps. Then, enjoy tasting of some of the most exquisite teas China has to offer while you shop for your favorite teas!

August 2009 Sampling of Teas:

Jasmine Mini Flowering Tea

Citron Green

Black Strawberry

Lemon Grass

Pu-erh Tea Cake

Our showroom is located in the Centre One Shopping Center, 5720 Capital Boulevard, Suite P, Raleigh, North Carolina 27616. For more information, please call (919) 846-0910, or log on to http://www.orientspiration.com/events/.

This is Evans!

If you have read our website closely, under the 'About us - ORiEnTstaff' section, there is someone named Evans. Yep, that's me. Who is me? I am the co-owner and co-founder of ORiEnTspiration. I am David's wife. I am a native Chinese who was born in Hong Kong. I am an artist. I am very much into culture. I am... Evans.

ORiEnTspiration is a vision that I have for a long time. Since the day it became reality, David and I put a lot of time and effort into building the business. As we are all trying to survive this economical hardship, my heart goes out to all of us - hard working Americans whom are holding onto our faith that we can still build that American dream no matter what the environment brings.

That being said, ORiEnTspiration keeps her promise on bringing customers the highest quality but very reasonable priced products; still directly imported from China, even though that means we are lowering our profit. I would like to take this chance to extend an invitation to customers whom are looking for great gifts, great price and great customer service.

New Merchandise On Its Way!

If you look closely, you may see ORiEnTspiration's container(on top near the end) as it moves across the Hong Kong harbor on its way to North Carolina!

With an arrival date of early September, this merchandise is just in time for the holiday season.

Over 15 brand new teas are making their way to the United States, as well as hundreds of new styles and colors of the most current and unique fashion trends out of the Orient. Be sure to look for the extra long silk scarves as they arrive.

For the gift giver, hundreds of new tea sets and accessories will be online and available for purchase just in time for the holidays. As well, several new neat wall decor items including clocks and lamps will make their way across the Pacific in time for Christmas!

Look for all of our new items as well as our current best sellers online at www.orientspiration.com.

At Peace

One of our family excursions during our time in Hong Kong was visiting the Hong Kong Wetland Wildlife Park.

This park is one of the 10 or so in the world, and it was a very peaceful time. The only thing one could hear was the birds chirping.

The park was designed to preserve the specialized wildlife and nature's creations while allowing visitors the opportunity to interact with the animals on the wetlands.

Does the Merchandise Ever End?

While at one of our favorite wholesale malls, I chuckled to myself as I looked down the 8 floors of the building full of vendors and wondered just how many of them are packed into one building. I estimated that each floor have about 125 vendors for a total of 1,000 vendors trying to sell their wares to the public.

What fascinating about these buildings are that they are catagorized by floor - one floor will have all jewelry vendors, one all kids, one floral accessories, one home decor, and so on. And although we have our Product Procurment Manager guiding us through, it wasn't real hard to want to go into each shop to see if something unique "catches" your eye! I mean, you could spend literally days in just this one buiding and not see everything if you did not know which vendors to go to and which one to stay away from.

I'm convinced that just like in the United States where we trade stories and opinons on which resturants are the best, the Chinese vendors spread the word amongst themselves as to which are the best, easiest to negotiate with and so on.