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Chris Pillai
Founder, Teafy
Buying guides
Chris founded Teafy to bring Japanese tea from the farm to Australian cups with nothing lost on the way. He writes the buying guides: prices, labels, and what is worth paying for.
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Our team
The people behind
every Teafy guide.
Every guide on Teafy is written by a named person, and each one writes what they know best: buying, the field, brewing, recipes, the evidence and the everyday questions.
6writers
26guides
1family farm in Shizuoka
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Hiro Okumura
Tea farmer, Teafy
From the field
Hiro is a third generation Japanese tea farmer. He writes about the field: seasons, cultivars, shade and everything that happens to a leaf before it becomes tea.
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Eric Huang
Tea instructor, Teafy
Brewing lessons
Eric is a Taiwanese tea instructor who teaches brewing technique. He writes lessons you can follow at the bench: ratios, temperatures, timing and the hand.
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Melissa Tzountzourkas
Tea taster in training, Teafy
Recipes
Melissa is training as a Teafy tea taster and has three years of tasting behind her. She writes the Teafy recipes: drinks and bakes that work in a normal Australian kitchen, judged for flavour, colour and fuss.
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Arabella L.
Evidence guides, Teafy
Evidence guides
Arabella writes the Teafy evidence guides. She reads the trials and the official tables, grades how strong the evidence is, and says plainly what it does and does not show.
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Lauren Pollock
Operations manager, Teafy
Explainers and comparisons
Lauren is the operations manager at Teafy. She writes the explainers and comparisons, the side by side pages that settle a question in a few minutes.
How we write
Our rules for
every guide.
- A named author on every guide, so you know who is talking.
- Sources listed at the end of each guide, so you can check the facts yourself.
- Health guides tell you to check with your GP or an Accredited Practising Dietitian. We are tea people, not doctors.
- When a fact changes, we update the guide and show the date it changed.