Starbucks China – Tea & Spring 2010
Chinese are known tea drinkers. There are different types of tea for different season, ailment or what not. After their Chinese New Year and Valentines product, their new marketing products are geared towards cherry blossom and tea.
Full Leaf Brewed Tea
This morning at 10am, Starbucks offered for free a tall size tea drink to the first 100 customers. This enabled their regular customers to sample their new products such as Starbucks Oriental Beauty Oolong tea, Starbucks white mu dan tea and Bi Luo Chun Green Tea.
Each tea bag are uniquely packaged in a triangular shape. The tea bag can be used 12 times and contains full leaf tea. A box of 12 bags costs RMB 80. I tried the green tea and as usual, it’s bitter and needs a lot of sugar for me to drink it. Chinese drink different types of tea for different seasons. I’m not sure if Green tea is best for winter and white tea is best for summer or the other way around. Oolong tea is nice to mix with milk.
Starbucks Money Saving Tip
Do you like to drink Starbucks latte everyday or do you think it’s sinful to spend money on a latte when a lot of people are starving? A blogger at a Chinese website “Kai Xin Wang” wrote this Starbucks saving tip for those who are on a budget but can’t get enough of your daily dose of latte.
Here are the steps in creating a Starbucks latte for half the price:
- Bring your own Starbucks mug at your nearest Starbucks store and buy a cup of espresso.
- At the condiments counter, pour 3/4 cup of milk into your own mug.
- Pour your cup of espresso into your own mug.
- Stir your concoction and add necessary flavors like cinnamon or chocolate.
Easy right?! With only the price of an espresso, you’ll get your own cafe latte. I haven’t tried it yet but I might do so in the near future. Post your experience if you’ve tried the tip above and let other readers know if it worked to your satisfaction.
Now.. where did my Starbucks mug go?
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Starbucks China – Christmas 09 Edition
Christmas is in the air and so is it in Starbucks! A new store just opened up in my building and I’ve becoming a regular customer. Starbucks is a nice respite away from my office desk which has no view and is facing the wall.
This Christmas, Starbucks launched new sets of merchandise. From bears, candles, calendars, planners, mugs, tumblers, ornaments and discount card. As a newly opened store, customers who has a minimum purchase of RMB 88 will get a chance to win in their lucky draw. In the lucky draw, you stand a chance to win free drink coupon, free buy one get one coupon, mugs, tumblers and other old edition items. Out of the 4 times I’ve tried the lucky draw, I wasn’t lucky enough to win any mugs or tumblers. I’ve wont 3 buy one get one coupon and one free drink coupon.
If you’re friends with the manager of the store, they can also give you a receipt that you fill up with the code online to claim a free drink. Hmm… I think I’ve had 5 free drinks since the store opened in December 2. Cool eh?
New Blog Site!
Welcome to my new blog site! It’s still under construction and expect more changes in the future. After being blocked accessing my wordpress.com blog, I made a spontaneous decision of buying my own domain and hosting package.
Hopefully, this will prevent less downtime for my blog and will encourage me to write more. Also, I hope this will help me earn some money from advertisement, help people with their travel plans, starbucks collectors with their collections and know what’s good or new in Beijing.
I’ll be separating my blog to Beijing, travel, starbucks and this main one. Check out the links in the future. As I said, it’s still a work in progress. Stay tuned as well as I’ll be raffling off the iPod shuffle Red I won a couple of months back.
Love From Seoul!!!
Hello everyone! I’m here at an internet cafe, relaxing and waiting for my friend to come back from his date. In any case, Korea is pretty nice. Well, I haven’t been to all places yet. We went to Dongdaemun twice already and spent a lot of money. I’m quite happy with the pieces I’ve bought and I’m pretty sure I’ll be wearing it for quite some time. It’s not really cheap if you compare it to China but the quality and the design is much better.
Our hotel is located at Itaewon which is a tourist district with a lot of foreigners. Just outside the hotel, we have Coldstone Creamery! Sweet! It’s even cheaper than in the US. We also have two Starbucks coffee shop (Don & Gold got your Seoul & Korea Tumblers!), KFC, Mcdonalds, shopping area and bars. We’re in a pretty good location as both the airport bus and subway stop is just in front of the hotel. I haven’t seen any stars yet but we haven’t been to their Rodeo Drive.
We didn’t go to Lotte World yet as it’s quite far and pretty pricey. Also, we need the whole day there which we don’t have as we prefer to shop. Tomorrow, we’ll be going to Myaeong-dong, a palace, Seoul Tower and a Korean village. We haven’t had the chance to eat at a good Korean place so it’s a shame. Well.. I’m off for now. I’ll be writing from Beijing next time.
Starbucks Australia – Tumbler and Mugs
A friend of mine was sent to Sydney for training last January and as a fairy godmother to a small community of Starbucks collectors in the Philippines, I asked her to purchase some merchandise for me.
I told her to get me two Sydney tumblers and a Sydney and Melbourne mug. When she came back, she brought one Sydney tumbler and and Australian mug. *sigh* She mistakenly ordered the Hangzhou tumblers as well which I’m currently selling to interested buyers.
In any case, here are the pictures of the tumbler and mug she bought for educational purposes. 
