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On Wheels: Melange Tea Truck

POSTED: Monday, October 18, 2010, 7:35 PM

Filed Under: On Wheels | Openings | Tea

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Furnished with gauzy orange drapes and a 14th-century spice merchants stock worth of exotic loose-leaf tea, the new Melange Tea Cart (33rd and Market) looks less like a standard Philadelphia food truck than a gypsy tent pitched in a far-flung desert. Boris and Yumiko Ginsburgs are the nomadic healers inside this onetime hot dog cart; the couple and tea aficionados their blog posts have academic bibliographies! rolled out Melange on Drexels campus in time for the 2010 school year, brewing teas and tisanes that range from well-known (Darjeerling, chamomile, English breakfast) to evocative breeds like smoky Russian Caravan, spicy Lansang Souchong and the Korean roast corn tea known as Oksusu Cha. (Melange also has coffee fans covered with three roasts from South Streets Cafe LAube.) Follow Melange on Twitter, as the cart isnt always where its supposed to be like today. We walked all around Drexel on their tea trail and came up empty-handed. Being under-caffeinated makes us ornery, then we saw this picture of the Ginsburgss dog, Tank, on their website and melted. Awwww! You asked for more adorable dogs on Meal Ticket, you got it.

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After crash, Melange Tea Cart reopens today :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-11-01 10:21:56

[...] Tea Cart (33rd and Market), which we told you about recently, was involved on a crash on the 21st that left the truck in the repair shop and the mobile tea [...]

Michelle

Posted 2010-10-18 15:23:12

OMG that dog is adorable!

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