Festival & Contest Participation

* Rachana Khan

Festival & Contest Participation

This is where I will display all of the fun badges and awards I receive while participating in the fun events at AW.

February 22 , 2008

Lunar Festival 2008

Posted at 19:00 EST

Here we go again with my favorite AW Festival! Here's my first souvenir:

I also got this lovely plaque:

AND, some of my own delicious tea!

:: I prefer Yuja Cha Tea ::

Yuja Cha is a Korean traditional tea made from thinly sliced yuja (a kind of citrus fruit), with its peel left on, and flavored with honey and sugar.

The yuja fruit itself has a strong, sour and bitter taste, so Korean people preserve and sweeten it for making tea. The ingredients are combined with very hot water to make a delicious and uplifting tea. Yuja cha is used as an herbal remedy for the common cold and similar winter illnesses.

OK - I just retook that quiz up there and ended up with this - guess I'm different now!

February 22 , 2007

Lunar Festival 2007

Posted at 01:00 EST

Come see the tea ceremony at:

It's the year of the pig!

I took Feiyan's quiz!

October 24 , 2006

Goldfest 2006

Posted at 11:00 EST

I visited Shanti's Spice Shop and it was EXTRAORDINARY! I took the quiz and got this (I got 70% -- not too bad):

And I also bought some spices and got this:

I went shopping around Edo, and here's whatI ended up with:

Some of my own tea*lol*

:: I prefer Jasmine Tea ::

Jasmine tea hails from the Fujian province of China. It is infused with the delicate scent of the night-blooming jasmine flowers which are harvested during the day and stored in a cool place until night.

During the night, the flowers bloom with full fragrance. They are, then, layered over the tea leaves during the scenting process. The quality of Jasmine tea is determined by the quality of green tea used as its base and the effectiveness of the scenting. Jasmine teas are very pleasing with strong-tasting foods and are both soothing and refreshing.

And this lovely plaque from Aria's Woodblack Shop

A lovely pair of fans from Tsu's Fan Shop:

This kimono, which matches my home and HAPPENS to be magical!

And a sweet Mandarin Duck for the pond in the garden:

It's been a great day of shopping in Edo!

January 29 , 2006

Lunar Festival 2006

Posted at 19:00 EST

I'm SO excited to have won 3rd place in the New Year, New Home contest! Here's my lovely plaque:

And here's my entry:

Flower Bower

Shibori Murasaka made some lovely plaques to express our inner oriental. I chose these two:

This was the result I got from the What Oriental are You Quiz:

A beautiful plaque from the Lunar Festival 2006 Manga Kissaten:

A WONDERFUL tour:

I also took this tour -- which was also quite informative and entertaining, though it wasn't associated with this festival. *s*

Wow! We really know how to do things up right, here in the Orient! Here's the first of my participation plaques (my Chinese sign is the dog, apparently):