Gendy Alimurung

Dieters are just screwed in Vegas. Simply screwed. Which is strange, because there are so many gorgeous women in breathtakingly short sundresses milling about in Sin City. I couldn't figure out their secret until I saw several of them going nuts over these Le Patissier Towel Cakes. These aren't cakes......

Las Vegas is the city where crustaceans go to die. Apart from the copious amounts of tea I drank this past weekend at the World Tea Expo at Mandalay Bay (see Squid Ink for the dispatches), I also ate lots of seafood. The populace at large, in fact, seems to......

Matcha is a seriously big deal these days in the tea world. Matcha is finely ground powdered green tea with super-antioxidant properties. If you read some of the literature online, you'd think matcha's goodness is analogous to the second coming of Christ. Traditionally, it is used in Japanese tea ceremonies......

Hey, want some free chicken? Oprah is giving out a coupon for two free pieces of KFC grilled chicken on her website today until 11:59 pm CST, which is until 10 pm our time here in Los Angeles. The chicken comes with two individual sides and a biscuit. You have......

The World's Largest Chocolate Fountain is located beside the Jean-Philippe Maury Patissier in one of the meandering, mazelike corridors of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, where I stayed for the final night of the World Tea Championships. The fountain is certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. It......

Tea sandwiches are appealing to three types of people: (1) old fashioned biddies, (2) people on diets who believe that the tea sandwich's smallness nullifies its caloric impact, as if you can "sneak the food by" your esophagus--these are the same people who cut food into miniscule pieces on the......

The Hario Chaor Tea Maker snagged the "Best New Product" award at the World Tea Expo this weekend. Sungarden Tea company is the official North American exporter of Hario heat resistant glassware. The dapper Japanese gentleman demonstrating the winning product at their booth in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center was......

Here's a tea drink you might be seeing soon at your local fancy bar: the Genevrier Verte. Ordinarily, people would tend to make fun of you if you ordered tea at a bar -- unless it's a Long Island iced tea you're thirsty for. But fear no longer: Tea and......

Seen in Vegas, the city where nothing is too strange, too expensive, or too extravagant: Monorail Water. A sweet, crisp, light-bodied water, with notes of carbon monoxide, aluminum shavings, exhaust fume, and pit boss smoke. Pairs well with one-night-stands, financial ruin or unexpected windfall. In between tea tastings and tea......