It's great that there's a forum to share discoveries - say if you find a tiny tea shop in Devon with a gluten-free scone, now people can know about it".
After several disappointing meals, I happened upon a charming spot, Mei Ko Kaku, a tiny tea salon with an adjacent shop.
To that end, Temptation Tea House, tucked in a tiny alley off South Moger Avenue, is a place worth discovering.
"The national love for the King," I said to my guide Dorji, as we sat in a tiny restaurant and sipped a traditional butter tea made from yak milk, salt and butter in the shadows of Thimpu's Royal Palace.
It has become customary at many Chinese restaurants in Connecticut, especially the hyphenated ones (Chinese-Japanese, Chinese-Pan Asian) to serve tea only on request, and usually in a tiny pot at an exaggerated price, sometimes -- gasp! -- with tea bags.
Tucked among the tiny tea shops is Automat (right), a jazzy-looking American brasserie (33 Dover Street; 011 44 2011499 3011).
One local fund manager in Shanghai served his visitors from The Economist tea in leaky, plastic cups in a tiny windowless office.
This is more like something you might be served in a tiny square as part of a selection of petit fours, rather than savoured over a cup of tea or packed into a pannier.
I checked out the Central Bazaar, where I had lunch in a tiny hole-in-the-wall type place, eating delicious Fesenjan chicken in walnut and pomegranate sauce washed down with sweet tea.
