Morning Glory Transforms Into Aphrodite's Temple At Night

This Tuesday, July 3rd, Renee Boje officially opened the doors to her new aphrodisiac lounge, Aphrodite's Temple.

Not only is the Temple a fun place to pick up items like aphrodisiac juices, pleasure treats, blissful elyxirs, relaxing smoking blends, dreaming herbs, erotic massage oils, tantric lover packages, enchanting books and more, but the location may be a pleasant surprise, too!

In a creative move, Bojee has partnered with another new kid on the block, Morning Glory Tea House, located at 1340 Commercial Drive.

Morning Glory Tea House is open Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm and

Aphrodite's Temple is open in the evenings, Tuesday - Saturday from 5pm

to 1am. Music gets going around 9pm.

Every night they have tantalizing entertainment and offer a variety of sultry live music, dj's, belly dancing and spoken word.

This Week's Line Up:

Wednesday, July 4th: Live Reefer Jazz Band, "The Tall Brothers" sharing

songs from their new cd

Thursday, July 5th: Sultry Music w/ Dj's Nova, Ariel & more * Visuals by Kinotropy * Healing Massages by Venus

Friday, July 6th: Sexy Tunes with Dj's Nova & Ariel * Visuals by surprise special guests

Saturday, July 7th: 777 Party - Dancefloor in full effect! Music with

Dj's Echopilot, Ariel & more

* Visuals by surprise special guests

The company also sets up luscious pleasure booths at parties and events.

Aphrodite’s online shop is:

http://www.aphrodites.ca

Spoken Word on Sundays

Guerrilla Poetry Takes Over Morning Glory Tea House

Warren Dean Fulton brought his street level Poetry reading to Commercial Drive's Morning Glory Tea House (1340 Commercial Drive) on Sunday featuring Trevor Spilchen with a special tribute to friend and fellow poet T. Paul Ste. Marie - who passed away suddenly Friday afternoon - by long time friend Susan Cormier.



Here are some pics of the event. Stay tuned for a video link of the poetry!

The Origin of High Tea

This article comes from Wikipedia

Tea in England was initially served in coffee houses. Due to high taxation it was expensive, and only affordable for the very wealthy. Despite the cost, tea drinking became widely popular, and tea sellers such as Thomas Twining started selling dry tea, so that ladies who could not frequent the coffee houses could enjoy it.

Tea was very valuable, and was kept by the lady of the house rather than in the care of the housekeeper. It was the lady of the house also who would serve the tea, in imitation of the Japanese tea ceremony.

The following is disputed, and may in fact be an urban legend:
Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford had the idea of asking her butler to bring tea, bread and butter to her chambers at 5 o'clock, as she found herself hungry before dinner, and soon started inviting her friends to join her in her sitting room for this new social event. Eventually, the beverage tea became generally affordable and the growing middle class imitated the rich and found that the meal tea was a very economical way of entertaining several friends without having to spend too much money, and afternoon tea quickly became the norm.

The Legendary Origins of Tea

The story of tea began in ancient China over 5,000 years ago. According to legend, Shen Nung, an early emperor was a skilled ruler, creative scientist and patron of the arts. His far-sighted edicts required, among other things, that all drinking water be boiled as a hygienic precaution. One summer day while visiting a distant region of his realm, he and the court stopped to rest. In accordance with his ruling, the servants began to boil water for the court to drink. Dried leaves from the near by bush fell into the boiling water, and a brown liquid was infused into the water. As a scientist, the Emperor was interested in the new liquid, drank some, and found it very refreshing. And so, according to legend, tea was created. (This myth maintains such a practical narrative, that many mythologists believe it may relate closely to the actual events, now lost in ancient history.)

Read the full story here...

Fun with google

Now that I Blog with google, mail with google, get daily search reports from google and monitor web traffic with google, I'm way more exposed to other google products. Today I was side tracked to a google labs project called google trends. It lets you track trends in search requests and news reporting. The best part is it lets you compare multiple searches. For instance, "green tea" is searched or reported way more than "black" or "oolong" tea. The bad news, "coffee" is searched more than "tea" but "love" is searched way more than "hate"

So, if you need an excuse to web out while enjoying tea at MG here's a guaranteed time waster. I'm going to go try "jesus" vs "mohammed"...

Busy Tea House Action!

Well, it's been a full week since I last had a chance to post. No wonder, the sunny weather has brought out Commercial's sun lovers in droves.

We've been busy icing teas and coming up with all kinds of fun blends. I'm especially pleased with our version of an African classic, Organic Bancha blended with Organic Spearmint make a naturally sweet and refreshing iced tea.

As promised we'll roll out our Summer Menu styles this weekend. Pizzas, which have been on their way out, are being replaced by crepes. We'll run three sweet and three savoury crepes each week as wel as random runs of fresh inspired fillings. Chilled soups will tie down the soup section, this week it's classic chilled borscht with dill yogurt, decadent gazpachos will make frequent appearances as we get heirloom tomatos and outdoor cucumbers. Vichysoise and rich bean soups will round out the suprisingly large range of chilled soup options. Oh! Maybe some dessert soups too!

Our experiments with new style bubble teas have yielded only one true winner so far: Spicy fresh ginger jelly which can be served in iced chais and Organic Lemonade. Speaking of Organic Lemonade we'll roll out four flavour choices this weekend with more to come. Check out the adult taste of Jamaican inspired lemonade served with fresh black pepper and piloncillo, a kind of pure cane sugar. (Yes, it's 100% Columbian cane!)