Pasadena Festival of Tea

The serene Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden celebrates the many forms of tea at this sixth-annual festival. Local vendors of Japanese, Chinese and Indian tea will be on hand to serve samples and share their knowledge on the ancient beverage; sip matcha, Taiwanese oolong, Chinese pu-erh and more in a custom-made tea tasting cup you can take home. (Unfortunately, tickets for the supplemental tea-ceremony demos in the garden’s Japanese Niko-an teahouse are already sold out.)