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Kizyr | আরা
@kaizyr.bsky.social
Your friendly trans Muslim socialist & queen of tea. চা দিবো?
🍵✒️🇧🇩🏳️‍⚧️ | she/her | English/日本語/español ok
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Hyderabadi Irani Chai

This takes about thirty minutes to take. Black tea, sugar, milk, condensed milk, and cardamom. Putting it together properly (and patiently) results in this rich delicious tea popular in Hyderabad.
January 4, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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"Happy New Year!"
"It's been a while, sorry, end of the year got a little packed..."
"Do anything fun on NYE?"
"Hey it'd be great to see you again, are you free any in the next week?"

You miss the shots you don't take, etc etc
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Happy New Years Eve! Showing some yerba mate and talking a bit about how I picked this up. Just a basic method for now: mate con palo, hot water, sugar optional. (Ordered from pampadirect.com -- not sponsored.)

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December 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Slow day at work. Just me, a cup of tea, and ten thousand lines of code. Enjoy this little inter-holiday period y'all.

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Kizyr | আরা on Instagram: "Daily #tea time Slow day at work. Just me, a cup of tea, and ten thousand lines of code. Enjoy this little inter-holiday period y'all."
13 likes, 2 comments - kiizyr on December 29, 2025: "Daily #tea time Slow day at work. Just me, a cup of tea, and ten thousand lines of code. Enjoy this little inter-holiday period y'all.".
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December 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Being Christmas Eve, made a bit of Jamaican sorrel for the evening.

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December 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Rooibos Hot Chocolate

Making hot chocolate directly from 95% dark chocolate, sugar, milk, and a pinch of salt, with rooibos during the brewing and whisking step.
December 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Saffron Darjeeling

Yes saffron is extremely expensive gram-for-gram, but considering how powerful each thread is, a small and affordable amount can last a long time. I use just three or four threads for a pot of Darjeeling and it's enough to enhance the flavor
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Persimmon Leaf

At Soricha, a local teahouse. Herbal, but tastes very much like a green tea with the smoothness of oolong.
December 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Spiced Thai Tea

Cinnamon and tea spices with Thai tea mix (black tea and vanilla) and a bit of milk and sugar. Thai tea does make for a good base.
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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It's really fun to experiment with spices to see what they add to tea. I'll add more than a few to my blends, but it's built on an understanding of what each ingredient adds that I think anyone can develop.

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Kizyr | আরা on Instagram: "Daily #tea time It's really fun to experiment with spices to see what they add to tea. I'll add more than a few to my blends, but it's built on an understanding of what eac...
In this Daily Tea Time video, we delve into the world of tea and spices, showing you how to create a unique blend by experimenting with various ingredients. From our experience, we'll take you through...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What's fun is accidentally revealing your age. Like
"What's your favorite Zelda game?"
"Legend of Zelda"
"Yeah, which one?"
"...The Legend of Zelda, the first one? I still remember how novel it was when it came out 😄. Took forever to figure out how to beat it."
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Improvised making some spiced tea last night. Managed to balance the cinnamon stick just right to get a bit of a fountain going.

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November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I love doing this. Scent has a direct throughline to memories. Train to distinguish between different aromas, learn your lover(s) scent so even when they're absent you can still feel them, build a new memory with an indescribable scent so the only way to describe it is with an emotion...
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Rosehip Verbena Honeysuckle blend

All ingredients native to this continent. Makes for a sweet and fruity non-caffeinated herbal tea.
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Smoked Rosemary Black

An adaptation of a coffee-based drink. Smoked rosemary and infused it into oat milk, turned it to foam, and used it to top some black dust tea. The smoked herb flavor is subtle but noticeable.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Cassia seed tea. Takes a while to brew right, not like instant ramyun where you just have to wait three minutes.

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Kizyr | আরা on Instagram: "Daily #tea time Cassia seed tea. Takes a while to brew right, not like instant ramyun where you just have to wait three minutes."
Experience the calming effects of Cassia seed tea and learn the art of brewing the perfect cup. Our step-by-step guide will walk you through the process, from selecting the right ingredients to the fi...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Nilgiri Winter Harvest

A black tea available from Pearl Fine Teas, this is one of my favorites and would be a mainstay if it were easier to come by. Lighter but smooth taste compared to most other black teas.
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Showing a trick for making any drink extra cozy for the fall: heat up oat milk with some cinnamon, foam it, pour it over a base of black tea, and finish with grated nutmeg. Tastes as good as a warm sweater on a crisp autumn day feels.

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November 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Black Vanilla Bean

Blend of black tea and vanilla from Pearl Fine Teas. To be honest, there is an odd bitter/medicinal note that throws off what would otherwise be great. Generally I've gotten very good blends from here but rarely there's a miss.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM