Colleen and Carolyn travel to New York City to sit down for tea service and conversation with Ana at the In Pursuit of Tea headquarters. Together, they discuss tea's colonial ties to silver and opium and learn the intricacies of processing’s impact on flavor.

This interview also features Ethnomusicologist Danielle Maggio for a segment on Taiwanese Pop music, and the cultural dualism by political and social circumstances that have structured the island states.