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Howdy Hookah friends!
Our friend Tatum sent us his ingenious lava lamp hookah mod and wow, how awesome is this? Send us your own hookah mods and if we like them, we’ll post them!

What do these two objects have in common? They can both become your vessel for a superior smoking experience!
In a previous [...]

People are always asking us, “What else besides water can I put in my hookah base to add a dimension of flavor and thickness to the smoke?” Great question, and it’s one that we here at hookah-shisha.com have toiled with for years. So without further ado here are the top ten things to add [...]

Welcome to our series on bowl loading and heat maintenance! In the previous blog, Bowl me over: tips on loading and tending a hookah bowl, we gave some general guidelines on loading a great bowl of shisha. In this one, we’ll discuss heat management and coal rotation made easy. By this point, [...]

Many ask us for the ’secret’ behind a great smoking hookah. As your resident hookah ninjas, we’re happy to pass down a hint, one of the most simple things you can do to improve your smoke. This age-old advice has been hidden deep in hookah lore, passed down from generation to generation of [...]

Does every bowl you smoke on your hookah taste like Double Apple…even though you’ve not had Double Apple in a week?  Does your hookah base have a “fill-to” line built up from the last 20 sessions?  If you answered yes, it is probably time to clean your hookah.  If you answered no, it is still [...]

Cloisonne, the delicate, decorative enamel adorning many Mya hookahs is an age-old production technique, most exquisitely applied by artisans in China and Tsarist-era Russia. We receive many questions about the construction of Mya’s Cloisonne shafts, and would like to take this time to explain a little more about them.
Of the most commonly encountered misconceptions [...]

Here’s a quick fact about Rotating Hookahs:
They make the perfect party hookah!  Why?  Have you ever had a group of people over at your place, sitting around your hookah, and it tips over because some klutz tugged on the hose a little too hard? And then the coals burn a hole in your [...]

Now that we’ve transitioned from the season of “Trick’or’treat” to the season of “treat and more treat”, we’re looking forward to spreading the HookahLove and cheer with our fellow smokers worldwide. In the spirit of the season, Clinton sends us pictures of an ingenious seasonal smoking device.

While we have worst case hookah scenarios with [...]

I like big bowls, and I cannot lie. You other smokers can’t deny when you sit down to a bowl with big taste, and clouds of smoke before your face, you get sprung. While single flavor bowls are fine for pedestrian smokers, the more adventurous like to mix it up by combining flavors [...]

Howdy Hookah fans,
We received this tip from a customer a while back, and it’s just so gosh-darn innovative that we had to share it with you.

The Economy has seen better days, people.  Banks are failing, the stock market is taking a bath, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.  That doesn’t mean you can’t stay [...]