Here I try to share each tea, learn their history, enjoy their charming flavor, get healthy from tea’s benefits, and study how to make a perfect cup.
Do you remember what type of tea your first try is? I guess most people, just like me, is Tieguanyin tea. Its rich floral aroma is so charming, and the cool mouthfeel is very suitable for those who first try drinking tea. Plus, Tieguanyin got a broad market, you can easily buy it on the street […]
Among the Oolong tea lovers circle, you may often hear them talking about “Oriental Beauty.” Is there a wonderful woman from the east? Don’t be a mistake; actually, they are talking about a top-grade Oolong tea from Taiwan – Dongfang Meiren Tea. Stories About the Names Dongfang Meiren tea originated in Taiwan, which belongs to heavily fermented Oolong tea. […]
White peony is a flower name, but to tea lovers, that it’s a kind of awesome tea. Don’t be misunderstood, it’s not a herbal tea but a type of white tea from China. Due to the least processing, people thought it could bring more natural benefits than green tea, becoming more and more popular in recent years. And the white peony […]
In our impression, white tea may all like the Baihao Yinzhen, full of tender buds. The fuzz reflects shining silver light under the sun, noble and elegant. In the Fuding White Tea market, there also a kind that looks very ugly, but the yield over 50% of the total, and regarded as the best white tea for a […]
In Chinese history, dark tea took an important position. For a long time, dark tea had another more official name Border-selling Tea. Almost all the dark tea production and sales must be under government manager, mainly for exchanging the border regions folk’s horse. And Anhua Dark tea was the best of them. Anhua dark tea originated in Anhua, Hunan, one […]
Tibet is a province of China, also an important node of the Ancient Tea Horse Road. It is said that in a political marriage in the Tang Dynasty, Princess Wencheng brought three kinds of stuff to Tibet, tea, silk, and ink stationery. Among them, tea is the most popular. It indirectly led to developing the tea-horse trading and […]