Tea

As the taste of Tie Kuan Yin is very distinctive, even overpowering, I don’t as yet have a dedicated zisha teapot for it. So, usually I would use a porcelain…

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The Royal Society of Chemistry has recently uploaded a news release on how to make the perfect cup…

A popular dish in Singapore is Bak Kut Teh (肉骨茶), literally “Bone Meat Tea”. No worries, the tea is not made from meat and bones. Meaty pork bones are combined…

There are four women of ancient China who were reknowned for their beauty. No true likenesses have been preserved and their beauty is recorded only in metaphor. Xī Shī 西施…

Japanese teas are now more popular and well-known internationally than they were ten or twenty years ago. People who frequent sushi restaurants are probably familiar with sencha (煎茶), which has…

The Taiwanese tea company, Tenren, maintain a line of teas called Cháwáng 茶王 or “King tea”.  These are ginseng-flavoured teas and the word “King” is used to mark them…

Tea originated in China and reached Japan between the 6th and 8th centuries, spreading to Tibet and the rest of Indochina soon afterwards. When the Chinese Embassy of Zhènghé 鄭和…

In his 1995 novel, High Fidelity, Nick Hornby write about a record store owner, Rob Fleming, who spends his life making up lists of “Top 5"s: the top 5 episodes…

Good tea has vintages in the same way that French wine does.  The flavour of the tea varies every year according to the rainfall and sunshine.  While the tea from…

There are many teas endowed with the names of flowers. Some are named so because that flower lends its fragrance to the tea leaves, such as Jasmine tea (香片 Xiāngpiàn…

The most famous floral scented tea is probably jasmine tea.  The Chinese name for jasmine tea is xiāng piàn 香片 “slivers of perfume”.  Tea leaves are placed beneath a silk…

Ginseng tea can refer to infusions made from sliced or powdered ginseng, or to tea leaves that are flavoured with ginseng (usually in powder form). Ginseng is popular in China…

Lu Yü 陸羽 introduces the medicinal uses of tea in the first chapter of the Tea Classic《茶經》：「茶之為用，味至寒，為飲最宜」 ‘As to the usage of the tea leaf, its flavour is exceedingly cooling…

Dong Ding is both the name of a tea, and the name of a mountain in the Nantou region of Taiwan, in Lugu (Deer Valley) (鹿谷). This is where the…

As with the other types of tea, there is a multitude of varieties for green tea. Green tea is more popular among the Japanese, but there are still some widely…

White tea has been known since at least the Tang dynasty, but it has always been rare. To make white tea, only the unopened leaf buds can be used, and…

Possibly the most famous tea from the Wuyi Mountains, from which hundreds of famous and popular teas originate, Da Hong Pao is one of the 四大名樅 or Four Great (Tea)…

This is a Taiwanese tea, and can be grown in a number of high mountains in Taiwan, such as Alishan 阿里山, Li Shan 梨山 (Pear Mountain) or Yu Shan 玉山…

In the Song Dynasty and before, tea was cooked, not steeped, and often the water used boiling the tea was already infused with various ingredients, such as orange peels, osmanthus…

If you have any old tea leaves which don’t taste so good anymore, don’t throw them away! Tea and tea leaves can be put to use in a variety of…

There is a fashion now of handmade tea balls with flowers sewn into the balls. Various blossoms can be used, but one of the most traditional and most popular is…

Bubble tea started out in Taiwan, and was sometimes called Boba because the term “Bo Ba” (波霸) is used to describe actresses who have very big breasts (”波” literally means…

My favourite kind of tea, it encompasses a broad range of flavours, colours, textures and names. Taiwan is famous for its wulongs, such as the Dongding (冻顶) , Alishan （阿里山）,…

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