Thursday, July 23, 2009
Posted by Miss Neddy at 11:18 PM | Comments (3) | Permalink
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If you have a fragrant tea you want to show off, especially a fragrant
wulong, here’s a trick that will impress your friends. Use hot water to warm
your teapot or gaiwan, and after pouring out the water, put in the tea
leaves - but don’t pour any water in yet!

Instead, cover the teapot or gaiwan and give it a good (but gentle!) shake.
Make sure the leaves inside roll around a little, picking up a bit of the
residual hot water and steam. Then quickly open and tilt the pot or gaiwan
to your friends and invite them to sniff the leaves. The fragrance of the
tea should almost jump out at them.